Principal Process Engineer

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, highlighting 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., 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 a team
• Develop comprehensive process scopes of work
• Solve client operating problems / Troubleshoot existing processes
• Recommend potential instruments and specific instrumentation technologies for applications as required
• Recognize project opportunities when working with clients on other projects
• Utilize estimated solutions to engineering problems versus an exact solution as needed.
• 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 as required 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 as required.
• 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.
• Demonstrate ability in applying engineering judgment.
• Assist in reviewing resumes, interviewing, and evaluating potential new hires
• 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
• Understand the different stages of P&ID’s development and check P&ID’s against the development stages
• Able to modify P&ID’s and check modifications against CAD drafting standards and client standards
• Able to develop demolition P&ID’s
• Able to develop, and maintain Drawing list, 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
• Capable of developing 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
• Understanding of typical instrumentation types and their principles of operation
• Demonstrate capability to accurately check work produced at all discipline skill levels
• Good computer skills, familiarity with common office software as well as specialty process engineering software, such as Aspen HYSYS and MathCAD
• Demonstrate understanding of process design equations and there applicability to design engineering
• Demonstrated ability to generate Process Flow Diagrams (PFD’s) and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID’s)
• 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 as required
• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher Chemical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience in the chemical and refining process industries
• Must possess exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future