Associate Engineer – Plant
Nutrien Ag Solutions LAS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Greenville • Mississippi • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Continuously evaluate equipment, process operations and controls to ensure personnel safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
- Work closely with all disciplines, troubleshooting problems, to ensure plant processes are aligned to provide maximum output levels and efficiencies.
- Optimize production by conducting tests, monitoring performances, and compiling de-bottleneck studies to identify cost saving opportunities.
- Design plant and equipment configurations to be readily adapted to suit the product ranges and the process technologies involved, taking safety, environmental and economic aspects into account.
- Provide control system designs, specifications, process control parameters, system testing, and start-up assistance, as required.
- Maintain engineering records including creating and modifying Process & Instrumentation Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, and supporting development of operations and maintenance standard operating procedures.
- Responsible for Plant’s PSM program and associated elements of assurance for compliance to the standard.
- Install and commission new equipment, including monitoring developments and troubleshooting as well as managing contractors and documenting process changes and additions.
- Support new product development from trial through to commercialization and improving production lines.
- Keep abreast of current engineering trends, practices, developments, and regulatory changes, which could impact processes and products.
- Complete special projects as needed and any other tasks assigned to support business continuity and growth.
- Responsible for the planning and execution of the 5yr capital plan for the facility and streamlining operations toward efficient operation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering; experience in lieu of education may be considered.
- Experience with 2D CAD programs such as AutoCAD is desired.
- Strong project management and contractor management skills.
- Strong analytical skills, skilled in application of statistics and data analysis.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Works well independently and in a team setting with excellent time management and organization skills.
- Mechanically inclined, basic knowledge of electrical systems, and experience with PLC logic and programming processes and capabilities with any of the following PLCs: Allen Bradley, Modicon, GE Fanuc a plus.
- Knowledge of various types of packaging equipment, pump and pipe sizing, batch processing equipment and processes preferred.
- Well rounded and detail oriented with the ability to support future goals of the facility.
Benefits
- Nutrien is an equal opportunity employer
- We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
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Hard skills
process control2D CADPLC programmingdata analysisstatistical analysisplant designequipment configurationprocess optimizationsafety complianceenvironmental stewardship
Soft skills
project managementcontractor managementanalytical skillspresentation skillstime managementorganizational skillsteamworkindependencedetail orientedproblem solving