Process Design Engineer

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Monument Chemical serves the specialty chemicals industry – and produces a variety of solvents, intermediates, specialty fuels, and other specialty products, as well as offers industry-leading Custom Manufacturing services. At Monument, you'll find careers in several engineering and skilled trades roles and disciplines. Working together like a family, our teams drive continual improvement in quality, cost, lead time, flexibility, and customer service. Whether you are a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, we offer a diverse range of opportunities where you will be challenged and encouraged to grow.

About the Role

The Process Design Engineer owns and supports process-engineering activities at the site. The role supports troubleshooting, improvement, growth, and process-safety projects; develops front-end loading (FEL) packages that define project scope; and coordinates with discipline leads and stakeholders. Typical FEL activities include equipment-adequacy checks, P&ID development, safety-valve contingency analysis and sizing, equipment specifications, hydraulic evaluations, alternative selection, vendor coordination, control-valve sizing, and PHA closeout. The role also participates in incident investigations, owns process-engineering actions, and helps translate investigation outcomes into facility-improvement projects.

Essential Functions

• Developing MOC packages.
• Evaluate operating conditions and propose troubleshooting approaches.
• Evaluate processes and equipment for compliance with environmental and safety regulations.
• Lead small capital projects valued at less than $2 million, including plant layout, equipment purchasing, construction support, P&ID walkdowns, commissioning, and startup.
• Lead complete project-scope definition and obtain input from discipline leads and stakeholders.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, including but not limited to continuously growing in alignment with the Company's core values, competencies, and skills.

Education Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university.

Experience Qualifications

• Required: 5+ years experience with an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm or a petrochemical operating company.

Skills and Abilities

• Required: Equipment design for pressure vessels, tanks, pumps, heat exchangers, and control valves.
• Required: Pressure-relief devices, including PSVs, pressure-vacuum safety valves (PVSVs), relief valves, and rupture valves.
• Required: Process simulation.
• Required: Process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• Required: Distillation and reaction systems.
• Preferred: Management of change (MOC).
• Preferred: Hazard and operability studies (HAZOPs) and process hazard analyses (PHAs).
• Preferred: Process safety management (PSM).
• Preferred: Safety instrumented systems (SISs).
• Preferred: Process control.

Working Conditions / Physical Demands

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long periods of time, up to 12 hours per day.
• Sitting: Working from a seated position for up to 12 hours per day.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms one to two times per day.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow or slippery surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force, exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 15 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force consistently to move objects forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 15 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force consistently to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects up to 25 pounds occasionally, and/or up to 15 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds consistently from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Possible subject to environmental conditions. Activities could occur inside and outside.
• Subject to extreme heat. Temperatures above 100°F for periods of more than one hour.
• Subject to vibration. Exposure to movements of the extremities or whole body.
• Operate/drive utility vehicle.
• Subject to hazards. Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• Must be able to wear appropriate PPE for tasks as required. FRC uniform, hard hat, safety toe work boots, safety glasses, gloves, etc.