Chemical Engineer

Location: Cottage Grove, Minnesota / Quapaw, Oklahoma

Employment

Terms:

Permanent, Full Time

The Chemical Engineer will function as an on‑site engineer at both Cottage Grove, MN and Quapaw, OK, along with supporting other facilities remotely.

Cottage Grove, MN:
This position will help support our customer’s Cottage Grove, MN chemical facility as an engineer and project manager. Working alongside our customer and other C‑P Systems’ employees, the Chemical Engineer will design and facilitate construction of process equipment and piping. Additionally, they may be called upon for other engineering related activities, such as trouble‑shooting, P&, and SOP writing. The position will require presence at the facility at least 2‑3 days.

Quapaw, OK:
This position will help support closure of engineering related tasks in the facility. This may include engineering and design of process equipment and piping, P&, SOP writing, and other PSM related activities. The duration of this portion of the job will last 6‑12 months, and will require travel to the facility of up to 50% during that period.

Once the project in Quapaw, OK is complete, the engineer’s primary job function will remain the same at Cottage Grove, MN, while the remaining time will be spent supporting other customers remotely performing the same engineering and design tasks. Travel to other customer sites will be approximately 10%.

• B.S. Chemical Engineering preferred, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering considered with the correct supplemental experience
• 5‑10 years of prior experience in a chemical manufacturing (or similar) environment
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong communication skills
• Acute attention to detail
• Familiarity with CAD software (i.e. AutoCAD, Solid Works, etc.)
• US Citizenship (required by some of our customers for certain intellectual property)
• Expertise in steam system design or ASME pressure vessel design a plus

• Project budgeting, scheduling, and management, with a focus on the process mechanical design
• Project estimation based on engineering/design requirements as well as equipment, instrumentation, and mechanical purchase and installation
• Create process flow diagrams and P&'s
• Size equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, condensers, relief devices, etc.
• Model fluid flows to size piping, equipment, and instrumentation
• Create project instrument and valve lists, and work with vendors to procure quotations
• Offer guidance on control logic for proper process control and safety elements
• Provide process mechanical expertise to design reviews and Process Hazard Analysis’
• Work with design team to model processes and create an end deliverable being a complete mechanical bid package for construction
• Generate piping isometrics for field installation
• Install and start‑up support

Salary: $100K – $120K (based on experience and qualifications)

Cottage Grove, MN:
This position requires full‑time presence at the facility during initial training, when not traveling to Quapaw, OK. Once training is complete, this on‑site presence reduces to 50%, about 2‑3 days a week. The remaining time will be Work From Home, or from the C‑P Systems’ office, if desired.

Quapaw, OK:
This position requires up to 50% on‑site presence, which will be conducted as week‑long durations during the 6‑12 month project period.

Established in 1995 from 3M’s Chemical Division, C‑P Systems specializes in chemical process engineering and process mechanical design. Our team brings deep technical knowledge in chemical processing, piping systems, relief design, and industrial facility engineering.

We deliver precise engineering documentation from concept through construction. Our approach combines process engineering expertise with advanced 3D modeling and laser scanning capabilities to produce construction packages that work in the field. The engineers who designed systems years ago are still with us today – our low turnover means institutional knowledge stays in‑house and gets passed to the next generation through direct mentoring.

We’ve worked across industrial manufacturing facilities for three decades, carrying project memory when teams and organizations change. Our work focuses on getting the technical details right so projects install cleanly, start up successfully, and operate reliably.