For process engineers in O&G & specialty chemicals
A structured tracking tool for process engineers who are great at their jobs and terrible at talking about it.
The problem
Not because you haven't done anything — but because nothing you've done fits into a bullet point.
You've owned HAZOPs, driven yield improvements, held your unit together through turnarounds. But "supported safety initiatives" doesn't capture two years running a PSM program. "Improved efficiency" doesn't reflect a six-month distillation optimization.
The problem isn't your accomplishments. It's that you've never had a system to capture them in the moment — before the details go cold.
And you keep watching colleagues with half your technical depth get credit you can't seem to claim for yourself. Not because they're better at the work. Because they're better at documenting it.
The solution
The Process Engineer Career Evidence System is a structured tracking tool built specifically for engineers in oil & gas, refining, and specialty chemicals.
Think of it like a P&ID for your career. Every contribution flows to a documented business outcome — captured before anyone asks.
Not a course. Not a coaching program. A tool — designed around how engineers actually think.
It gives you a place to log your work as it happens, with built-in prompts that translate PSM, HAZOP, MOC, and operations work into the language of business impact. When review time comes, you're not reconstructing the last 12 months from memory. You're pulling from a record you've already built.
Component 01
Weekly Work Log
Real-time capture, 5 minutes per entry. Log contributions as they happen — before the details go cold. No narrative required at this stage, just the facts.
Component 02
Value Translation Guide
Built-in prompts that map technical work to financial impact (cost savings, yield, downtime avoided) and safety impact (PSM compliance, incidents prevented, risk reduction). Industry-specific metrics already built in: barrels/day, MMBTU, yield %, incident rates.
Component 03
Review Prep Builder
Maps your logged contributions to behavioral competency frameworks — leadership behaviors, core values, collaboration, safety culture. Arrive at your next review with specific, evidenced answers to every competency on the form.
How it works
Download and open
The workbook runs entirely in Excel — no software to install, no account to create, no cloud sync. It's on your machine and nowhere else. Takes about 10 minutes to set up your profile and first entries.
Log weekly — 5 minutes
Every week or two, add what you've been working on. The prompts do the translation work. You describe the technical contribution; the system guides you to the business impact. Over time this becomes automatic.
Arrive at reviews ready
When review season hits, you're not starting from scratch. You're pulling from a year of documented, translated, organized evidence. Self-evaluations that used to take three days take one afternoon. Promotion conversations feel different when you have the receipts.
Who it's for
This was designed specifically for process engineers with 5–15 years in the field who are approaching a career crossroads — and who keep watching less-technical colleagues get credit they can't seem to claim for themselves.
If that's you, this system was built from 23 years of living exactly that frustration.
Coming Soon
The gap between a senior and staff process engineer title is $20–50K per year in most O&G and chemical companies. This system is designed to help you make that case. Founding members get early access and a discounted rate.
About
23 years in the field
Bryan Breaux
Process & Control Engineer — O&G and Specialty Chemicals
I spent over two decades doing technically solid work that I couldn't explain in plain language when it counted. I watched engineers with shallower technical depth advance faster because they knew how to document and communicate what they did.
This system is what I wish someone had handed me at year five. It's not a course on personal branding. It's a tool that does the translation work for you — so you can stay focused on the engineering and show up to every review with your contributions already captured in language that actually lands.
Questions
Ready
The engineers who walk into reviews confident aren't smarter or more accomplished than you. They just started documenting sooner.