Process Operator

About This Role

Operate and monitor chemical processes to load/unload products, manage utilities, and control equipment using a DCS, ensuring safety, efficiency, and product quality in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Load product into tank trucks and railcars and unload raw materials from tank trucks and railcars
• Monitor process utilities such as cooling water, air compressors, and wastewater treatment
• Manipulate valve lineups to transfer chemicals and purge/clear process lines
• Take daily readings on process parameters (levels, pressures, temperatures)
• Prepare equipment for maintenance activities and work with engineers to update or create procedures
• Monitor and control process equipment and machinery using a DCS to meet production goals safely and effectively
• Maintain safety as the highest priority and abide by INEOS safety policies and procedures
• Observe chemical reactions, monitor gauges, signals, and recorders, and make specified operating adjustments on equipment
• Draw samples of products for laboratory analysis, use GC's, and maintain a log of gauge readings and shift production
• Perform truck loading operations and spot railcars in a safe, accurate, efficient manner

Requirements

• High school diploma
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Good mechanical skills
• Ability to wear respirator

Qualifications

• High school diploma and Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in Process Technology preferred
• Prior chemical plant operations experience helpful, less than three years for starting salary

Nice to Have

• Prior chemical plant operations experience
• Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in Process Technology

Skills

* Required skills