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About the position:
The Lower Carbon Process Engineer is part of the Process Engineering and Automation team within Chevron’s ENGINE Center and provides technical consulting to improve Chevron’s carbon and energy performance throughout the asset lifecycle.The team works with Business Units and Strategy groups to identify, evaluate, develop, and implement opportunities to scale brownfield projects in energy efficiency, process optimization, Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS), Hydrogen, flaring reduction, methane venting reduction, and renewable energy.The team collaborates with others to evaluate and deploy technologies in support of these goals.The team also develops and deploys energy management best practices, tools, and standards.
Key responsibilities:
Provide timely technical service consultation to operating assets and capital project teams supporting new asset development and/or operational issues in existing projects and assets.
Review and improve designs for operability, reliability, and ease of maintenance
Support early phase project design execution by developing process documents such as heat and material balances and process datasheets
Develop and maintain detailed process simulation models to evaluate design and operating scenarios (Hysys, ProII, etc.)
Support day-to-day operations by providing engineering analysis and process troubleshooting of equipment items utilizing data analytics and process monitoring tools (PI, Seeq, etc.)
Participate in on-the-job training/development opportunities through mentoring with Chevrons Technical Center (CTC) counterparts
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B. Tech) in chemical engineering or related field from a recognized (AICTE) university
Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with Chevron’s global employee workforce
Preferred Qualifications:
5-10+ years of process engineering experience in upstream, downstream or petrochemical process facilities. Possibly through operation support engineering assignments or process design work for capital projects.
Experience in energy optimization and carbon reduction opportunity evaluation, including understanding the impact of process and equipment design and operation on energy efficiency and GHG emissions.
Experience in technical and economic assessment, energy efficiency improvements, process optimization, Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS), Hydrogen, flaring reduction and methane venting reduction.
Experience in performing analytical calculations such as mass transfer, fluid flow, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, process control, kinetics and equipment sizing.
Experience in working with process monitoring tools and process modeling software, such as PI, Seeq, Hysys, PROII, etc.
Awareness of Process Safety Management concepts and principles such as Process Hazards Analysis, Alarm Objective Analysis, Integrity Operating Windows, etc.
Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.
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