Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kurita America is seeking an Industry Technical Consultant to support its growing U.S. refining business. The role independently evaluates and improves refinery water and steam systems, conducts technical audits, troubleshoots complex operating problems, develops treatment and reliability recommendations, and supports refinery operations, engineering, reliability, and commercial teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead field audits and technical assessments of refinery boiler, steam, condensate, pretreatment, cooling-water, and related utility systems
- Troubleshoot boiler feedwater, industrial boilers, HRSGs, condensate systems, deaerators, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, and associated treatment programs
- Evaluate refinery-specific reliability issues including hydrocarbon contamination, condensate recovery, hardness breakthrough, corrosion, fouling, steam purity, and chemical-program performance
- Analyze water chemistry, operating data, inspection findings, process conditions, metallurgy, and equipment performance to identify root causes and develop corrective actions
- Develop treatment recommendations, technical reports, SOPs, control strategies, startup/passivation plans, and customer-facing improvement plans
- Support refinery turnarounds, startups, equipment inspections, system transitions, and other technically complex field activities
- Provide senior technical support for strategic refinery opportunities, treatment-program development, technical qualification, and customer presentations
- Mentor field personnel and collaborate with commercial, engineering, technology, operations, reliability, and customer teams
Skills
- • 15+ years of industrial water-treatment experience, including substantial direct experience supporting petroleum refineries and/or integrated petrochemical facilities
- • Recent technical responsibility for refinery boiler and steam-cycle treatment programs
- • Demonstrated experience independently conducting refinery water-system field audits and troubleshooting complex utility-system performance problems
- • Demonstrated technical experience with boiler feedwater, industrial boilers and/or HRSGs, steam and condensate systems, deaerators, boiler internal treatment, pretreatment, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis
- • Demonstrated ability to evaluate relationships among water chemistry, process operations, metallurgy, contamination sources, equipment condition, and refinery reliability
- • Experience converting field observations, analytical data, operating trends, and inspection findings into formal corrective-action recommendations
- • Experience developing and presenting technical reports, treatment strategies, SOPs, or improvement plans directly to refinery engineering, operations, reliability, and management personnel
- • Technical bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of technical education and directly relevant industrial experience
- • Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel up to 50% to U.S. refinery and petrochemical locations
- • Valid Driver's License and acceptable Motor Vehicle Record
- • Experience serving as a regional, national, or corporate technical resource supporting multiple refinery or petrochemical sites
- • Experience with refinery turnarounds, startups, layup/passivation, equipment inspections, and as-found condition assessments
- • Experience developing boiler, steam-cycle, cooling-water, and pretreatment programs for major refinery applications
- • Published or formally presented technical work involving industrial water treatment, boiler/steam chemistry, or utility-system reliability
- • Advanced water-treatment certification and/or participation in recognized technical organizations such as IWC, CTI, USAPWS, ASME, AMPP/NACE, EPRI, or equivalent
Benefits
- Bonus
- 100% Remote - United States
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