Chemical Process Engineer

Are you a Chemical Engineering graduate who is tired of  entry level  postings that quietly ask for five years of experience?

We're located onsite in Douglas, GA - about 2 hours from Jacksonville, FL.

Most first engineering jobs hand you a spreadsheet and tell you to wait your turn. This one hands you a process.

We are a specialty chemical manufacturer in Douglas, Georgia, taking customer processes from technology transfer all the way through full plant production. We have two Process Engineer seats open on a small, tight-knit engineering team, and we are hiring people who want ownership early instead of five years from now.

This is a hands-on role with real responsibility from the start. You will own an assigned process end to end: the technical work, the plant execution, the materials that keep it running, and the reporting that goes back to the customer. Expect your week to break into roughly thirds. A third in meetings, reports, and spreadsheets for customers. A third building work instructions and moving your process forward.

A third out in the plant with operators, looking at the process where it actually runs.

• Take ownership of an assigned process, including batch tracking, work instructions, day-to-day execution, and making sure the raw materials are purchased and on hand.
• Translate customer technology transfer packages into processes that run at plant scale, working through lab, kilo lab, and pilot plant stages.
• Partner with operators, maintenance, and production personnel on the plant floor to troubleshoot live process issues and make procedures usable where the work happens.
• Develop draft block flow diagrams, mass and energy balances, and specifications for raw materials and in-process samples.
• Build cost models for new processes and evaluate profitability before they reach the floor.
• Support Process Safety Management activities, process hazard reviews, CPI practices, and regulatory work including PMN submissions.
• Communicate directly with internal teams and external customers, from operators on the floor to customer leadership.

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Recent graduates with internship or co-op experience are strongly encouraged to apply and are considered on equal footing.
• 0 to 5 years of process engineering, process development, or manufacturing experience.
• Solid applied engineering fundamentals: mass and energy balances, unit operations, and basic process economics. You should be genuinely comfortable with the math.
• The communication skills to work with an operator in the plant one hour and a customer VP the next.
• A self-starter who takes instruction well, asks questions when something is unclear, and does not need daily management to move work forward.
• Dedication and reliability. This is a small team where one person carrying their weight is visible, and so is the opposite.
• Willingness to be on call nights and weekends for your assigned process.

Experience in batch processing is especially relevant here and tends to shorten the ramp. Exposure to scale-up, technology transfer, Process Safety Management, and process cost analysis is highly valued. An MS, MBA, PhD, or PE is welcome and not required.

We offer a base salary starting at $75,000, with room above that for candidates who bring directly relevant experience, plus a target annual bonus of 5% to 10%.

• two weeks of vacation
• five sick days per year
• after one year, entry into our safe harbor 401(k) where the company automatically contributes 3% whether or not you contribute anything yourself.

This role is fully on-site, Monday through Friday, roughly 8 to 5, with on-call responsibility for your process at nights and on weekends. Travel is rare, two to four times a year  are hiring locally for these openings and are not offering relocation at this time.

Two seats are open, and this is a place where people actually grow. Our current General Manager started here as a new graduate and worked her way up. If you want your first engineering job to be an actual engineering job, this is the one.