Process Engineer

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you, and we bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Process Engineer to join our Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P. business at our Hopewell, VA, manufacturing facility. This is a visible, significant role within the Company and the Engineering function. This position will report to the Engineering Manager.

• Follows the site’s Environmental, Health, Safety, and Quality (EHSQ) Policies and Procedures
• Investigate, discuss, and solve complex problems by interacting with manufacturing departments, contractors, internal, and external customers.
• Manage small-scale projects across the Operations area related to changes that reduce costs, increase reliability, demonstrate new technology, or enhance compliance and safety.
• Provide plant and process troubleshooting skills to manufacturing assets, ensuring downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Lead and participate in structured problem solving (i.e., 5 Whys, Fishbone, Fault Tree, etc) to eliminate chronic operating challenges; provide recommendations and support the implementation of corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Provide technical expertise to develop and support equipment and process improvement projects
• Develop and update documentation (P&’s, EFD’s, SOP’s, etc) to support safe and consistent manufacturing
• Execute and act as an engineering representative in the Management of Change (MOC) process
• Act as an engineering representative in Combustible Dust Assessments (CDA)
• Perform relief valve calculations under the direction of the Process Safety Engineer

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or other Engineering or Technology Degree
• 7 + years of chemical plant manufacturing experience
• Proven self-starter with urgency for delivering results
• Team Player with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proven data analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Proven planning and organization skills.

• Previous experience with cellulose-based chemistries
• Previous experience with dry powder conveyance and packaging
• Control Systems (preferably Emerson Delta-V)
• Aspen Manufacturing system experience
• Knowledge of and/or use of Lean Six Sigma
• Previous experience in Production Operations
• Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Hazard Analysis - HAZOP, PHA, Good Manufacturing Practices, ISO Systems

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against based on disability.