Operations Support Engineer Jobs

The Operations Support Engineer provides process engineering support to the 24x7 production organization to ensure excellence in process safety, reliability, margin, energy optimization, and cost management. The role works closely with the Production Team to provide technical assurance to unit operations and ensure production plan delivery. In addition, this role plays a key role in continuous improvement, project development, and turnaround planning and execution.

The Operations Support Engineer is typically assigned specific process units to support, as part of an area Production Team. At times, the Operations Support Engineer may instead be assigned to key studies, projects, and improvement activities. The successful candidate will join the Sarnia Process Engineering Team and will be assigned an area of support based on experience and available opportunities.

The following are the primary accountabilities for the Operations Support Engineer:

• Provide technical leadership to turnaround and major maintenance activities including scope collection, scope review, scope challenge, as well as shut down and start-up procedures
• Utilizes fact-based root cause analysis to investigate, define and troubleshoot threats
• Generate investment proposals for unit outage, major maintenance, and turnaround related activities such as catalyst replacements, and support capital projects to ensure successful commissioning
• Lead management of change to ensure robust Process Safety Management for changes to be implemented
• Perform proactive technical monitoring for the assigned process unit and ensure units operate within established limits
• Act as the integrator with other disciplines to meets all aspects of HSSE ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and include cost-value optimization
• Active participate in Process Hazard Analyses to identify and assess process safety threats and develop recommendations to mitigate these threats.
• Provide technical expertise and optimization recommendations to support delivery of the business plan, including feed and product quality specifications and energy/cost efficiency
• Provide process engineering support for operating problems and seek additional engineering support where appropriate
• Lead unit alarm reviews and supports alarm management activities
• Identify and communicate to the technical, production and maintenance communities’ threats, troubleshoot performance and reliability gaps, and identify opportunities for improvement

Skills & Requirements

What we need from you -

• Minimum three (3) years relevant experience in a similar role
• Professional Engineering designation or working towards this designation
• Ability to work off-hours to support turnaround and emergencies, including potential on-call support for Emergency Operations Centre.
• Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Chemical Engineering Degree is required