Chemical Engineer jobs in New Jersey

As a Site Engineer at Eastman, you'll support efforts in our manufacturing plants to improve process and equipment productivity and reliability. You will be assigned to a specific area of the plant and work with Maintenance, Engineering and Operations to identify, prioritize and execute improvement opportunities and to achieve reliability, failure elimination and cost reduction goals. This position also aids in support of the day-to-day operations and maintenance including covering operations as needed on a limited basis.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Partner closely with operations to improve equipment availability and process reliability reducing unplanned production downtime
• Lead projects that target reliability and maintainability issues, reduce cost and improve productivity
• Drive continuous improvements and support all site HSES initiatives
• Partner support for plant outages and shutdowns as requested
• Understand and utilize Lean Six Sigma tools for problem solving and risk elimination
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for reliability improvements by mining information from SAP, reliability systems and production logs
• Manage the plant's project engineering activities including working with plant leadership to develop the plant's annual project plan (capital and large expense projects)
• Track and oversee capital projects to insure project deliverables are achieved on time and on budget. Ability to recognize, understand problems and opportunities as they arise and develop solutions to keep projects on track to address these problems
• Lead and manage Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations
• Manage FMEA analyses on critical production assets
• Provide reliability input to capital projects as requested
• Provide technical leadership at all levels of the plant organization with special emphasis on interfacing with maintenance and operations
• Guide problem solving teams to identify, design and implement improvements
• Work safely and promote the Eastman safety vision

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university (Mechanical Engineering preferred)
• 5 years experience in a chemical or manufacturing environment preferred
• Experience in Capital Planning, Coordination, Management and Construction with a proven track record of delivering projects on schedule, on budget and on scope
• Strong basic engineering and problem solving skills, with the desire to learn advanced reliability engineering principles
• Maintenance experience desired
• Understanding of engineering, safety environmental standards relevant to capital project management and construction
• Capable of developing technical and manufacturing equipment specifications and detailed discipline specific work scopes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies
• Preferred experience managing equipment preventive and predictive maintenance plan with asset management software
• Knowledge of common process equipment (pumps, fans, agitators, motors, valves, instrumentation etc.)
• Basic knowledge of electrical power distribution systems
• Understanding of common predictive and preventive measures
• Must be highly-motivated, self-directed and able to manage own project portfolio
• Desire and ability to work in the field with mechanics and operators as necessary in response to urgent critical equipment troubleshooting
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
• Effective group facilitation and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with and lead cross-functional working teams
• Service-oriented, customer-focused and strong analytical capabilities
• Unwavering commitment to personnel and process safety