Chemical Process Engineer

About the role

Position Summary Your next process improvement should not die in a spreadsheet. It should change how a plant runs. We are expanding production capacity and bringing new products into our specialty chemical manufacturing facility onsite in Belle, West Virginia. We need a Process Engineer who brings strong technical judgment, practical plant instincts, and the drive to take ownership from the first walkdown through sustained improvement. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work directly with Operations, safety, maintenance, controls, and leadership to troubleshoot processes, strengthen production tracking, support scale-up, and make the plant safer, more reliable, and more efficient. If you want broad responsibility and visible impact instead of a narrow desk-only role, this is built for you.

Responsibilities

• Own critical process and batch tracking, investigate anomalies, and turn data into lasting improvements in safety, quality, yield, and throughput.
• Partner with operators on the plant floor to troubleshoot live process issues, develop practical solutions, and ensure procedures work where they matter.
• Support new-product introduction, scale-up, plant tests, and the transfer of processes into safe, reliable Operations execution.
• Develop and improve batch sheets, operating procedures, specifications, PFDs, P&IDs, and mass and energy balances.
• Participate in PSM activities, process hazard reviews, pre-startup readiness, and technical support for safety-critical processes.
• Collaborate on controls, instrumentation, capital projects, equipment installations, vendor coordination, and operator training.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent process-manufacturing experience will also be considered.
• 3 or more years of process engineering, process development, or manufacturing engineering experience in a production environment.
• Practical experience with batch and/or continuous processing, process troubleshooting, and technical support for operations.
• Exposure to Process Safety Management, PHAs, process hazard reviews, or other safety-critical operating practices.
• The communication skills to turn complex technical issues into clear action plans, usable procedures, and effective operator training.
• The composure and ownership mindset to prioritize competing plant needs, ask smart questions, and follow work through to completion.

Skills

• Experience in specialty chemicals, hazardous manufacturing, DeltaV or similar controls systems, scale-up, and capital projects is highly valued.

Benefits

• Potential relocation support for the right candidate.
• Team values safety, practical problem‑solving, continuous learning, and engineers who want to make a difference where it counts.

Pay

• Base salary of $105,000 to $130,000.
• Target annual bonus of 5% to 10%.