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Principal Plant Engineer - Kansas City, Missouri 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Principal Plant Engineer, are to:

• Provide technical engineering support for assigned units by improving quality and rates, reducing costs and emissions, and improving safety, reliability, and operability of the facilities.
• Provide technical support and lead multi-discipline teams to identify, investigate, and solve repetitive mechanical failures.
• Provide technical assistance with new equipment and plant start-up.
• Monitor the plant’s predictive maintenance program.  Specify predictive maintenance items and schedules to ensure the continued safety and reliability of the plant.  Track plant maintenance costs and repairs due to reliability problems.
• Coordinate, schedule, and review all plant safety and reliability inspections.  Plan, design, and execute necessary repairs and/or modifications to resolve discrepancies identified by the Corporate Inspection Program.
• Plan, develop, and initiate the scope and priority for special maintenance work such as plant/process/unit shutdowns.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards, engineering procedures, plant safety standards, pressure safety design and environmental standards on all projects and tasks.  Initiate and
• participate in project safety reviews.
• Provide scope of plant improvement projects.  Assist in writing Engineering Service Requests (ESRs) in conjunction with the operating Functional Leader, Plant Technical Manager, and Process Engineer.
• Provide information and data required by Project Engineering, for consistent plant engineering design.
• Approve design specifications.
• Review and monitor ARs/Projects with Project Engineering.
• Develop complete engineering design packages to aid in the implementation of plant modifications or repairs. Administer, as Project Engineer, assigned ARs.
• Interface with end user groups and respective stakeholders in development of scope and design as well as safe execution and completion of construction work.
• Coordinate the development of detailed construction drawings and specifications with other engineering disciplines.  Observe and coordinate supporting engineering disciplines to meet quality, schedule, and cost requirements. 
• Specify or guide specification and purchase of major equipment and piping items.
• Approve and/or seek approval from Engineering management of all purchase requisitions for the project.
• Assist in facilities start-up by consulting with site and plant personnel. 
• Serve on the project start-up team when assigned. Complete and document projects by finishing punch list items, reconciling actual project costs with estimated costs, and managing collection, publication, and archival of essential project records via file consolidation.
• Guide less experienced engineers and student co-ops and interns and, when required, supervise consultants and peers working in a supporting role on projects.
• Develop and maintain the following equipment documentation: equipment descriptions, spare parts, equipment lists, histories, manuals, flow sheet documentation, drawings, etc.  This is done to ensure the continued reliability of the plant.
• Assist in developing the yearly maintenance budget and assist in the development of the yearly capital budget for the facility or area.
• Assist in maintaining spending within budget limitations.
• Fill-in for technical plant management as needed:  absence of technical plant management from plant (vacation, business, schedule conflicts, illness, etc.).  When called upon, could be involved in such activities as giving presentations to upper management detailing status of area projects, equipment performance, department goals, or project justifications. 

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or related engineering discipline;

Preferred qualifications:

• Minimum of eight (8) years of industrial manufacturing experience preferably in the chemical process industry, six (6) years of experience with a Master of Science degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or related Engineering discipline;
• Broad technical background, excellent knowledge of chemical processes and equipment to effectively analyze, recommend, and make complex decisions;
• lead and manage a multi-discipline team as well as work independently with minimal supervision;
• Manage and successfully execute capital projects including development and presentation of project scope, cost estimating and control, budgeting, and scheduling;
• Work on numerous projects at the same time;
• Ability to interface with all levels of organization from management to floor level operational employees;
• Willingness to travel as required (< 25%);
• Knowledge of engineering projects and site services practices and standards;
• Proven record of working in similar roles;
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills in both technical and non-technical;

• Intermediate computer skills.
• Master of Science degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or related engineering discipline.

Position will be based in Kansas City, Missouri and eligible for domestic relocation benefits.

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