Production Engineer

FMC Corporation is a global agricultural sciences company dedicated to helping growers produce food, feed, fiber and fuel for an expanding world population while adapting to a changing environment. FMC's innovative crop protection solutions – including biologicals, crop nutrition, digital and precision agriculture – enable growers, crop advisers and turf and pest management professionals to address their toughest challenges economically while protecting the environment. With approximately 6,400 employees at more than 100 sites worldwide, FMC is committed to discovering new herbicide, insecticide and fungicide active ingredients, product formulations and pioneering technologies that are consistently better for the planet.

 

FMC is a globally diverse organization that offers its employees exciting opportunities to work on challenging projects that are important to the achievement of our strategic objectives.  With a corporate culture of innovation, integrity, responsibility and customer intimacy, we foster “The Right Chemistry” in everything we do. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. If you are ready to make a difference every day, FMC is ready to talk to you.  

Accountable for providing day to day technical support to enable safe, consistent, reliable, and cost-effective unit operation while supporting Process Safety Management (PSM), and managing process changes to drive short term, incremental improvement.

 

Responsibilities

• Drives Management of Change (MOC) process for area under responsibility including managing implementation of new/revised process conditions, small improvement projects and temporary changes. 
• Plans, manages and/ or executes production related projects, from operator generated improvement ideas to short/mid-term Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and the like.
• Collects and records Operating Asset Utilization (OAU) data.
• Supports plant Operating Asset Utilization (OAU) improvements. 
• Monitors and analyzes key process data to develop proposals for improving production process for safety, quality, yield (cost), capacity, energy efficiency, etc...  Leads /participates in these ad hoc projects.
• Creates / updates plant trouble shooting guides. 
• Supports plant troubleshooting and provides expert technical assistance as needed
• Manages / analyzes data to generate campaign reports.
• Creates / updates Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and temporary procedures.
• Provides inputs to process design and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)s.
• Interfaces with Tech Center on long range improvements and participate as needed.
• Create Pre-Campaign training documentation and temporary procedures (as needed) and lead the training of operators.
• Lead and / or assist with Root Cause Failure Analysis for Incident Investigations

  

Education/Experience:

• Technical Degree (BS, MS, or PhD) in Chemical Engineering / related field or equivalent experience
• 3 to 5 years engineering experience in a manufacturing setting preferred