Process Design Engineer

About the role

You'll design new process technologies, plant expansions, and retrofit projects that help advance renewable fuels as part of a well-respected, growing engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design new process technologies, plant expansions, retrofit projects, and process improvements for industrial biorefineries.
• Prepare PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, process calculations, engineering design packages, and material and energy balances.
• Design process systems for handling solids, liquids, and gases, and support process instrumentation and control system design.
• Evaluate new technologies, analyze operating data, and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, improve reliability, reduce costs, and optimize product yields.
• Troubleshoot operating issues and develop practical engineering solutions that improve plant performance.
• Support commissioning, plant startups, and field troubleshooting at customer sites (approximately 20% travel).
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams throughout project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3 - 15+ years of process engineering experience in continuous chemical manufacturing, biofuels, ethanol, grain processing, food processing, or another continuous process manufacturing environment.
• Experience developing PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, and engineering design documentation.
• Experience using Aspen Plus, ChemCAD, or similar process simulation software.

Qualifications

• Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer without sponsorship now or in the future.
• A driver’s license is required for occasional travel to job sites.

Skills

• Technical expertise in process engineering and continuous manufacturing processes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Proficiency in process simulation software.

Benefits

• Base salaries range from $110K to $160K + bonus.
• (And dollars go a long way in this geography.)
• Relocation assistance.
• Profit sharing bonus (approximately 3%-10%).
• Excellent comprehensive benefits package.

Pay

Base salaries range from $110K to $160K + bonus.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate project needs and travel requirements.