Job Description
Job Description
Process Engineer
Location: Travel to operating plants as needed (≈20%)
Employment: Full-time
Role Summary
Support operating ethanol plants by troubleshooting process issues and delivering timely, cost-effective solutions. Prepare design packages (equipment specs, drawings, and P&ID updates) and help manage projects through completion, including schedule tracking.
Key Responsibilities
- Diagnose plant issues and implement corrective actions to improve safety, reliability, quality, and cost.
- Prepare engineering design packages: equipment specifications, P&ID updates, and change documentation.
- Build material & energy balances for new and developing processes with input from senior engineers.
- Design, lay out, and improve equipment and unit operations for industrial-scale ethanol processes.
- Analyze procedures/equipment to reduce cycle time and operating cost.
- Design processes for movement and storage of liquids, solids, and gases.
- Develop measurement and control approaches based on lab, pilot, and plant data.
- Determine effective arrangements of unit operations, balancing technical, economic, operability, and safety considerations.
- Lead/coordinate activities of operators/technicians on equipment such as condensers, evaporators, pumps, columns, heat exchangers, valves, tanks, boilers, compressors, pipelines, and centrifuges.
- Perform tests and collect data (e.g., temperature, density, specific gravity, pressure) to monitor and control production.
- Apply chemical engineering principles to address environmental and regulatory requirements.
- Issue technical information to customers and support external communications as needed.
- Track project timelines and support projects from concept to completion.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering (or closely related technical discipline) required.
- 1-3 years of process engineering or related experience/training required in a Chemical Plant
Skills
- Proficient with MS Office, Adobe, and AutoCAD.
- Strong attention to detail; excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.