OxyChem Ethylene Production Engineer

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with Oxy Chem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? Oxy Chem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Oxy Chem, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading producer of essential chemistry with operations in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Oxy Chem’s products play an essential role in everyday life, supporting critical applications in water treatment, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, personal hygiene, and residential and commercial construction. Oxy Chem actively participates in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program, underscoring our commitment to safety.

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Oxy Chem is a top three U.S. manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, chlor-alkali and chlorinated organic chemicals, and calcium chloride. Visit  for more information.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated individual to fill the position of Production Engineer with our Ingleside Plant located in Gregory, Texas.

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our products as our highest priority.
• Maintain production rates in the plant to achieve Divisional requirements and within product quality specifications.
• Provide ongoing engineering assistance to operations, including daily troubleshooting of process operating problems, conducting special tests, developing monthly reports, providing process supervisor relief coverage, providing technical assistance, and reporting of production status.
• Track efficiencies in the plant and make recommendations to maximize overall plant profit and efficiency.
• Assist with the review, approval, and prioritization of projects of the plant.
• Provide engineering support to production areas to achieve optimal process efficiencies and raw material usages.
• Assist with production reporting and month-end production closing in SAP.
• Identify and coordinate process improvements and cost reduction ideas with other plant and corporate functions.
• Implement process changes to increase production capacity, improve operating reliability, reduce manufacturing costs, reduce energy usage, conserve raw materials, improve product yields, improve product quality, enhance safety, upgrade environmental safeguards, and provide for the overall optimization of process operation.
• Provide engineering support for turnarounds and outages.
• Develop, manage, and participate in programs, methods, systems, and practices for maintaining a safe working environment.
• Maintain proficiency in technology, process knowledge, and plant operation.
• Represent production and engineering in matters of evaluation, selection, and coordination of vendors supplying necessary operation services, materials, equipment, and other needs of operation.
• Provide liaison between the Operations Department and the various corporate and plant support functions, such as Purchasing, MIS, R&D, and the Plant Laboratory.
• Maintain safety awareness consistent with plant and corporate standards via attendance and participation in safety meetings, safety training, process hazards reviews, job observations, plant inspections, etc.
• Assure compliance and consistency of process changes and process hazard reviews with follow-up documentation and training consistent with OSHA .

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably Chemical Engineering.
• 2 years’ experience in plant operations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interactive skills.
• High proficiency in Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint…