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Job Description
Job Duties
- Serves as a servant leader, developing engineers through mentorship, coaching, and performance feedback.
- Builds and sustains a strong team culture grounded in psychological safety, technical excellence, accountability, and ownership — empowering engineers to raise concerns, challenge assumptions, and continuously improve.
- Serves as a high‑energy, visible refinery leader, setting vision, expectations, and direction for the Process Engineering and Process Control function in support of safe, reliable, and high‑value operations.
- Partners closely with operations and site leadership, translating complex technical risk into clear direction that teams can execute safely and effectively.
- Establishes priorities, assigning work, setting performance standards, and holding the team accountable for results aligned with refinery objectives.
- Develops employee succession plans by leading hiring, onboarding, training, competency development, and performance management.
- Acts as a refinery‑level technical authority through supervision and oversight, ensuring high‑quality engineering outcomes across Process Safety Management.
- Provides decisive supervisory leadership during unplanned events and outages by guiding team response, setting decision frameworks, ensuring appropriate resourcing, and reinforcing disciplined, risk‑based decision making.
- Oversees unit performance monitoring, process optimization, and energy efficiency efforts, ensuring engineering insights are translated into clear recommendations and measurable business value.
- Sets governance and expectations for process control activities, including alarm management, automation, and digital initiatives, ensuring alignment with process intent and operational goals.
- Sponsors and champions refinery initiatives, such as: Safe Operating Limits (SOL), Pressure Safety Valve (PSV) programs, Energy reduction efforts, Value creation initiatives, Corrosion and fouling, etc.
- Provides T/A support from a Process Engineering perspective for each pant turnaround.
Special assignments or tasks assigned to the employee by their superior, as determined from time to time in their sole and complete discretion.
