Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
About the role
- Maintain and upgrade code for existing cracking heater model
- Prepare software for integration with online applications
- Liaison with optimization and process control application groups
- Project management of modeling projects
- Participation in sales efforts and marketing for modeling projects
- Maintain and improve graphical user interface for existing cracking heater model
- Lead execution of projects to deliver models to licensees (configure, modify, tune, test, document, train, install)
- Debug technical issues and address software defects and change requests
- Support existing licensees with maintenance and upgrades over the lifecycle of their existing models
- Maintain software records and releases
- Coordinate with process design teams to maintain model consistent with latest technical developments
Requirements
- B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering (minimum); M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering preferred
- 10 years of work experience in ethylene process engineering
- Minimum 5+ years programming experience with Fortran 77, Visual Basic, C++, Python
- Experience coding process simulation models and user interfaces
- Solid working knowledge of kinetics, heat transfer, and chemical process design
- Strong background in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, reaction kinetics
- Ability to translate and maintain requirements into functioning code
- Self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Highly developed professional interpersonal skills to enable working with multiple nationalities and cultures
- Ability to represent the Company in a professional and respected manner
- Ability to adapt to flexible/changing situations and work through them successfully
- Ability to work effectively independently as well as collaboratively as part of a multi-functional team
- Ability and willingness to travel (domestic and international, approximately 5%)