Senior Process Engineer

Responsibilities

• Coordinate work with other departments to achieve project milestones
• Execute P&ID walk-down efforts or field verification of P&ID’s
• Identify and resolve client design errors, open issues, project execution errors or conflicting information on projects
• Participate in Process Hazard Analysis
• Develop material and energy balances as required for projects
• Utilize vendors in the design and selection of process equipment including packaged processes and technologies for inclusion in process designs
• Familiar with process technologies and standard refining processes
• Check process data on instrument data sheets and recognize the applicability/limitations of the instrument technology selected
• Check simple calculations, line lists, equipment lists, specialty items lists and simple equipment data sheets
• Track hours used to execute project tasks, review projects schedules
• Identify out of scope work on projects.
• Learn to develop complex process simulations including HTRI etc., utilizing the correct thermodynamic property packages and, understanding the limitations of simulation
• Learn to develop relief device scenarios and calculate estimated required relief loads
• Learn to develop complex equipment and vessel process designs along with required data sheets
• Learn to develop project execution plans for projects, including fast track and long lead item identification
• Learn to identify the necessity for process control interlocks
• Learn to mentor young engineers and provide direction and effectively delegating work to other engineers on a team
• Learn to develop scopes of work on large process projects
• Learn to solve client operating problems / Troubleshoot existing processes
• Learn to recommend potential instruments and specific technologies for applications
• Learn to recognize project opportunities
• Learn to understand process design codes and standards and utilize them when they are applicable
• Learn to recognize the importance of developing an estimated solution to an engineering problem versus an exact solution
• Learn to develop complex control strategies
• Learn to develop and evaluate conceptual process designs
• Learn to conduct inter-discipline reviews, highlighting important design aspects to other departments
• Learn to collect process data that is not readily available and make design decisions based on limited process information
• All other duties as assigned

Technical Competencies

• Understanding and ability 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
• Generate Process Flow Diagrams (PFD’s) and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID’s)
• Modify simple P&ID’s and check modifications against CAD drafting standards and client standards
• Develop demolition P&ID’s
• Develop and maintain Drawing list, Line lists, Equipment lists, and Specialty Items lists
• 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
• Perform and document process calculations that can be easily checked
• Develop simple process simulations and is familiar with physical property estimation packages
• Develop physical property data for the selection of instrumentation
• Understand the hierarchy of process documents in process designs
• Understand typical instrumentation types and their principles of operation.
• Capable of checking work produced at an Engineer I & II skill level
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, as well as Aspen HYSYS and MathCAD
• Manage simple process projects and strategies
• Understand process design equations and their applicability to design engineering
• Develop process man-hour estimates for small projects.
• Review vendor equipment designs and data for suitability to the process design.
• Drafting a simple process scope of work document
• Developing a Process Design Basis
• Specify specialty items and generate specialty item data sheets as required
• Drive process engineering efforts to conclusion by anticipating the requirements of the final deliverable to the client
• Ability to size, select, specify and design pressure relief devices, inlet an outlet piping and effluent handling systems
• Set process design conditions and develop simple equipment designs/sizes along with the required data sheets

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Chemical Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience working as a Chemical or Process Engineer 
• Understanding and ability to apply basic fundamentals in Chemical Engineering, specifically; Fluid Dynamics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Process Unit Operations and Separations, basic Reaction Kinetics and Reaction Design Theory, and material and Energy Balances
• Solid Microsoft Office skills 
• Comfortable working in a team environment
• Dependable and self-motivated, with strong ethical principles
• Understands when to seek additional guidance from the department manager on project/process issues and/or discipline lead and when to research the solution on their own
• Must possess exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future