Process Engineer (Chemical Engineering)

Location: Pasadena, Texas, United States of America. Full-time onsite role; individual schedules may require flexibility to respond to refinery upsets during off hours. Relocation may be considered within hirify.global parameters. Expatriate assignments will not be considered.

Company

hirify.global operates the Pasadena refinery, where this role supports unit operations, optimization, process safety, and reliability.

What you will do

• Provide process troubleshooting support, technical recommendations, technical inquiries, process engineering tools, guidance, and procedures.
• Support daily refinery operations, unit optimization, gross margin improvement, and evaluation of plant performance and long-term health through test runs.
• Participate in PHA, alarm management, and other studies to improve plant safety and reliability.
• Identify performance gaps, recommend improvement opportunities, and improve work processes across the refinery.
• Provide engineering support during planned and unplanned unit outages, including work at heights and confined space entry when required.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering disciplines and internal subject-matter experts while supporting hirify.global’s safety, teamwork, leadership, diversity, and customer-focus principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience in Process Engineering and/or Process Design in chemical, petrochemical, refining complex process facilities, or engineering companies.
• Aptitude for applying chemical engineering fundamentals, including mass transfer and distillation, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, process control, and kinetics.

Nice to have

• 2–5 years of Process Engineering experience supporting upstream or refinery operations, with familiarity with refining processes.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Confident use of process simulation and process visualization software such as HYSYS, Pro-II, Pipephase, AFT Fathom, HTRI, PI Vision, and SEEQ.
• Familiarity with Process Safety Management concepts and principles, including PHA, LOPA, and alarm management programs, plus awareness of relief systems design and functions.
• Experience preparing and executing plant turnarounds and routine field equipment inspections.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with cross-functional engineering groups and internal subject-matter experts.
• Support a culture focused on diversity, leadership, teamwork, customer focus, and personal and process safety.
• Relocation may be considered within hirify.global parameters.
• Employment visa sponsorship is not available, and individuals on time-limited visa status are not considered.