Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement projects which improve the profitability, operability, reliability, safety, and environmental performance of the Hanging Rock Plant in accordance with the AmSty Business Plan and plant specific objectives.
- Develop and prioritize the plant’s 5-year capital plan.
- Work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Logistics, EH&S, and Quality to understand improvement opportunities across these functional areas.
- Manage the plant’s Value Creation program.
- Utilize plant, other AmSty resources, and third parties to ensure a detailed scope of work is developed for all projects and project alternatives and costs are thoroughly evaluated and agreed upon by key stakeholders.
- Prepare bid specifications, evaluate bids, and select engineering and construction contractors.
- Monitor/manage the design and execution of projects to ensure that they are engineered and built according to key project plans and company standards.
- Monitor/control the cost and timing of projects to keep expenditures and schedules within the limits authorized by management.
- Manage the start-up of projects and project closure activities in a safe and timely manner so that the project benefits can be fully realized.
- Adhere to the Management of Change process and monitor changes associated with project work to assure desired results are occurring
- Provide turnaround support, troubleshooting and engineering analysis as required.
- Serve as the plant representative on the AmSty Improvement Engineers’ network.
- Provide root cause investigation technical support as needed.
- Participate in plant audits, including Tech Center, ESRA, RC-PHA, OEMS, and FM Global.
- Perform other duties as assigned or needed.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 3+ years of experience in project management and execution. Experience in a chemical processing or refinery environment a plus.
- Strong commitment to personal safety.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Broad generalized knowledge of chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control engineering. Broad generalized knowledge of industry design codes, standards, and practices.
- Broad generalized knowledge of personnel safety, process safety, and environmental principles / regulations.
- Project management and administrative skills necessary to plan, organize, coordinate, and control the development and execution of a project – including cost and schedule control.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Knowledge of a structured project management or project development and execution process a plus.
- Excellent technical and problem solving skills to identify alternatives to challenges presented and select the most appropriate solution with minimal guidance or precedence.
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What We Do
AmSty is a leading integrated producer of polystyrene and styrene monomer, offering solutions and services to customers in a variety of markets throughout the Americas. AmSty is at the forefront of sustainability innovation and circular recycling. The company is a joint venture equally owned by Trinseo LLC and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP.
A combination of the second largest polystyrene producer in the Americas and the third largest styrene producer in the Americas, AmSty brings great advantages to its customers.
By optimizing our production, marketing and supply chain capability, focusing on safe production processes and leveraging state-of-art technologies, we have developed a strategy for success. AmSty embraces the ideas, attitudes and behaviors that have earned great results and respect for our parent companies. We apply these winning principles in our business model.
Safety is paramount to our success at AmSty and it is a core focus in everything that we do. We strive daily for zero injuries and incidents. AmSty values environmental stewardship, corporate responsibility and community involvement
