Production Engineer
Braskem America · La Porte, TX
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Production
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 2+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level production role at Braskem America (chemicals) in La Porte, TX. Develop, modify, and/or review operational procedures.
- They ask for
- 2+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $106k–$145k.
Median of the low and high ends of 25 live postings that list pay, out of 119 production engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Texas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 118 other live production postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (2+ vs 5+)
Typical $105k–$143k, from 23 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 43%
- Lean 33%
- ✓ Root cause 25%
- Six Sigma 20%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Requirements
- ✓Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering with internship or other experience working as a chemical engineer with relevant experience in the petrochemical or chemical process industries.
- ✓Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM)
- ✓Knowledge of process simulation software such as Aspen Plus/HYSYS.
- ✓Possess skills to be able to contribute in a team environment and establish work relationships with onsite and offsite functional groups to achieve results. Incumbent must be self-motivated, and results oriented.
- ✓Excellent written and verbal communications as well as computer skills. Ability to define problems, collect and interpret data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience
- ✓Experience in a polymer production plant
- ✓2 years of experience
What we offer
At Braskem, we offer more than just a competitive pay package. Our total rewards package includes a wide range of benefits you need for every stage of your life. Our benefits include:
- ✓Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- ✓Retirement Benefits
- ✓Maternity and Paternity Leave
- ✓Life Insurance
- ✓Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- ✓Teladoc
- ✓A wide range of voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance, Legal and ID Theft Insurance
- ✓Flexible work schedules like 9/80 schedules for eligible team members
Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.
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With a strategy centered on people and sustainability, Braskem is engaged in contributing to the value chain to strengthen the Circular Economy. Braskem’s 9,000 team members dedicate themselves every day to improving people's lives through sustainable solutions in chemicals and plastics. With its corporate DNA rooted in innovation, Braskem offers a comprehensive portfolio of plastic resins and chemical products for diverse industries, such as food packaging, construction, manufacturing, automotive, agribusiness, health and hygiene, and more. With 40 industrial units in Brazil, the United States, Mexico, and Germany, Braskem exports its products to clients in over 70 countries.
Braskem America is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Braskem S.A. headquartered in Philadelphia. The company is the leading producer of polypropylene in the United States, with six production plants located in Texas, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as an Innovation and Technology Center in Pittsburgh and a New Renewable Innovation Center in Lexington, which focuses on leveraging groundbreaking developments in biotechnology and chemical catalysis. For more information, visit www.braskem.com/usa .
Department: Production
Location: La Porte, TX
Travel Involved: 0-10%
Job Type: Full-time
Description
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize operating unit key process variables to drive process and product improvements while maintaining a strong safety and environmental compliance focus. Apply technical knowledge to detect causes of deviations in quality, capacity, yield, and energy consumption or provide training to less experienced engineers.
Include
- •Develop and implement systems to improve and sustain value across health, safety, environment, production rates, equipment reliability, cost, and quality.
- •Follow and direct day to day plant operations.
- •Participate and/or lead Continuous Improvement teams and subteams.
- •Develop initial scope and business case for improvement projects. Support Capital projects through the FEL process. Assist in developing commissioning and start-up procedures for new equipment.
- •Lead root cause analysis studies to resolve plant process and equipment related issues.
- •Provide technical data for Environmental events such as process leaks and ECAT tasks.
- •Participate, lead, and approve MOCs and PSSRs.
- •Participate in PHAs.
- •Responsible for review and resolution of action items as a result of HES, ISO, Insurance audits, and PHA studies.
- •Monitor intermediate and product analyses and statistical data.
- •Assists in the investigation and resolution of customer complaints and nonconforming products.
- •Develop, modify, and/or review operational procedures.
- •Help coordinate and plan special product trials.