Location: Batesville,AR, USA
Overview
FutureFuel Chemical Company in Batesville, Arkansas, is looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer for our Project Engineering Department.
Key Responsibilities
* Providing technical assistance, process improvement, and manufacturing support for
Manufacturing, Utilities, and Maintenance.
* Managing the Pressure Vessel program including calculating and selecting relief devices,
conservation vents, flame arrestors, and rupture disk, maintaining the pressure vessel
database, coordinating with the appropriate state agencies for inspections and licensing,
and providing input to the plant Process Safety Review Committee and other project
engineers on safe implementation of engineering design criteria.
* Solving mechanical engineering problems and distinguishing between the relative merits
of different plans and designs.
* Occasional civil and structural design.
* Troubleshooting and identifying root causes of mechanical problems.
* Working with Chemical Manufacturing, Utilities, and Maintenance to provide
mechanical engineering support for continued production.
* Knowledge of materials of construction, heat exchangers, pumps, centrifuges, pressure
relief devices, piping specifications, and other industrial equipment.
* Working in teams or independently to increase production capacity, improve mechanical
integrity, provide safer operations, or reduce energy requirements.
* Applying sound process economics analysis principles to determine and document
project values.
* Evaluating and specifying new mechanical equipment.
* Maintaining awareness and ties to corporate engineering practices and engineering
resources to help implement projects.
* Assisting with the definition and implementation of capital projects that will result in
process improvements or increased capacity.
* Managing several projects simultaneously and regularly communicating progress to
stakeholders.
* Following safety and quality procedures.
Key Qualifications
The ideal candidate would have direct experience with chemical industry processing equipment specification and design, including pump and fluid flow design, and specification and process modeling and six or more years of engineering experience. A primary responsibility of this position is pressure vessel calculations.
Required Qualifications
Candidates must have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, with a PE license preferred. Experience in an industrial manufacturing facility is preferred.
Working at FutureFuel
* Compensation: We offer competitive compensation packages, including a relocation
program and Advancement Ladder.
* Comprehensive Benefits: We offer excellent medical, dental, and vision insurances, 401k
matching, an employee work-out center, life insurance, parental leave, pet insurance,
tuition reimbursement for continuing education, paid military leave, wellness incentives,
and disability insurance.
* Culture: Expect a company culture that is friendly, inviting, helpful, inclusive,
supportive, dedicated, and full of brilliant team members.
About FutureFuel
FutureFuel Chemical Company (FFCC) is a specialty and fine chemical manufacturing producer with an over forty-year successful plant history. FFCC has three business segments: custom/toll manufacturing, performance chemicals, and biodiesel. FFCC serves a wide variety of markets including pharmaceutical intermediates and products, nylon and polyester fibers, cleaning products, agricultural products, paints and coating, and fuels and energy.
FFCC is a small publicly traded company with approximately 500 employees that has a rich history of complex organic chemistry innovation, excellent environmental stewardship, and excellent health and safety compliance. We are a growing U.S. manufacturer of specialty organic chemicals and premium biofuels. Our company is headquartered in Clayton, St Louis and publicly listed on the NYSE under FF . We have a world class integrated biofuels and specialty chemicals manufacturing facility in Batesville, Arkansas. This Electrical Engineering position is located in at the Batesville plant.
About the Location
Batesville, Arkansas is a small rural town of about 10,000 on the foothills of the Ozark Mountains with excellent area schools, a University of Arkansas 2-year college and Lyon College, a highly rated Liberal Arts College. We are a strong outdoor community with the White River, nearby lakes, parks, bike trails, dog park, walking trails, excellent soccer and baseball/softball facilities, a thriving community and aquatics center and Historic Main Street, and close access to Blanchard Springs Caverns, The Ozark Folk Center, and the Buffalo River, one of the longest undammed rivers west of the Mississippi and the nation's first National River designated by Congress in 1972 to preserve its clean water and other outstanding values. Batesville has a regional health care center, Community Theatre and Arts Council, a strong Chamber of Commerce, Mark Martin NASCAR Museum, and a regional historic museum. Visit Batesville at cityofbatesville.com.