Process Engineer

Job title:

Process Engineer

Reporting to:
Process, Compliance & Safety Engineering Manager

Location:

Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

Hours:

40 hours per week

You will be a driven Process Engineer within our dynamic manufacturing environment. You will lead the design, implementation, control, and optimisation of industrial processes to enhance safety, efficiency, productivity, and sustainability. This is a critical role that works cross-functionally to deliver continuous improvement, support capital projects, and ensure operational excellence across the business.

• Support the site’s major accident hazard management systems.
• Participate in and facilitate Hazard studies (HAZOP, LOPA) and risk assessments.
• Ensure plant modifications follow Management of Change (MOC) procedures.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the COMAH Safety Report.
• Support operations with technical input into processes and equipment to enhance safety, efficiency and productivity.
• Investigate and troubleshoot process deviations and performance issues.
• Monitor plant performance using process data and historian systems.
• Support scale up and commissioning activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve yield, energy efficiency, and plant reliability.
• Lead or support process optimisation and debottlenecking projects.
• Conduct root cause analysis for process incidents and reliability issues.
• Support capital improvement projects from concept through implementation.
• Perform process calculations, mass and energy balances, and equipment performance evaluations.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, including SOPs, Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) and Operating and safety envelopes.
• Contribute to ensuring the plant operation complies with COMAH regulations, Environmental permits, Company engineering standards.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation and engineering records.
• Collaborate with the quality department to follow quality procedure.

If you have a genuine passion for what you do and want to work in an environment that celebrates progress, teamwork and dedication, you’re what we’re after.

• BSc/BEng Chemical Engineer or equivalent relevant academic qualification
• 3+ years relevant industry experience
• Knowledge of distillation, extraction and filtration technologies.
• Experience in process safety studies (HAZID, HAZOP, PHR, LOPA)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams.
• Confident with MSOffice.

• NEBOSH general certificate/IOSH managing safety qualification
• Formal Process safety training
• Working towards Chartership
• Experience with distributed control systems (DCS)
• Experience with COMAH
• Functional Safety Knowledge
• Human factors knowledge

We offer an excellent package which includes a competitive salary, a generous holiday entitlement as well as the opportunity to purchase additional holiday, a discretionary annual bonus, BUPA medical and dental schemes, pension scheme with 9% employer contribution, life assurance, group income protection, SAYE schemes and free shares. With the encouragement and development you need, we help you to become your ultimate you.

Beyond building a successful career, we also support the wishes and ambitions of our staff outside of the office in achieving a health work/life balance - the wellbeing of our staff is paramount to us, which we actively promote and support by regularly delivering a variety of wellbeing initiatives and offering responsibility based flexibility. There will also be opportunities to be actively involved in community and charity projects and to take part in numerous subsidized social events.