Process Engineer

Process Engineer

The Process Engineer role focuses on driving industrial investment projects that enhance production performance, process safety, and operational excellence. You will contribute to strategic CAPEX projects of significant value, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, equipment suppliers, and engineering partners to design and implement robust, compliant, and efficient process solutions. This position plays a key role in ensuring high product quality, operational efficiency and reliability, and continuous improvement through technology and best practices.

Responsibilities include participating in process-related activities led by external engineering companies and internal project teams, ensuring alignment with project objectives and standards. You will contribute to the development, review, and updating of process specifications, standards, and operating procedures to maintain safe, efficient, and compliant operations. Support process standardization efforts by helping define optimal work sequences and documenting best practices across production lines and projects.

Perform detailed process reviews to identify technical and operational improvement opportunities, focusing on safety, quality, efficiency, and reliability. Carry out feasibility studies for production process improvements and contribute to the evaluation, selection, and implementation of recommended solutions. Contribute to knowledge sharing by preparing and maintaining technical documentation related to internal process standards and methodologies. Support process activities during both design and production phases, including process design, scale-up, validation, and troubleshooting of manufacturing processes.

Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, including operations, maintenance, quality, and R&D, to ensure that process solutions are practical, sustainable, and aligned with business needs. Promote process safety and regulatory compliance by integrating safety and quality considerations into all process design and improvement activities. Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging process engineering and manufacturing best practices to enhance overall plant performance.

Essential skills include a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering, strong interest in industrial processes and manufacturing environments, experience or strong aptitude in process engineering, manufacturing engineering, or related industrial roles, understanding of capital equipment and its role in manufacturing and process improvement projects, knowledge of manufacturing processes and continuous improvement methodologies, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities applicable to complex industrial processes, a curious, proactive mindset with motivation to grow in a technical, project-oriented role, and fluency in English as the primary working language.

Additional skills and qualifications include experience contributing to process improvement initiatives in industrial or manufacturing settings, familiarity with process standardization, including defining work sequences and documenting best practices, exposure to feasibility studies and evaluation of process improvement options, ability to collaborate effectively with external engineering companies, equipment suppliers, and internal project teams, comfort working in a global organization with diverse teams and stakeholders, interest in working on strategic CAPEX projects and industrial investments, motivation to participate in continuous training, mentoring, and international industrial projects, and interest in sustainability-focused industrial projects and contributing to large-scale, meaningful production initiatives.

Job type and location:
This is a contract position based out of Burlington, IL.

Pay and benefits:

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $63.00/hr individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and…