Senior Technical Project Engineer

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Bonus based on performance
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Vision insurance

Auris Noble is a vertically integrated recovery and refining company that manages high-value critical and strategic materials generated by aerospace, defense, telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, and other industries. We develop science-driven solutions for recovering and upscaling complex and previously underserved material streams containing precious, refractory, rare earth, and strategic metals. Our capabilities span laboratory development, analytical chemistry, pilot operations, commercial-scale chemical processing, thermal treatment, metal recovery, and production of refined materials.

Auris Noble operates multiple facilities and produces materials under an ISO 9001:2015 quality management system.

Provide senior technical integration and hands-on engineering leadership across multiple process, equipment, facility, and production work streams. This role translates program objectives involving multiple unit operations into practical engineering requirements and helps technical teams move safely and efficiently from concept and pilot work through commissioning, qualification, and production release to full scale manufacturing.

This position will lead one or more company growth programs involving facility expansion, process design and scale-up, equipment installation and commissioning, recovery and separation of complex critical material mixtures, and transition of new or improved processes into sustained production. Responsibilities are overarching and will evolve by project phase to include P&n, requirements development, vendor coordination, ES&H priorities, pilot trials, qualification, documentation, training, production support, and continuous improvement.

Auris Noble offers a full-time, on-site position with benefits that may include health, dental and vision insurance; paid time off and holidays; 401(k) matching; quarterly bonuses; annual profit sharing; and a planned annual plant shutdown, subject to plan terms and company policy.

• Lead or coordinate multidisciplinary engineering work involving multiple chemical processing, metal recovery, thermal operations, solids handling, filtration, utilities, and supporting plant systems.
• Translate process needs into functional, performance, equipment, utility, layout, materials-of-construction, instrumentation, and safety requirements.
• Develop and review process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation information, layouts, equipment specifications, vendor proposals, calculations, and commissioning plans.
• Lead technical vendor evaluation, factory testing, capital equipment selection, installation, utility tie-ins, dry runs, and startup.
• Plan and oversee installation qualification, operational qualification, and performance qualification activities, including protocols, acceptance criteria, deviations, and closeout records.
• Integrate work across plant leadership, subteam leads, chemists, engineers, maintenance, production, quality, ESH, procurement, and program management.
• Lead technical risk reviews, root-cause investigations, design changes, management-of-change activities, and corrective actions.
• Use pilot and production data to evaluate throughput, recovery, yield, product quality, reliability, waste generation, and operating cost.
• Review and approve SOPs, technical reports, training materials, schedules, decision packages, and project status inputs.
• Mentor engineers and technical staff and help establish consistent engineering and project execution practices.

• Bachelor's degree in chemical, mechanical, metallurgical, materials, manufacturing, or related engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant industrial engineering, capital project, commissioning, or manufacturing experience; an advanced degree may substitute for part of the experience.
• Demonstrated experience taking equipment or processes from requirements and design through startup and sustained operation.
• Working knowledge of industrial chemical or metals processing, materials compatibility, process safety, utilities, equipment reliability, and production controls.
• Experience leading technical reviews and coordinating multiple engineering disciplines.

• Professional Engineer license, project management credential, or Lean/Six Sigma training.
• Experience in metal refining,…