Chemical Engineer

About the Role

Chemours is seeking an early-career Manufacturing Technology Chemical Engineer to join our growing Technology team. This position will report directly to the Manufacturing Technology Manager at our New Johnsonville, TN location.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support to the manufacturing area operations including daily monitoring of the process, interaction with operating technicians, troubleshooting, and problem-solving.
• Lead and/or participate in Process Safety Management (PSM) related activities such as Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) reviews, Pre-Start Up Safety Reviews (PSSR), Process Technology, and other technical and safety reviews.
• Provide engineering expertise on reactors, heat and mass transfer, mixing systems, filtration, solids separation, natural gas burners, drying technologies, and bulk solids handling.
• Initiate Management of Change (MOC's) to the process to improve safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Work on continuous improvement activities to improve area performance.
• Lead Cost Reduction improvement initiatives from ideation through completion and validation of savings.
• Perform tests on the process to improve safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Assist capital project front-end loading to ensure equipment specified meets process requirements at the highest uptime and lowest life cycle cost. Provide process support to all project phases.
• Update, review, and approve process technology documents such as Operating Procedures, P&ID's, and SOC's to meet PSM and Corporate standards.
• Mentoring and assisting in operations training.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree from an ABET accredited institution in Chemical Engineering.
• At least 6 months of manufacturing or industrial experience (includes co-op/internship experience).
• Demonstrated ability to apply technical knowledge to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve problems.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and manage multiple, complex, time-sensitive projects.
• Collaborate in a team environment with a high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and flexibility to monitor and move projects forward quickly and safely.
• Support process troubleshooting in the field and hands-on work with Technicians as requested.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of any of the following: data analytics and statistics using tools like 6-Sigma, Design of Experiments, Minitab, SEEQ, Power BI, MS Excel, statistical process control for quality management, Root Cause Analysis, and process engineering modeling tools (Aspen, Fathom, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Compensation

• Pay Range: $73,947.00 - $115,542.00
• Annual Bonus Target: 6%