Job Description

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.

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Why work at AdvanSix?

• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being

• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program

• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development

• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences

Position Summary: The Piping & Mechanical Design Lead is responsible for managing the mechanical/piping design team. The mechanical design team provides design support for capital projects. The Design Leader is responsible for ensuring all work is completed in adherence to industry codes and standards; AdvanSix corporate and plant standards; and plant health, safety, and environmental guidelines and requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the mechanical/piping design team in supporting capital projects
• Resource planning and scheduling to meet project objectives and schedule milestones
• Review design drawing packages for completeness and correctness and ensure compliance to AdvanSix drafting and design standards.
• Prepare estimates for scoping and detailed piping design
• Engage in interdisciplinary project reviews with mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation teams
• Conduct or champion mechanical design review meetings with all stakeholders
• Ensure QA/QC (Quality Assurance/Quality Control) requirements are adequately implemented and utilized by the design team
• Monitor project quality, schedule, and productivity for mechanical design work
• Establish relationships with the Capital Projects team (multidiscipline engineers, designers, project managers, process engineers, etc.)
• Evaluate direct reports’ performance, prepare development plans, succession plans, and hold regular performance assessment meetings
• Ensure all team goals and metrics are met or exceeded
• Drive the mechanical design team to produce high quality deliverables and seek opportunities to maximize efficiency and accuracy
• Some travel is required (10%)

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Piping Design
• Minimum 15 years of experience in mechanical/piping design in the petrochemical, power, pharmaceutical, or similar industries required
• Proficient in AutoCAD (2D and 3D)
• Strong mechanical and piping design background

Additional Qualifications:

• Leadership experience managing mechanical/piping designers in the petrochemical, power, pharmaceutical, or similar industries
• Experience with CADWorx design software
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Must be customer-focused; dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively communicate in English
• Excellent time management skills and ability to perform multiple tasks at a high level of quality

The expected base pay for this position is $104,600 - $156,800

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match. Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan.

Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages.

The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance. All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans.

At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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