Senior Process Engineer

Qualifications

• 10+ years of knowledge and experience with process and product design and development, safety enhancements, commissioning and start-up services, cost estimation and control, plant construction, and project management in the field of Chemical Engineering
• Experience in chemical processing, specialty chemicals, and fertilizer, helpful

• Have or willing to obtain a Professional Engineering license
• Effective communication through verbal, written, and electronic formats
• Ability to maintain a professional, courteous, and tactful working relationship with other employees and with clients and visitors
• Ability to maintain a clean work environment and a professional appearance while on the job
• Must be detail oriented and well organized

• Report to the Director of Process Engineering
• Respect and adhere to all active contracts and confidentiality agreements with Applied Chemical Technology and associated clients
• Evaluate raw materials, processes, and products
• Ensure that equipment operates within its specification and capacities
• Manage projects, including process design and development, construction, installation, operation, and supervision
• Cost control to meet deadlines and perform work within financial budgets
• Design all levels of process development, including lab‑scale testing, pilot plant scale, and full‑scale plants
• Collect data required to make improvements and/or process modifications
• Oversee and/or troubleshoot plant/process problems and plant expansion
• Work with clients and other staff to evaluate and supply the clients’ needs
• Travel, including international travel, as needed

• Coordinate the use of both hands to perform tasks
• Ability to stand for long hours on plant floor during pilot plant runs and full‑scale plant start‑ups
• Lifting and handling of boxes and other equipment of 50lbs
• Reaching overhead, stooping, kneeling, walking, talking, hearing, reading and seeing

Hours:

40 hrs/week; must be able to work on short notice and work extra hours, including weekends, if needed.

Benefits:
Comprehensive benefit package including medical, 401k, annual leave and other available after probationary period.