Senior Process Engineer

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.

That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high‑tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries.

We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

The Senior Process Engineer is an onsite role located in Allentown, PA. Approximately 20% domestic and international travel is required to meet business needs.

• Lead and manage major global CAPEX process engineering work packages end-to-end, from ideation and concept study through basic and detailed design, installation, and commissioning until final handover to production; deliver integrated, functional process technology solutions that meet customer needs and business goals.
• Leverage project management principles to function as Process Workstream Lead, ensuring that high quality process work package is delivered in adherence to approved project scope, schedule, and budget while following our Front‑End Loading (FEL) stage‑gate process.
• Lead an integrated team for process engineering design including but not limited to developing scope definitions for manufacturing concepts, analyzing and recommending design options for process optimization and debottlenecking to maximize business value.
• Collaborate with other SME (subject matter expert) groups to integrate advanced automation and smart manufacturing technologies into the manufacturing process design that will improve process control, operator efficiency, risk reduction, safety, and environmental performance.
• Oversee contractor and vendor deliveries within the scope of CAPEX process engineering work packages, and lead factory acceptance test (FAT), site acceptance test (SAT), commissioning and qualification of process equipment.
• Support converting business needs into viable and realistic CAPEX projects and developing the projects through FEL process for improved project approval.
• Provide technical leadership throughout all project phases, ensuring compliance with user requirements specifications, safety standards and corporate sustainability requirements.
• Mentor less experienced process engineers and perform technical reviews to ensure quality and efficiency across all project phases.
• Additional duties as required, i.e., project management.

• BS degree in engineering (preferably chemical engineering) or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in a process engineering environment with strong focus on CAPEX project delivery.

• Proven experience in leading the development and delivery of capital investment projects or significant work packages of projects within an operations or supply chain environment.
• Strong knowledge of process engineering concepts.
• Solid understanding of process control fundamentals.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, COMOS and similar CAE tools.
• Proficiency in ASPEN, ChemCAD, or other process simulation software is considered a plus.
• Proven experience in process safety assessments (e.g., HAZOP, LOPA).
• Ability to work effectively in a mixed environment to solve complex problems.
• Ability to impact project activities, guide and influence peers and…