Title:  Process Improvement Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

As a Process Improvement Engineer, your primary mission is to drive process improvements across multiple facilities, including a refinery, a vegetable oil biodiesel plant, and a waste-based biodiesel plant. You’ll be working in a multi-skilled, integrated team to identify inefficiencies, implement solutions, and sustain improvements

Key Accountabilities

• Directly provide updates on the project objectives, performance measures, issues and risks to senior staff.
• Identify, monitor, and implement continuous improvement best practices.
• Develop and handle continuous improvement plans for projects with low to medium cost and risk in order to reach and sustain project goals.
• Conduct organization readiness assessments, value realization, opportunity prioritization, resource evaluation and execute continuous improvement strategies that meet business requirements.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• A results-driven Continuous Improvement Specialist with a strong mechanical and reliability engineering background. Experienced in collaborating closely with reliability departments to reduce emergency losses and enhance equipment uptime. Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects in refinery and biodiesel operations, applying Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to drive sustainable process and asset improvements.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.