Shift Engineer

Location

Assam | India

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Job Description and Qualifications

POSITION SUMMARY

Purpose

Reporting to the Plant Manager, shift engineer is responsible for the day-to-day shift operation of the 2 SMRs, ASU, Syngas and integrated gas turbine plants based on the Air Products Kochi Plant and ensuring shift operating team to operate the plants safely and efficiently to facilitate attainment of the company’s standards.  

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the shift engineer will ensure the smooth and reliable operation of all the operating units of the of the Air Products Kochi facility.

Nature and Scope

The Kochi Plant is Air Products first fully owned and operated plant in India; it represents a significant investment and includes “State of the Art” technology which makes it the most advanced Hydrogen Plant within the Corporation.

The plant consists of 5 main elements: -

• 2 x Large Technip Steam Methane Reformers (SMR) with Air Products PSA’s for H2 purification.
• An 18 MW Kawasaki Gas Turbine, integrated with both reformers.
• An Air Products Air Separation Unit (ASU) Producing Nitrogen and Oxygen.
• Amine System for CO2 removal (aMDEA)
• Cryogenic separation and purification of CO.

The customer is Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL), Kochi refinery and the Air Products plant is located within the customer’s site. The products from the Air Products plants go directly to the customer as part of their refinery expansion. There is a high level of integration between BPCL and Air Products with respect to feedstock’s, products and utilities. The products are critical to refinery unit operations.

The plants run on continuous basis and there is a strong emphasis of high reliability and high efficiency with contractual penalties against Air Products for underperformance.

Air Products owns, operates and maintains Hydrogen Plants and ASUs around the globe with Operations in over 50 countries, in excess of 80 hydrogen plants and 350 ASU’s. As such we have a wealth of expertise and have well established work processes in place for the reliable and efficient operation of our plants.

DIMENSIONS

Plant Products (Approximate):

H2:                               16        t/h                   

H2:CO:                         14        t/h                   

N2:                               10,000 Nm3/h  

O2:                               160       Nm3/h

Power:                          18        MW

Number of Direct Reports (approximate): NIL. He shall be one of the 4 shift engineers who work in shifts of 8 hours duration.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering. (Typically, Chemical) or a BSc graduate or diploma in chemical Technology.

• Direct experience in operation of large Steam Methane Reformers for hydrogen production or similar technologies for example ammonia, methanol etc. Experience in Cogen and Gas Turbine operation would be an advantage.

• Minimum 5 years experience in gas, petrochemical, or related industries preferably from Ammonia, HYCO or methanol process industries with an engineering degree or min 10 years of experience in the Ammonia, HYCO or Methanol process with a graduate degree or diploma in chemical Technology.

• Experience in DCS.  Siemens PCS7 will be an added advantage.

• Able to handle communication with customer.

• Good technical knowledge in gas operations and engineering.

• Fluent oral English and excellent written English.

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