Process Engineer - Distillation and Separations

About the position:

The Distillation/Separations Process Engineer is responsible for providing process engineering support to Chevron’s business units within upstream, LNG, downstream, and renewable facilities. The Distillation/Separations will support the design of systems from early concept through detailed engineering, perform troubleshooting and optimizations for Operations, evaluate new technologies, and help develop and implement digital tools.  The work often impacts multiple BUs, regions and Asset Classes. The areas of support include oil, gas, water, solids, and renewable oil & gas.

This is an individual contributor role in the Process Engineering & Automation Chapter which is a part of the Engineering & Project Department in the Chevron ENGINE.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide timely technical service consultation on distillation and/or separations aspects to onshore and offshore oil and gas upstream, LNG, downstream, and renewable operating assets; as well as to capital project teams supporting new asset development and/or operational issues in existing projects and assets.

• Review and improve designs for operability, reliability, and ease of maintenance

• Support early phase project design execution by developing process documents such as heat and material balances and process datasheets

• Develop and maintain detailed process simulation models to evaluate design and operating scenarios (Hysys, ProII, etc.)

• Support day-to-day operations by providing engineering analysis and process troubleshooting of equipment items utilizing data analytics and process monitoring tools (PI, Seeq, etc.)

• Participate in on-the-job training/development opportunities through mentoring with Houston’s technical center counterparts

Required qualifications:

• 5-10+ years of process engineering experience in the design and troubleshooting of distillation and/or separation equipment for the upstream onshore and offshore, LNG, and downstream process facilities. Possibly through operation support engineering assignments or process design work for capital projects.

• Experience with separation and/or distillation technologies for several of the following processes: gas dehydration, natural gas sweetening, Offshore Topsides/Onshore Facilities gas/oil/water separation, solid removal, and produced water treatment, refining technologies including: Crude and Vacuum Distillation, Alkylation, Fluid Catalytic Cracking, Delayed Coking, Reforming, Hydrogen Manufacturing, Amine/Sour Water, and/or Hydro-processing.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B. Tech) in chemical engineering or related field from a recognized (AICTE) university

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with Chevron’s global employee workforce

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in performing analytical calculations such as mass transfer, fluid flow, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, process control, kinetics and equipment sizing.

• Experience in working with process monitoring tools and process modeling software, such as PI, Seeq, Hysys, PROII, etc.

• Awareness of Process Safety Management concepts and principles such as Process Hazards Analysis, Alarm Objective Analysis, Integrity Operating Windows, etc.

• Awareness of separations/distillation sizing software such as MySep, KGTower, etc.