Jesse Mikulec

Process Engineer

ControlRoomsai

Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

Work at the interface of process engineering and machine learning. Build and tune industrial AI models and partner with client teams to interpret anomalies and improve reliability and performance.

Process Engineer

PBF ENERGY

Jul 2025

Provided technical support for hydrotreaters and sulfur recovery units. Identified process safety concerns, optimized unit performance, and improved reliability through monitoring, troubleshooting, and economic analysis. Led several optimization initiatives, including a major cost-saving project that was approved for implementation and expected to save the refinery millions annually. Worked closely with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to resolve upsets, support turnarounds, and evaluate process and equipment changes.

Associate Process Engineer

PBF ENERGY

Jan 2023 - Jul 2025 (2 years 7 months)

Currently oversee operation of FCC (Fluidized Catalytic Cracker) Feed and Product Hydrotreaters Oversaw operation of sulfur recovery units, sour water strippers, amine regeneration units, tail gas units, spent caustic neutralizer, byproduct oil separator, and cooling water tower Use technical knowledge to review, monitor, and respond to process operations in order to identify potential underlying process safety concerns, meet production and quality targets, optimize unit performance and yields, and relieve constraints, improve reliability, and minimize operating expenses Provide support for non-routine events including turnarounds, maintenance, troubleshooting, and projects Support the change management process through evaluation of ope

Associate Control Systems Engineer

Fluor Corporation

Jun 2022 - Dec 2022 (7 months)

Worked on project that included revamping instrumentation and control systems, such as motor operated valves and safety interlocks, for several Coker units to make them consistent with current safety requirements Engineering Construction Field Support: went to refinery weekly before and during turn around and troubleshooted with field to solve technical construction issues Created instrument specification sheets using SPI, revised P&ID’s and wiring diagrams, prepared instrument procurement packages, created instrument IO lists, created cause and effect diagrams, created logic diagrams, and reviewed electrical schematics

Nanofabrication Intern

Nano Precision Medical

Oct 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)

Optimized the process of titanium nanotube formation through anodization for use in drug delivery by performing the process several times with varying parameters and analyzing the results Implemented voltage ramp to fix overheating during anodization process Used Python to control power supply using SCPI commands and program voltage ramp

Research Assistant

University of California Berkeley College of Chemistry

Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 (5 months)

Developed a metric, and MATLAB program, for the environmental friendliness of any chemical process for use in experimental procedure optimization and comparison Metric involved algorithmically evaluating each chemical used in the process based on parameters such as its toxicity, stability, and abundance Amended the procedures of organic chemistry laboratory experiments to maximize environmental friendliness, efficiency, and student learning

Research Intern

University of California Irvine Department of Biomedical Engineering BME

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months)

Worked on two projects with a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. student in Engineering Professor Dr. Marc Madou's laboratory Capillary Origami Project: Developed a MATLAB program that could predict the bending profile of a membrane when exposed to a liquid droplet based on several parameters such as the membrane’s rigidity and geometry, and the liquid droplets density and viscosity Near-Field Electrospinning Project: Optimized the process of near-field electrospinning for depositing polymer microfibers onto silicon microchips by performing the process several times while varying parameters and analyzing the results

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