Process Engineer - Wilmington, NC | ActiveQ-Clearance Required or Eligible! Engineering

We are seeking a Process Engineer to support the design, development, testing, and commissioning of advanced process systems for next-generation enrichment technology.

Reporting to the Mechanical Engineering Manager, this position plays a key role in translating process requirements, performance objectives, and scientific concepts into practical engineering solutions for first-of-a-kind equipment.

The Process Engineer will support separator and cascade systems, UF? feed/product/tails systems, gas handling equipment, enrichment performance, and Test Loop operations.

Q-Clearance Required or Eligible

• Support development of process requirements, operating envelopes, and process design inputs for enrichment-related systems.
• Prepare and review mass balances, energy balances, P&IDs, process flow diagrams, system descriptions, and design basis inputs.
• Complete calculations and analyses to support component sizing for pumps, compressors, valves, flow meters, pressure relief devices, piping, and other components typically found within a chemical processing facility.
• Help define normal operating conditions, off-normal conditions, process limits, and key performance parameters.
• Build and model process simulations using platforms such as ChemCAD, Comsol, Microsoft Excel, and MATLAB/Simulink.
• Work with mechanical design and systems engineering to ensure process requirements are incorporated into equipment and system designs.
• Provide process engineering input to design reviews, hazard reviews, readiness reviews, and configuration-controlled documentation.
• Support development of test plans, test objectives, acceptance criteria, commissioning plans, and system readiness documentation.
• Analyze test data to evaluate enrichment performance, system behavior, process stability, and operating limits.
• Use test results to recommend updates to process requirements, operating parameters, system designs, or future test plans.
• Support Test Loop operations during planning, startup, testing, troubleshooting, and commissioning.
• Assist with identification of instrumentation needs, control points, alarm limits, and data collection requirements.
• Provide process engineering input to hazard analyses, safety basis development, and licensing-related documentation.
• Document technical findings, assumptions, conclusions, and recommendations clearly and consistently.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with chemical process systems, gas handling systems, vacuum systems, or similar industrial process equipment.
• Experience supporting process requirements, mass/energy balances, P&IDs, operating envelopes, or process system documentation.
• Experience supporting test planning, commissioning, troubleshooting, startup, or operation of complex process systems.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and ability to connect process behavior with equipment design and operating performance.
• Ability to work effectively with mechanical design, systems engineering, test engineering, operations, and process science teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering or related scientific discipline
• Experience with UF?, uranium processing, nuclear fuel cycle systems, or other hazardous chemical process systems.
• Experience with enrichment, isotope separation, cascade systems, or related process technologies.
• Experience supporting R&D test systems, pilot plants, prototype equipment, or technology maturation programs.
• Familiarity with regulated environments, safety basis documentation, licensing support, or process hazard analysis.
• Experience with instrumentation, data analysis, controls interfaces, and process performance evaluation.
• Experience working with first-of-a-kind equipment in an iterative design, test, and commissioning environment.

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position:
Successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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