Chemical Engineer | Projects & Process Improvement

Are you a Chemical Engineer who thrives on solving complex plant problems, improving performance and turning ideas into real-world results?

Join our clients Projects team and play a key role in optimising plant performance, increasing capacity, improving efficiency and reliability, enhancing safety and delivering better product quality
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Working closely with Production, Maintenance, SHEQ, Procurement and other teams, you’ll take projects from concept through execution, commissioning and benefit realisation — while gaining hands‑on exposure to both project engineering and plant operations
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• Identify and deliver process optimisation, debottlenecking and capital projects

• Develop scopes, technical solutions, business cases, budgets and implementation plans

• Lead equipment sizing, process design, specifications, costing and technical reviews

• Troubleshoot production, quality and reliability challenges and drive root-cause solutions

• Plan and oversee laboratory and plant trials, commissioning and process changes

• Analyse plant data to uncover losses, constraints and improvement opportunities

• Drive improvements in production, yield, energy efficiency, cost, reliability and quality

• Support HAZOPs, risk assessments, MOC and incident investigations

• Embed sustainable improvements through SOPs, training, standards and monitoring

• BSc in Chemical Engineering

• 5+ years’ relevant experience in a chemical, manufacturing or industrial plant environment

• Proven experience in process engineering, plant projects, production support or process improvement

• A practical, hands‑on approach with the ability to turn engineering insight into measurable plant results

This is more than a projects role. It’s an opportunity to build deep technical and operational expertise
, work on high‑impact engineering challenges and position yourself for future technical or operational leadership
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And the location?
Durban — where your career can come with sun, sea and sand.