PEMEX Deer Park is a highly complex refinery located 18 miles east of Houston in Deer Park, TX, and is a part of the PEMEX group which is a fully integrated oil company in the Americas, working across the entire value chain: exploration, production, industrial processing/refining, logistics and marketing. PEMEX Deer Park provides a diverse and inclusive work environment that employs approximately 1000 employees with another 1200 contractors on site. The refinery’s rated capacity is 340,000 barrels per day and has the feed flexibility to process multiple grades of crudes to produce the high-quality transportation fuels the world needs. The PEMEX Deer Park site is co-located with other 3rd party chemical facilities allowing for further integration and optimization of the refinery and its products. We set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors and offer challenging and fulfilling job opportunities in a number of fields. We take great pride in our ability to ensure the health and safety of our workers and the environment while being a good neighbor and have a positive impact on the local community where we work.

BENEFITS:
We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

Job Purpose

The Operations Support Engineer (OSE) is accountable for technical support and assurance to one or more Production Units within the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery. This position is seen as a technical development role with responsibility for monitoring process units to operate in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner. The role will work in multi-disciplinary teams and will be required to manage conflicting priorities effectively through multiple Production Areas and teams. The OSE assignment offers a chance to cultivate expertise in manufacturing process technology, technical safety, and fundamental process engineering skills.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Provide proactive technical monitoring and support to Production Units to ensure units operate safely and reliably while generating profit for the business.
• Work closely with other Operations Support Engineers (OSEs) to provide technical support to daily operations, small projects, and margin initiatives.
• Support work scope development and field execution for process equipment during turnarounds.
• Provide guidance to Operations in proposing appropriate operating targets for the process units and systems to meet established feed and product specifications.
• Provide technical support and execute process changes via the Management of Change (MOC) process to ensure any hazards associated with design changes to process units are adequately mitigated.
• Identify, communicate, and escalate issues to the appropriate technical and operations personnel. Assist in evaluation of complex technical or operational problems.
• Perform engineering analyses (e.g. process modelling, catalyst evaluation, relief design calculations, etc.) as needed.
• Provide technical support for special operation activities (e.g., test runs, decontamination, startups, shutdowns).
• Seek to understand the root cause of process issues and mitigate findings with robust solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Provide process engineering guidance in PHAs and incident investigations within assigned areas.
• Provide input and support to long-term strategy planning for process units and refinery systems.
• Provide support to multidiscipline teams addressing cross-organizational issues and opportunities.

Physical requirements:

· Walking distance of up to a mile.

· Climbing portable and vessel ladders to elevations over 100 feet.

· 15-25% of work is performed in an outside petrochemical manufacturing environment.

· Occasionally extended work hours during planned and unplanned events.

Experience requirements:

· Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis.

· Bachelor of Science degree required (preferred discipline Chemical Engineering).

· 1-5 years of process engineering experience working in oil and gas or petrochemical industry.

· An understanding of refinery processes and operations preferred.

· Familiarity with process simulation software is preferred (e.g. Petro-SIM, ProMax, HYSYS).

· Ability to effectively manage competing priorities.

· Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.