Process Engineer, Batch Chemical Manufacturing in Brand-, Fast-Scaling Plant; SPC + Proces

A long-established global leader in advanced electronic materials is expanding an existing plant, reclaiming space inside the facility to stand up a new high-volume production line built to add roughly 50% more throughput. You join early, while it is still being built and commissioned, so the work starts project-focused (reading P&IDs and process flow diagrams, helping specify and bring up new process equipment) and then settles into sustaining process engineering once the line is running.

It is a rare chance to learn a plant from the foundation up instead of inheriting one already dialed in.

• You like being on the production floor, not behind a desk all day.
• You have run real production chemistry, not only lab or pure R&D work.
• You are comfortable around hazardous, reactive chemicals and you put process safety first.
• You wear many hats and move fast in a build-it-now environment.
• Honest note: if you want a mature plant with every process already optimized, or you would rather not work hands-on around industrial chemicals, this is not your role.
• Monitor daily production for quality, cycle time, EHS compliance, and adherence to documented work practices.
• Own Statistical Process Control (SPC) on critical processes and act fast on out-of-control signals.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions on product failures and nonconformances.
• Support specification, installation, and commissioning of new process equipment as the line comes online.
• Prepare periodic statistical reports for customers and support corrective-action requests.
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline (required).
• Hands-on process engineering experience in chemical, specialty-materials, pharmaceutical, coatings and inks, battery, plating, or semiconductor wet-chemical production.
• Real exposure to an OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) covered process running flammable and/or corrosive chemicals (a major plus now, and increasingly a must as the site scales).
• A strong SPC and root-cause toolkit, plus the coachability to grow deeper into the chemistry.
• Authorized to work in the United States. This role does not offer visa sponsorship.

Get in early on a major capacity build-out, make materials that feed sophisticated semiconductor and advanced-electronics customers, work shoulder-to-shoulder with a hands-on site engineering leader, and grow with a function being built from scratch. On-site in West Haven, CT. Base salary $81,470 to $115,000