Engineer - Production Planning
Westlake · Lake Charles, LA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 1+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- Today
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level production role at Westlake (chemicals) in Lake Charles, LA.
- They ask for
- 1+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- SAP
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Production Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $116k–$160k.
Median of the low and high ends of 275 live postings that list pay, out of 905 production engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Louisiana plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 7 other live production postings in Louisiana.
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (1+ vs 12+)
Similar roles usually ask 12+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 63%
- Root cause 38%
- Lean 38%
- Automation 25%
- Cost reduction 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Westlake in Lake Charles
1 other open role at this site · 3 people we found in production roles at Westlake.
- Process Engineer (PE&O) · Process
Full description from WestlakeAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Qualifications
- ✓Minimum of 1 year of operations, logistics, or quality control experience in various Derivatives and Chlor-Alkali operating units preferred.
- ✓Must be a strong communicator and able to manage complexity.
- ✓Technical degree and SAP experience preferred.
- ✓Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications required
- ✓Successful candidates must satisfy background screening, including motor vehicle record screening, drug testing & pre-employment physical
requirements
before starting work.
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Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.
Summary
An analyst position that manages the movement and coordination between several products and departments to meet the demands and product specifications for our customers.
May include, but are not limited to, the following
- •Communicate with laboratory, operations, shipping, corporate planners and logistics for purposes of product clearances, transfers, and shipments, and equipment outages.
- •Coordinate the activities of the operators relating to the operating mode, product grades, and production quantities needed to meet customer requirements.
- •Review final product tank clearances to ensure customer specifications are met.
- •Review scheduled orders, maintain production rollouts (plans), and product inventories to meet shipment demands.
- •Prepare product inventory for End of Month reconciliation and closing and participate in the closing process.
- •Monitor product transfers for billing purposes. When required, coordinate with Records Dept for operations reporting.
- •Perform SQC reports quarterly and annually.
- •Perform and monitor all production postings and product movements in SAP.
- •Participating in planning major maintenance activities to coordinate production downtime.
- •Facilitate the resolution of customer complaints.
- •Serve as ISO Coordinator.
- •Serve as back-up to the Superintendent-Production, Planning.
Physical demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work environment
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate as normally based in a control room office. Some of the work may be required in the operating units which can require usage of required PPE including safety glasses, hearing protection, etc. May also result in exposure to outside elements and may require usage of stairs and elevators. Travel including air travel or auto travel may occasionally be required.
If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here. You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.