Engineer Manager Jobs in Louin, MS (NOW HIRING)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide on demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups.
• Serve as a skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
• Develop technical solutions independently based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
• Serve as a "go-to" technical resource for assigned area or technology to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
• Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
• Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects. 
• Develop detailed scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for small-medium scale projects (<$1MM) by using company's project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables). 
• Provide equipment repair, replacement and metallurgical recommendations. 
• Participate in formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence. 
• Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
• Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
• Assist in auditing of Maintenance and Operations practices to improve reliability and operability of refinery process equipment.
• Coordinate services of engineering and other consultants as required.
• Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
• Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
• Assist in identification, development and implementation of training programs as needed for others in the engineering, maintenance, and operations departments.
• Communicate with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities. 
• Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program. 
• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.

Interpersonal Skills

• Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.
• Exemplify the company core values: Commitment to Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Teamwork, Creativity, Humility and Community-Centric.
• Develop relationships and influences effective business results.
• Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.
• Must be able to handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment. 
• Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.
• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery, and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects. 
• Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.

Leadership Skills

• Ability to proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat. 
• Ability to lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
• Ability to pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results. 
• Exhibits attitude of servant leadership.
• Has high emotional intelligence and shows a willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

Language Skills

• Ability to speak and read English fluently.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.
• Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics. 
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.

Education and Experience

• B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Three to six years in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other related industrial experience.
• Proficient in use of personal computers and office software applications.
• Knowledge in P6 or Microsoft Project is a plus.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. 
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Additional Information

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Leadership and motivational skills for peers.
• Self motivated with desire to learn and develop new skills.
• Exhibit a "can do" attitude and spirit of cooperation.
• Support management objectives.

• Subject to periodic "on-call" duty and non-scheduled call-in/overtime assignments.

  #LI-HuntRefining

The Hunt family of companies are a privately owned group of entities that include oil and gas exploration and production, refining, LNG, power, renewables, real estate, ranching and infrastructure. The mission of Hunt is to be a growth-oriented industry leader respected throughout the world for the quality and competency of its people, the efficiency and scope of its operations, and its rich heritage of honesty and integrity.