Production Engineer Utilities

About the Role

S-Chem is seeking a Production Engineer Utilities to join its team in Al Jubail, Eastern Province. This full-time role focuses on providing technical support for process control and automation to optimize plant operations, ensuring compliance with EHS system requirements. The position involves monitoring key plant parameters, managing small changes, and contributing to continuous improvement within the unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and process expertise to achieve established targets and objectives, enhancing process capability, efficiency, yield, and quality within the production budget.
• Identify debottlenecking opportunities and profit improvements in coordination with licensing and technical support groups.
• Manage chemical, catalyst, and additive processes, including creating annual consumption projections, updating Bills of Material (BOMs), tracking consumption trends, and outlining delivery schedules to maintain minimum inventories.
• Support projects during plant commissioning and turnaround activities.
• Assist in troubleshooting activities resulting from changes in process operations or new production plant projects.
• Recommend changes and improvements to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and work methods for specific production areas and processes.
• Lead the Management of Change (MOC) process for unit-specific changes and support other disciplines in executing MOCs related to the unit.
• Prepare operating and capital expense budgets, and provide support for capital projects as a liaison between plant project engineering and operations.
• Monitor cost and cost allocations monthly to ensure compliance with budgeted projections.
• Coordinate with Turnaround (T/A) planning to assist in developing shutdown and startup activities related to operational tasks to support T/A objectives.
• Determine product specifications in collaboration with relevant stakeholders to meet customer requirements and standards. Respond to customer complaints, providing detailed root cause analysis and corrective actions, and inputting information into the Customer Feedback System (CFS).
• Participate in HAZOP/LOPA reviews.
• Adhere strictly to established environmental, health, safety, and quality policies and procedures to ensure employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/services, and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Undertake accountabilities in the operational excellence process as outlined in the schedule of responsibilities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement processes for the assigned area.
• Perform any other relevant tasks as directed by the Manager Operations.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience in a production engineering role, preferably within the utilities sector of a manufacturing or chemical plant environment.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Al Jubail, Eastern Province. The role requires active participation in plant operations and coordination with various technical and operational teams.