Everyone at Olin contributes to our Winning Model. We empower our employees to make a difference at work, home and in their communities. We celebrate and reward our diverse and innovative workforce that defines our future and contributes through leadership, engagement and productivity.

Join our winning team as an Improvement Engineerlocated in Freeport, TX. TheImprovement Engineer leads the plant-level improvement process by gathering and analyzing data, evaluating improvement opportunities, and implementing improvement projects. This role ensures plant improvements align with business objectives via the Plant Specific Technology Plan to close performance and reliability gaps, reduce costs, and increase productivity (capacity creep, reliability, etc). In addition, the Improvement Engineer provides expense and capital project support, which may include filling various roles in the global project execution work processes, such as project manager, manufacturing representative, Six Sigma green/black belt, etc.

Essential Job Functions:

• Works to optimize operations to meet Business and plant goals(environmental, health & safety, production, cost, productivity, quality, energy, reliability).
• Participates when required in advanced trouble shooting, coaches others to learn these skills, and ensures findings are documented for future usage.
• Provides leadership and direction in the day-to-day decision making for the operating area of responsibility.
• Initiates changes to Plant Operating procedures to ensure they are valid and up to date. Will work with Technical Advisors and Operators in this respect.
• Implements best practices to optimize operations, including owning the pipeline and tracking tools
• Ensures regulatory and responsible care compliance via operating discipline.Understands and applies skills and knowledge to support small projects, as required. Provides technical support to projects.
• Works with Plant Process Control Coordination Roles to ensure process control is optimized in the facility
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert for any appointed areas of expertise (e.g. process safety, process area / equipment, work process disciplines, etc.), and serve on plant on-call rotation.
• Partners with plant operations to generate process data for identifying technology gaps, improvement opportunities, develop job scope and technical execution support turning turnarounds, start-ups, and shutdowns.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree* in Engineering; Chemical or Mechanical Engineering preferred
• 2+ years of project / manufacturing experience
• Work experience with managing vendor proposals and quotations, contractor bids and development of desired solutions for projects preferred
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and work in a team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills - verbal and written
• Knowledge of OSHA 1910.119 PSM standard preferred
• Demonstrated use of Microsoft Office systems; SAP experience preferred
• Must possess or be able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) and possess a valid US driver's license
• Prior Olin experience preferred
  

*Degree must be from a school that is accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the Secretary of Education of the U.S. Department of Education or equivalent program from an international university.

*Olin does not provide any form of sponsorship to applicants not authorized to work in the US.

Olin is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.