Engineer Corporate Process & Technology
Apply now »Date: Mar 17, 2023
Location: Knoxville, TN, US, 37924
Company: CEMEX
Company Overview
Founded in 1906, over the last 110+ years' CEMEX has grown into a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Here at CEMEX we offer our employees competitive wages, career growth, excellent benefits including health, dental & vision plans, vacation or paid time off, employee assistance program and retirement plan options, along with over a century of stability to build your next career on! To learn more about our company culture and why you should join us, visit us at www.cemexusa.com/careers. For direct access to CEMEX Career Opportunities, visit us at https://jobs.cemex.com/.
Job Summary
Support all cement plants, guaranteeing all product is manufactured within environmental, quality, yield and cost specification and following and implementing CEMEX Standards. Promoting always a safe and engaging workplace.
Job Responsibilities
- Work following the Mission, Vision and Values of CEMEX, lead by example.
- Assures training requirements are meet for all personnel, identifies, and creates plans for compliance and delivers training where required.
- Troubleshoots, Root Cause Analysis, support and follow up on execution of actions.
- Creates instructions, procedures and standards, and assure compliance of both on the operation of the equipment as well as the physical status of the area.
- Verifies and applies all quality systems, procedures and meets objectives.
- Verifies and applies all environmental standards, assure compliance and optimizes reagent use through the correct operation of equipment.
- Analyze, assign resources and solve potential and identified problems in area equipment.
- Creates and executes major outage plans.
- Participate in the creation of the Operational budget and assure compliance.
- Compliance of all autonomous maintenance routines, plans together with maintenance the solution for issues identified.
- Process measurements, analysis, and improvement of all equipment in area, following Equipment Essential guidelines.
- Assures the correct communication, follow up and execution of procedures, instructions, actions and standards assigned by the Production Manager.
- Collaborates and executes standard actions as requested by the Process Department.
- Lead area meetings, and participate and present results in plant and other area meetings
Safety Responsibilities
- Adhere and ensure all CEMEX, MSHA, O.S.H.A., and other safety rules and regulations at all times. Wear proper safety equipment while on plant grounds (including but not limited to clothing, hardhat, safety glasses, ear protection, safety shoes, gloves, etc.)
- Assure all plant personnel (direct and indirect report) work in a safe environment, guarantee all required tools are available to perform a safe task and ensure risk assessments are conducted and follow up on safety hazard identifications and procedures.
- Ensure people have skills and training needed to perform in a safe and productive manner, be able to train personnel to assure compliance.
- Assures area assigned is up to safety standards, all deviations are identified and corrected.
- Participate on safety committees, risk assessment, training, standard work, assist in developing safety programs, monitor plant operations to assist in ensuring safe job performance
- Participate in near miss and accident investigations
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Chemistry or Chemical preferred) or related major
- 2-5 years progressive experience in cement.
- Availability at all times to work and resolve issues of assigned area
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Cement experience and knowledge in quality, operation and maintenance.
- Prior experience in pyro-processing and gas handling is preferred.
- Ability and Leadership to manage and develop people, communication, team work and collaboration with different areas.
- Result oriented, identifies issues and drives the decision process, through an analytic mind, coordinate and work on different activities simultaneously
- Ability to plan and coordinate activities within supervised personnel and other departments
- Self-motivated, fast-learner in high paced working environment
- Detail oriented and ability to set priorities and complete goals and objectives in a timely and orderly manner
- Computer savvy, Microsoft Office software
Working Conditions
- Continuous exposure to extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme noise, and working outdoors.
- Must wear protective equipment while at the location
- Tobacco free environment
- Ability to travel 60% of the time
Physical Requirements
- Requires walking, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling, and climbing to a significant degree
- Heavy Work-Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds or force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear, in order to communicate to employees/visitors as well as function safely around heavy rolling equipment
- Must be capable of working at heights and confined spaces
- Must pass physical screening, hearing test and drug/alcohol screen
Legal Notices
CEMEX is an EEO/AA (equal opportunity/affirmative action) institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by under federal, state or local law in the programs or activities which it operates.
CEMEX will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all local, state and federal laws.
CEMEX is an E-Verify participating employer.
Arizona Smoke-Free Act. CEMEX complies with the State of Arizona’s Smoke-Free Act (Arizona Revised Statutes § 36-601.01). Smoking and/or the use of tobacco or related products is prohibited in and on CEMEX property as well as any building and/or vehicle owned or leased by CEMEX.
CEMEX offers both competitive pay and benefits. Benefits applicable to this position may include, but are not limited to, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, and Holiday Pay, as well as a comprehensive wellness program to help keep employees and their families healthy and well. You can learn more about CEMEX Benefits by visiting the CEMEX USA Benefits and Well-Being page. (https://www.cemexusa.com/careers/life-at-cemex/benefits-well-being).
EEO Statement - En Español
CEMEX es una institución EEO/AA (igualdad de oportunidad/acción afirmativa) y no discrimina en base al sexo, edad, raza, color, religión, discapacidad física o mental, credo, origen nacional, estatus veterano, orientación sexual, información genética, identidad de género, o expresión de género en los programas o actividades los cuales opera.
Nearest Major Market: Knoxville