Turnaround Engineer

Basic Function

LyondellBasell’s Global Asset Integrity and Turnaround Department is a world-class, central engineering support organization – advancing continuous performance improvements in our petrochemical facilities worldwide.

The Turnaround Engineer leads and facilitates the identification and development of technical and engineered turnaround work scope. The Turnaround Engineer also identifies potential contractors, develops bid packages, and leads procurement in the development of contractor strategy to support the execution phase of turnarounds. The position is based within Global Asset Integrity & Turnarounds (GAIT) and will require travel to various Midwest sites for turnaround preparation and assessment, particularly in Morris (IL) and Clinton (IA). The chosen candidate will have the option to work from either location.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to enable the organization to achieve GoalZERO HSE performance
• Contributes to overall leadership of turnaround planning and execution, driving use of best practices
• Provides first level technical support for turnaround planning staff
• Liaison between the Capital Project Managers and the Turnaround Team on projects that have scope that will be performed during the turnaround
• Assures work scope requiring engineering design be put into the design process such that design deliverables are received by the Turnaround Team per the turnaround excellence model
• Manage low complexity projects associated with assigned turnarounds with aggregate capital expenditures of $5MM - $15MM
• Works with turnaround planning resources to define technical resource needs and assigns, allocates, or procures them as necessary to efficiently and safely meet turnaround goals
• Assists and backs up the Turnaround Manager as needed and provides leadership as required for aspects of turnaround planning and execution
• Communicates status, key performance indicators and metrics
• Develops, manages, leads, and assist with turnaround improvement efforts   #LI-CB1

Min. Qualifications

• Education: 
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Work Experience:
  • Typically, minimum 8 years of engineering experience in a process plant or comparable environment is required
• Languages:
  • English
• Skills:
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Travel: 
  • 10% - 15% travel within North America required

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior turnaround / project experience strongly preferred
• SAP, Primavera, Power BI and Archer skills preferred

Competencies