Mechanical Engineer

Overview

FutureFuel Chemical Company in Batesville, Arkansas, is looking for an experienced Mechanical Engineer for our Project Engineering Department.

About The Position

The Project Engineering Group includes Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Technologists who work together to contributes to the success of the company by providing engineering support to Manufacturing, Utilities, and Maintenance.

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.

Required Qualifications

• Requires a BS degree in mechanical engineering from a curriculum that is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology or an equivalent. An equivalent may consist of a degree in mechanical engineering from a non-accredited curriculum which contains similar courses as an accredited degree. Additional outside study to compensate for any academic deficiency is also required.
• Requires the demonstrated ability to independently perform professional mechanical engineering work of a difficult and complicated nature.
• If in a position of leadership, requires the demonstrated ability to effectively work with, direct, train, develop, and plan the work of a group of employees.

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.

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. Visit Batesville at cityofbatesville.com.