Process Engineer at Sasol

• The purpose of the job is to support the process engineering strategy with respect to meeting production targets, providing process engineering technical support and identifying improvement opportunities.
• The incumbent will be expected to contribute unit-specific technical input into daily assurance process, taking upstream and downstream units into account.
• The incumbent will report to the Engineering Lead and will not have any direct reports.

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS:

• Accountable to define "Operate within agreed parameters" (OWAP) and optimum window in which the business operating units should be operated
• Accountable to monitor and identify improvement opportunities to ensure plants operate within the OWAP
• Understand optimum operating windows, deviations and preventative measures
• Assimilate and contextualise data for inputs into Volume Protection Plan (VPP) and assess VPP effectiveness
• Contribute technical inputs into VPP and identify risk of deviation
• Interpret and understand own business unit drivers for input into improvement plans
• Deliver technical track and process related inputs required on small to medium projects (tier 3-5) in accordance with sound established engineering principles and standards to satisfy business requirements
• Accountable for implementation of reporting as required.
• Accountable for his/her own safety and safety and for implementation and compliance to the systems aimed at ensuring safety.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

In addition to a pre-employment medical examination, some positions may require a physical fitness assessment as part of the normal selection criteria.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a BSc (Chemical Engineering) or BEng (Chemical) engineering degree (Must)

Experience:

• A minimum of 6-8 years’ relevant experience (Must)
• Proven track of satisfactory performance (Must)
• Knowledge of the SSO value chains and Gas Circuit (Gas Reforming) will be a strong advantage
• Conceptual and strategic development experience will be an advantage

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

Leadership

• Self-mastery Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.

Business Leadership

• Business-focused
• Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement.
• Results-focused
• Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.

Functional / Technical:

• Proactive identification of process deviations, threats, risks and opportunities through monitoring of unit operations and ensure inclusion into improvement plans/VPP
• Compile loss accounting and translation of losses into improvement plans
• Monitor and interpret performance on technical drivers, constraints and levers on unit operations level, taking upstream and downstream units into account
• Ensure unit and system heat maps and reporting on efficiencies, losses and integrity concerns are executed
• Ensure data assimilation and contextualisation to identify opportunities for input into process related improvement plans/technical landscape
• Accountable for shutdown support with respect to process equipment integrity and improvement idea generation
• Ensure process integrity of equipment is restored through inspections and recommendation of improvement opportunities during shutdowns
• Monitor effectiveness of VPP and adherence to yields supplied for planning and scheduling processes
• Ensure that reports are issued as per requirements
• Monitor energy usage and identify improvement opportunities
• Ensure that plant reliability, volume and unit cost are quantified and improved
• Ensure process engineering input into operating manuals, including start-up and shutdown procedures as well as training manuals
• Provide process engineering support and input to small to medium projects (tier 3-5) such as:
• Process design (conceptual, basic engineering and some detail)
• Participation in design and safety reviews
• Ensure appropriate governance are applied with regard to the process scope (conformance to standards and specifications)
• Support start-up and commissioning
• Supply techno-economical input into business cases
• Compliance with project milestones and metrics
• Conceptual design of potential plant improvement initiatives
• Ensure that optimum solutions are achieved for opportunities identified
• Analyse and understand the root cause of deviations that occurred on unit operations
• Ensure quality inputs of own work
• Ensure plant basic documentation and systems are in place and at required standard (mass balances, energy balances, fingerprinting, MSR's, operating envelopes/philosophies, critical parameters and levers and predictive monitoring tools)
• Comply to internal Sasol guidelines and policies
• Ensure well documented “Root Cause” analyses for all significant loss incidents and major equipment failures
• Actively identify process safety threats and ensure that mitigation plans are in place
• Technical input into Hazops, PFD and MFD reviews (Fulfil role of technical representative)
• Demonstrate fundamental documentation and tools are in place and still relevant
• Compliance with internal guidelines & policies e.g. MOC process followed

Behavioural:

• Maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Provide services to follow a standard set in the Sasol Operational Framework
• Provide input concerning best practices, lessons learned etc. to Engineering Centres of Excellence
• Execute the SHE strategy to achieve zero harm
• Identification, quantification and mitigation of process safety risks
• Zero process safety incidents
• Delivery on process safety management elements
• Behaviour Based Safety compliance
• Integrated Management Safety compliance
• Recordable Case Rate improvement / compliance
• Determine discipline specific focus areas
• Compliance with legal requirements
• Quality control of delivered services audited as required