Sr Associate Plant Engineer

The Senior Plant Engineer is responsible to define, organize, plan, and execute all small capital investment projects to be cost effective, timely, and safely utilize state of the art engineering concepts. The incumbent has to ensure all activities in assigned area are in accordance with accepted engineering practices, regulations, cGMP and Evonik Corporation policies and standards. This position provides technical expertise to maintain and continuously improve assigned areas in order to minimize costs and to ensure technical means for safe and high quality operation. The Senior Plant Engineer is expected to be project responsible on small to medium size capital projects. A Senior Project engineer could also be tasked with providing input to new product estimates.

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Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise, technical services, small capital project delivery for assigned customers at Tippecanoe Laboratories.

• Coordinate small capital and technical change projects through design, construction, commissioning, and qualification, and start up. This may include developing scopes, managing change controls, and generating and executing system qualification packages. Support daily operations including equipment troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis to assure technical availability.

• Work with process engineers to improve regulatory compliance, reliability, and safety.

• Maintenance budget planning, supervision, and control of maintenance in assigned cost centers.

• Monitor and report assigned cost center metrics on a regular basis.

• Serve as project responsible/ Project manager or consultant, when necessary, on large capital projects/customer projects

• Responsible for meeting site objectives in core areas of small capital project delivery, plant engineering support, equipment reliability, improvement of equipment systems, and key support for productivity projects utilizing both external and internal resources in assigned area.

• Make and influence key decisions and take responsibility for time schedule, costs, quality, and plant/area operability. Develop a maintenance strategy for assigned building(s)/area.

• Mentoring of other engineers and peer review of designs in area of expertise.

• Initiate and foster a continuous improvement and optimization process in assigned area.

• Initiate and introduce standards, tools, procedures, safety, cGMP and compliance initiatives in assigned area.

• Originate/ develop technical changes, improvements, along with supporting documentation.

• Develop and maintain engineering specifications, standards, and equipment work instructions that are designed to increase equipment uptime and reduce maintenance and spare part costs.

• Responsible for development of the investment and asset strategy for current and future business in assigned area.

• Prepare accurate and timely preparation for engineering expense reports as required by the site, the business line, and Evonik Corporation.

• A senior plant engineer could be assigned as leader of root cause investigator for equipment related quality events.

• Senior Plant Engineer would be expected to participate and/or lead Quality Risk Assessments for equipment.

Requirements:

• Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) minimum, Professional Engineering license preferred.

• 5-10 years of plant and project experience

• Chemical or Pharmaceutical Industry experience required.

• Possess a highly effective knowledge of plant design, production, project management, maintenance management, policies, and standards in assigned area.

• Demonstrated technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills to maintain customer, area, and business needs.

• Skills in successfully overcoming challenges and identifying opportunities for improvements.

• Ability to implement the fundamentals of project management and plant engineering.

• Human relation skills with emphasis on oral and written communication are essential.

• Ability to influence groups without having direct supervisory responsibility.

• Good computer skills in a variety of software packages (MS Office, SAP) or other CMS Required

• Capable of managing a budget greater than or equal to $2.5M -$3M/yr

• Experience in chemical or pharmaceutical processing equipment/ unit operations preferred.

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at https://careers.evonik.com.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Chuck Valiando [C]

Company is

Evonik Corporation