Production Engineer Performance Polymers

Job content

To maintain and improve the production process performance in terms of safety & environment, energy, quality, capacity, and cost for our performance polymers plant at Kaneka Belgium.

• Review and optimize the installations to realize safe and stable operation at the lowest cost.
• Participate actively in initiatives to increase the efficiency of installations and propose and execute tests to increase production capacity, produce new products, or start up new facilities.
• Continuously follow up and improve the quality of the end product according to all product specifications.
• Stimulate and control safe and environment-conscious production and maintenance operations according to the management requirements of quality, environment, energy, and safety (SOP, TP) to prevent accidents/incidents.
• Initiate, update and work out all Hazop Lopa files of the performance polymers production together with SHEQ and Engineering Department.
• Calculate and evaluate the merits of projects to guarantee the profitability of investments. Stay up-to-date with new process technologies to improve the performance of the production installations.
• Motivate and train operators and staff members to obtain the best performance in safety, environment, quality, cost-efficiency, and productivity. Ensure that all employees are informed about their work-related procedures, understand them, and effectively execute them.
• You will be responsible for the utility section (wastewater treatment and several utility installations), supplying utilities to the whole site.

Your profile

• You have a master's degree in Civil Engineering.
• Preferably 3-7 years of professional experience in a (similar) chemical plant environment.
• Knowledge of chemical process techniques - management techniques.
• Languages: Dutch and English required.
• Strong analytic - entrepreneurship – responsible – team player – strong SHEQ minded - no 9 to 5 mentality.

What can you expect?

• A varied function in a stable and growing international Japanese origin company in a traffic-free area.
• A decent basic remuneration with extensive fringe benefits.
• An intensive start-up program and regular follow-up training to further professionalize and form a professional production environment.

For this position, we will work with an external recruiter.