Process Engineer at Memphis

Job Description

• Provides technical expertise for a particular area of the refinery to enable the most optimum performance that will meet the companys economic, environmental and safety objectives.
• Performs all routine engineering calculations (i.e. mass balances, energy balances, conversion calculations).
• Gathers, analyzes, interprets, acts upon, and passes on all pertinent unit operations data.
• Generates and maintains an informational database on all pertinent process variables and updating PFDs and P&IDs.
• Makes proactive recommendations for improving unit yields and/or optimizing energy consumption.
• Supports T/A activities by performing equipment inspections and making necessary recommendations for corrections and or improvements.
• Ensures that the Planning Department is aware of all current constraints.
• Initiates and justifies new projects, additional monitoring and other improvements to the unit.
• Aware of all safety, health, and environmental issues that impact the unit, the refinery and all personnel.
  

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering required.
• A minimum of three years specific related experience in a refining or petroleum industry required.
  

Relocation assistance is available.

Position level and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and esperience.

About Valero

Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas, and through its subsidiaries is the worlds largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer. Valero supplies fuel and products that improve peoples lives with 16 refineries and 10 ethanol plants stretching from the U.S. West and Gulf coasts to Canada, United Kingdom, and the Caribbean. Well-positioned pipelines and terminals allow Valero to deliver premium-quality clean fuels quickly, responsibly, and efficiently. Our diversified product slate supports dozens of industries, from health care and plastics to transportation, beauty products, and manufacturing.

Valeros employees are the heart of its success, and there is a reason why the company is an employer of choice in the fuels manufacturing and marketing industry. Its not just the excellent benefits package, or the opportunities for personal growth, its also the caring and committed culture of the organization that makes everyone feel like theyre truly part of a team.

About the Memphis Refinery

The Valero Memphis Refinery originally was constructed in 1941 with numerous expansions to its present rated capacity of 195,000 barrels per day (BPD) of light, low-sulfur crude oil. Since the refinerys acquisition in 2005, Valero has invested more than $245 million upgrading it to a modern and highly efficient facility. Crude oil is supplied to the refinery through the Capline Pipeline and can also be transported, along with other feedstocks, by barge. Products primarily are distributed via truck-loading racks at three product terminals, barges, and a pipeline directly to the Memphis airport.

Valero is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Country: USA, State: Tennessee, City: Memphis, Company: Valero Energy.