Process Engineer

Job Title:

Process Engineer

Job Description

The Process Engineer designs and develops fluid process systems ranging from individual equipment, such as CIP skids, to complete production lines and full plant layouts for food and beverage applications. This role supports projects from initial concept through process design, equipment sizing and specification, procurement, installation, and start-up and commissioning. The Process Engineer collaborates closely with internal teams, contractors, consultants, vendors, and customers to ensure technically sound, efficient, and compliant solutions that meet performance, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

+ Design and lay out fluid process systems, including batching, processing, packaging, CIP/COP, pasteurization, filtration, and heat exchanger applications.

+ Develop and engineer steam, condensate, glycol, tower water, and city water systems, including calculating and verifying cooling and heating loads.

+ Select appropriate pumps, valves, and related components for each application, ensuring proper functionality, reliability, and sanitary design where required.

+ Apply a solid understanding of instrumentation and controls to support process design and system integration.

+ Develop mass balances and use them to validate process design and equipment sizing.

+ Create process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), utility and equipment matrices, project timelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and performance specifications for process equipment.

+ Prepare and manage Requests for Quotation (RFQs) for process equipment and services, and evaluate vendor proposals.

+ Identify and analyze process improvement opportunities, then develop and implement action plans to improve efficiency, throughput, and reliability.

+ Collaborate and interact with equipment vendors to clarify specifications, review designs, and support equipment fabrication and installation.

+ Work within established engineering policies and procedures to ensure consistent, high-quality treatment of customers and adherence to industry standards.

+ Travel to customer facilities to gather project information, perform site assessments, support design and installation activities, and respond to customer needs.

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Requisition or purchase essential parts, materials, and equipment required to execute projects.

+ Manage or supervise field personnel performing work at customer plants, ensuring safety, quality, and adherence to project plans and schedules.

+ Support capital projects by participating in or leading the design and construction of process lines, including quoting, procurement, installation, and commissioning of equipment.

+ Contribute to project management activities by coordinating schedules, communicating status, and aligning with cross-functional engineering disciplines such as mechanical, structural, electrical, and fabrication/installation.

+ Where needed, consult with customers on plant piping issues, efficiency challenges, and line layout optimization, and provide practical, quoted solutions and project coordination.

Essential Skills

+ Approximately 8+ years of experience in process engineering or a closely related field, preferably within food, beverage, or dairy processing environments.

+ Demonstrated experience with fluid flow and fluid processing systems in manufacturing settings.

+ Strong knowledge of batching, processing, packaging, CIP/COP, pasteurization, filtration, and heat exchanger systems.

+ Understanding of thermal dynamics and heat transfer, including experience with heating and cooling system design and related engineering calculations.

+ Experience designing steam, condensate, glycol, tower water, and city water systems, including sizing for cooling and heating loads.

+ Proficiency in 2D AutoCAD for generating P&IDs and conceptual layouts from scratch, including isometric drawings.

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Experience with 3D modeling for process and piping design, preferably using Plant 3D or similar tools.

+ Experience in dairy or aseptic processing, including familiarity with mix-proof valve clusters and their operation.

+ Hands-on capital project experience,…