Senior Process Engineer

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Posting Date: 20 Oct 2026

City:
Houston

Location:

Houston, TX, US, 77070 Chicago, IL, US, 60603 Lisle, IL, US, 60532

Contract Type:
Permanent

Division:
Plant Engineering

Level of experience:
Senior

RINA is a global knowledge company whereexpertisetravels across borders, disciplines, and industries. Every day, we collaborate on solving complex challenges that no single field could tackle alone. With a presence in more than 70 countries and 160 years of heritage, we turn individual know-howinto collective progress.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Process Engineer to join our office in Houston, TX or Chicago/Lisle, IL
within the
Plant Engineering Division.

$130,000 - $180,000 commensurate with education and experience

The Senior Process Engineer will act as lead process engineer for a major oil product storage terminal project, leading and coordinating the process engineering activities throughout the project execution.

The role will be responsible for defining and developing the overall process design and operating philosophy of the facility, ensuring safe, reliable, efficient, and compliant operation. This Engineer will provide technical leadership to the process engineering team and coordinate closely with project management and all relevant engineering disciplines.

Lead Process Engineering

Activities:

• Serve as Process Engineering technical lead.
• Plan and oversee discipline activities and deliverables.
• Define design basis, criteria, operating philosophy, cases, and facility process requirements.
• Coordinate and review assigned engineers’ work.
• Manage interfaces with other disciplines and project functions.

Process Design and Development, Lead development, review and execution of:

• Process Design Basis and Design Criteria;
• Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs);
• Heat and Material Balances;
• Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs);
• Process and hydraulic calculations; line sizing and pressure-drop calculations;
• process equipment and instrument datasheets;
• process control and operating philosophies.
• Define product receipt, storage, transfer, recirculation, and dispatch requirements.
• Set design flows, operating and simultaneous-operation cases, and equipment capacities.
• Develop and review terminal transfer and distribution hydraulic models.
• Help define and optimize tank farms, pumps, manifolds, and loading/unloading systems.

Technical Leadership and Coordination:

• Guide and mentor assigned Process Engineers.
• Review and technically approve calculations, specifications, datasheets, PFDs, P&IDs, and other deliverables.
• Coordinate with Piping, Mechanical, Instrumentation & Control, Electrical, Civil, Layout, Fire Protection, and Process Safety.
• Help the Project Engineering Manager resolve multidisciplinary issues.
• Join technical meetings and design reviews with clients and stakeholders.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, design issues, interface gaps, and missing information.

Process Safety and Regulatory Compliance:

• Ensure design meets project requirements, applicable codes, standards, and regulations.
• Provide process input to safety and hazard identification activities.
• Join HAZID, HAZOP, and other design and safety reviews as required.
• Support shutdown, isolation, safeguarding, and emergency operating philosophies.
• Align Process Safety and Fire Protection input with design and operating scenarios.

Design Optimization and Project Execution:

• Optimize facility configuration while maintaining safety, operability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate design alternatives and recommend technically justified solutions.
• Define process requirements and constraints for plot plans and equipment layouts.
• Support equipment…