Responsibilities:

• Provide input to business development and upfront project execution efforts
• Provide consultation on process issues and designs
• Identify a pathway to/and evaluate alternate process technologies
• Identify department procedure requirements, gaps in procedures, and help draft process department procedures
• Develop and evaluate conceptual process designs
• Conduct inter-discipline reviews and highlight important design aspects to other departments
• Collect process data that is not readily available and make design decisions based on limited process information
• Develop complex process simulations including HTRI etc. by utilizing the correct thermodynamic property packages and understand the limitations of simulation
• Develop and/or confirm/check relief device scenarios and calculate estimated required relief loads
• Develop complex equipment and vessel process designs
• Develop execution plans for projects including fast track and long lead item identification
• Identify the necessity for process control interlocks
• Mentor young engineers by providing direction and effectively delegating work to other engineers on the team
• Develop comprehensive process scopes of work
• Solve client operating problems / troubleshoot existing processes
• Recommend potential instruments and specific instrumentation technologies for applications
• Recognize project opportunities when working with clients on other projects
• Utilize estimated solutions to engineering problems versus an exact solution
• Develop process control strategies
• Utilize the correct staff level for project tasks in order to help control budget
• Identify and resolve client design errors, open issues, or conflicting information on projects
• Participate in Process Hazard Analysis
• Develop material balances for projects
• Manage process projects of varying complexity
• Write process department ECN’s (Engineering Change Notices)
• Execute P&ID walk-down efforts or field verification of P&ID’s
• Utilize industry codes and standards in designs and apply them accordingly
• Use familiarity with process technologies and standard refining process to develop designs
• Interact with vendors regarding packaged processes and technologies for inclusion in process designs
• Check process data on instrument data sheets and recognize the applicability/limitations of the instrument technology selected
• Track hours used to execute project tasks, review projects schedules, and complete efforts within allowed budget and schedule
• Identify out of scope work on projects and learn to resolve issues with project management
• Demonstrated ability in applying engineering judgment
• Assist in reviewing resumes, interviewing, and evaluating potential new hires
• All other duties as assigned

Technical Competencies and Skill Sets:

• Able to apply basic fundamentals in Chemical Engineering including fluid dynamics, chemistry, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, process unit operations and separations, basic reaction kinetics and reaction design theory,  material and heat balances, etc.
• Understand PFD and P&ID symbology, layout, standards, and workflow
• Understand the different stages of P&IDs development and check P&IDs against the development stages
• Able to modify P&IDs and check modifications against CAD drafting standards and client standards
• Able to develop demolition P&IDs
• Able to develop and maintain drawing lists, line lists, equipment lists, and specialty items lists
• Able to read, understand, and utilize piping isometrics and plot plans in order to perform hydraulic calculations for compressible, incompressible and two-phase systems including dense phase and dilute phase pneumatic conveying
• Demonstrate the ability to perform and document process calculations that can be easily checked
• Develop process simulations and is knowledgeable of physical property estimation packages
• Develop physical property data for the selection of instrumentation
• Understand the hierarchy of process documents in process designs
• Knowledgeable of typical instrumentation types and their principles of operation
• Demonstrated capability to accurately check work produced at all discipline skill levels
• Good computer skills and familiarity with common office software as well as specialty process engineering software such as Aspen HYSYS and MathCAD
• Demonstrated understanding of process design equations and their applicability to design engineering
• Demonstrated ability to generate Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs)
• Ability to develop process man-hour estimates for projects
• Ability to review vendor equipment designs and data for suitability to the process design
• Ability to develop process control strategies
• Capable of drafting a process scope of work document
• Capable of developing a Process Design Basis
• Able to specify specialty items and generate specialty item data sheets
• Demonstrated ability to size, select, specify, and design pressure relief devices, inlet an outlet piping, and effluent handling systems
• Able to set process design conditions and develop equipment designs/sizes along with the required data sheets

People Skills

• Personable and able to work easily with others at all levels
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Responsible and has ownership of projects and keeps management properly informed on project issues
• Comfortable working alone or in a team environment
• Ability to think critically and logically to solve problems in a timely manner
• Dependable and self-motivated with strong ethical principles
• Understand the collaborative requirements of client interaction, tactfulness, respect, and cost/value relationship of projects
• Understands what questions are acceptable for the client and what needs to be resolved by Valdes
• Capable of serving as a mentor and giving sound technical advice to less experienced staff
• Provide leadership on projects where process is involved

Organizational Skills:

• Must be well organized and able to multitask
• Able to commit to and meet assignment deadlines and understand typical project deliverables
• Able to review and execute process work based on a budget and schedule
• Ability to set and track goals for themselves and staff working under their supervision
• Capable of coordinating work with other departments to achieve project milestones
• Able to drive efforts to completion and finish work
• Ability to commit to and meet project deadlines and driven to provide outstanding customer service to both internal and external customers
• Collect and maintain process supporting documentation for calculations and project decisions made by the process engineer
• Able to effectively delegate work to less experienced employees
• Take ownership of work through project completion 
• Must keep work are neat, clean, and organized

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher Chemical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience in the chemical and refining process industries
• Eligible to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future