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This position also provides technical support to the Operations and Maintenance Departments. The successful candidate will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Logistics, Environmental Health&Safety, and Quality to develop and execute projects and improvement opportunities for the Hanging Rock plant.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nDevelop and implement projects which improve the profitability, operability, reliability, safety, and environmental performance of the Hanging Rock Plant in accordance with the AmSty Business Plan and plant specific objectives.\nDevelop and prioritize the plant’s 5-year capital plan.\nWork closely with Operations, Maintenance, Logistics, EH&S, and Quality to understand improvement opportunities across these functional areas. \nManage the plant’s Value Creation program. \nUtilize plant, other AmSty resources, and third parties to ensure a detailed scope of work is developed for all projects and project alternatives and costs are thoroughly evaluated and agreed upon by key stakeholders. \nPrepare bid specifications, evaluate bids, and select engineering and construction contractors.\nMonitor/manage the design and execution of projects to ensure that they are engineered and built according to key project plans and company standards.\nMonitor/control the cost and timing of projects to keep expenditures and schedules within the limits authorized by management.\nManage the start-up of projects and project closure activities in a safe and timely manner so that the project benefits can be fully realized.\nAdhere to the Management of Change process and monitor changes associated with project work to assure desired results are occurring\nProvide turnaround support, troubleshooting and engineering analysis as required.\nServe as the plant representative on the AmSty Improvement Engineers’ network.\nProvide root cause investigation technical support as needed.\nParticipate in plant audits, including Tech Center, ESRA, RC-PHA, OEMS, and FM Global.\nPerform other duties as assigned or needed.\nJob Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering with 3+ years of experience in project management and execution.\nStrong commitment to personal safety.\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills.\nBroad generalized knowledge of chemical, civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control engineering. Broad generalized knowledge of industry design codes, standards, and practices.\nBroad generalized knowledge of personnel safety, process safety, and environmental principles / regulations.\nProject management and administrative skills necessary to plan, organize, coordinate, and control the development and execution of a project - including cost and schedule control.\nAbility to manage multiple assignments simultaneously.\nExcellent technical and problem-solving skills to identify alternatives to challenges presented and select the most appropriate solution with minimal guidance or precedence.\nPreferred:\nExperience in a chemical processing or refinery environment a plus.\nKnowledge of a structured project management or project development and execution process a plus.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3259,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Plastics & Polymers","Chemical Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T19:31:48Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/amsty-projectimprovement-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/amsty-projectimprovement-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T19:48:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1241,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":670079},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=670079"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Famsty-projectimprovement-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Famsty-projectimprovement-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Famsty-projectimprovement-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/amsty-projectimprovement-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Famsty-projectimprovement-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3885737}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"amsty.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3885737},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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