Advanced Chemical Engineer

Job Description Key Responsibilities: Operations and Process Optimization: - Monitor and optimize UOP technologies, ensuring the identification and resolution of issues. - Review operations with customers, assisting in defining and quantifying customer benefits and optimizing their processes. - Identify areas for improvement across UOP technologies and assets, with a focus on efficiency and cost reduction. Technical Support and Troubleshooting: - Provide readily available technical solutions to customers, ensuring fast resolution of operational issues. - Perform initial triage of technical issues, escalating as necessary for further support. - Proactively communicate insights from trends, establish patterns, and develop diagnostic investigations to prevent future issues. Data Analytics and Insights: - Apply data mining to handle unstructured data, deriving technical insights from various data sets. - Perform descriptive and inferential statistics to summarize datasets and inform process improvements. - Derive problem statements from ambiguous data, create hypotheses, and use analytics tools to test hypotheses and form conclusions. - Analyze large amounts of historical data, clean and filter data, identify patterns, and create variables for predictive analytics. Continuous Monitoring and Reporting: - Ensure timely monitoring of solutions using PM, PTA, PRA, POA, Benchmarking, and EBA methodologies. - Troubleshoot and monitor systems to ensure high on-screen availability and continuous operation. - Work with the team to innovate next-generation BIG DATA monitoring tools using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Shift Management and Operational Excellence: - Work in a 24/7 shift environment, being flexible and agile to respond to immediate operational needs. - Collaborate with the GSCCC Operation Leader to ensure the GSC (Global Service Center) becomes a Center of Excellence for operational sustainability and efficiency. Customer and Stakeholder Interaction: - Review operations with customers and provide technical recommendations to improve operational efficiency. - Communicate insights effectively to stakeholders, aligning with business intentions and ensuring commitment to GSCs key results. Qualifications: Educational Background: - BS degree in Chemical Engineering or related field. Experience: - Experience in design or operation of UOP Technology units, particularly in Naphtha, Aromatics, Oleflex, PSA, Merox, Gas Processing, or Hydroprocessing. - Proven experience with technical solutions and troubleshooting for UOP technologies. - Familiarity with data mining, predictive analytics, and Big Data monitoring tools. Key Skills: - Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and make improvements. - Proficient in data analytics technologies, including Power BI, ProSight, and Machine Learning tools. - Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical solutions clearly to customers and stakeholders. - Customer-focused mindset, with the ability to define and quantify customer benefits and deliver timely solutions. Desirable Skills: - Passion for continuous learning and staying updated on emerging technologies. - Ability to think innovatively and outside the box, contributing to new ideas for process improvements. - Experience in shift work and the ability to manage tasks in a 24/7 operational environment. Key Competencies: - Customer-Oriented: Ability to prioritize customer needs and provide effective solutions. - Innovation: Focused on applying cutting-edge technologies to solve operational challenges. - Team Collaboration: Ability to work in a cross-functional environment and lead collaborative efforts. - Problem-Solving: Strong ability to analyze complex data and identify actionable insights to drive improvements.