PDH - Production Excellence Specialist

Advanced Petrochemical Company

Saudi Arabia

Ref: MP396-23

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Provide Analysis, Solutions, and tools to improve the existing system, organization and management of tasks.
- Provide guidance on process vulnerability assessment to help the organization develop a more detailed, more safe and effective standards that support operational objectives.
- Provide advice and guidance to the Operations, Maintenance, Environment, Fire, and Safety & Training Department. Plays a role in solving problems affecting operations and optimi9zing/monitoring conditions for the assurance of reliability and uninterrupted product supply in coordination of all other supporting departments.
- Formulate innovative propositions to enhance the performance of existing units or systems to optimize production and cost effectiveness.
- Provide ongoing support to the Operations staff, Contractors, Vendor Planning, investigation maintenance, respire and installation of variety of machines and equipments to ensure all objectives are met efficiently.
- Foster Change and innovations - Challenge the status quo. Embrace technology, put forward creative ideas, champion and implement process improvements, and demonstrate god judgment about which idea will work.
- Execute with excellence - plan and organize well, drive for result, set clear expectations and milestones, review progress, ands solve problems.
- Review and monitor all aspect of Operations to ensure all operational parameters are met for the smooth and efficient and total reliability of the plant.
- Provide operation with guidance in the review of all procedures for meeting operational objectives and making changes in procedure for the safe and efficient running of the plant.
- Enhance operational process through process design improvements in order to improve productivity or reduce costs.
- Contribute to the preparation of preventive maintenance strategy and procedure to schedule maintenance.
- Coordinates with the Maintenance Planning Department to identify equipment history for all maintenance system.
- Support the Operations team in critical and emergency situations to mitigate the risks in emergency and other critical circumstances.
- Contribute to the planning turn of TAM and participate actively to carry out critical safety checks during execution, to ensure completion of agreed schedules, scope and quality, ensure safe working at all times.
- Visit the work sites, investigate and analyze complex technical issues in order to resolve operations and maintenance problems.
- Carryout more complex troubleshooting, monitor equipment performance; contribute to the design and review of modifications proposal to fully utilize system capabilities.
- Establish, Implement and oversee the quality systems in line with the Company and industry standards.
- Utilize software applications like Meridium PLA to monitor and investigate quality issues recorded from non-conformance reports.
- Identify training needs from incident investigation to design effective training programs.

Requirements

Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry of Physics or relevant branch of Engineering, Job need process design know how and capability, good knowledge of common polymers, hydrocarbon process, familiarity with engineering drawings and schematic diagrams and the ability to interpret design/build drawings.

- At least 10-15 years of operational experience in a petrochemical, polymer, chemical plant or refinery.
- Familiar with process knowledge of PDH Novolen, CATOFIN technology.

Skills and Competencies:
- Communication Skills Level -3
- Planning and Gorgonizing Skills Level-3
- Quality Management System Level -3
- Health and safety system Level 3
- Data Collection and analysis Level -3
- Engineering principles Level-3
- Operations System knowledge Level-3
- Analytical skills, Good Computer skills Level -3

About the Company

ADVANCED was established as a joint stock company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 27th Shaban 1426H (Corresponding to 1 October 2005) to develop an integrated propane Dehydrogenation and Polypropylene complex in Jubail Industrial City comprising an area of 650,000 m2. The company produces 450,000 tons per annum of polypropylene. The company is utilizing proven technologies provided by ABB Lumus and Novolen Technology Holdings (NTH). The products are marketed locally and globally through approved partners with high quality packaging materials.

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