Sr Engineer, Ammonia Process NROC
Requisition ID: 33675
Location: Calgary, AB, CAN, T2J 7E8
Workplace Type: On-Site
Experience Level: Associate
Job Type: Full Time
What You'll Do:Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a value-driven, real-time monitoring and optimization program for Nutrien ammonia facilities using process control systems, historian data, laboratory analyses, field observations, process models, maintenance information, and other available datasets.
- Monitor plant performance and long-term trends to identify operating constraints, abnormal or degrading equipment, catalyst performance issues, vulnerabilities, and threats.
- Identify opportunities and create actionable recommendations to increase production efficiency, enhance reliability, and reduce operating costs.
- Support process troubleshooting, root cause investigations, and performance improvement studies by integrating process data, engineering analysis, process simulation, operating history, and equipment performance.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance ammonia process digital twins, condition-based monitoring tools, predictive analytics, and other advanced monitoring applications in collaboration with NROC specialists, process control, reliability, and technology teams.
- Support turnaround and outage planning by utilizing performance data, equipment degradation trends, process vulnerabilities, inspection findings, and reliability indicators to identify, justify, and prioritize TAR scope.
- Provide technical mentorship, coaching, and knowledge sharing on ammonia process technology, troubleshooting methods, and optimization opportunities across the ammonia fleet.
- Develop strong collaborative relationships with site operations, maintenance, reliability, turnaround, and engineering teams to drive continuous improvement and maximize operational value.
- Quantify and communicate the business value of recommendations, including production gains, energy savings, reliability improvements, avoided losses, and risk reduction.
What You'll Bring:Required Education and Experience:
- Chemical Engineering degree
- 5+ years of experience with Ammonia process technologies, including plant operations, process design, and/or simulation
- Proven track record of analyzing plant data and making recommendations in operations, maintenance, or design improvements and upgrades.
- Demonstrated experience with ammonia plant process technology and the mechanisms that affect safety, reliability, production, efficiency, catalyst performance, and equipment health.
- Leadership style that allows for collaborate relationships to be established and built with site operational and technical staff
Required Skills: - Knowledge (theoretical or practical understanding of a subject)
- Mechanisms that affect safety, reliability, production, and efficiency of an Ammonia plant
- Chemical engineering principles, including thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, heat transfer, compression, refrigeration, and fluid dynamics
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- Skills (proficiencies developed through training or experience)
- Use of operational data systems, such as data historians, trending tools, and data analysis programs
- Use of chemical process simulation software, such as UniSim Design, Aspen HYSYS, and Aspen Plus
- Use of Microsoft suite of programs, particularly Excel
- Abilities (qualities of being able to do something)
- Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team with multiple stakeholders
- Communicate effectively and influence others
- Passion for digital technologies
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