Process Engineer III

Key Responsibilities

• Initiates and develops long-term client partnerships, gathering feedback from current clients and laying the groundwork for lasting relationships.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of FQT departments, leveraging them to deliver excellence.
• Mentors less experienced engineers and identifies individual training needs, providing technical advice.
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring strict adherence to technical requirements and best practices.
• Prepares Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, demonstrating technical expertise, attention to detail, and high-quality work.
• Leads client presentations of engineering deliverables, communicating technical details clearly. Works within the team to resolve complex issues.
• Independently sizes equipment, piping, instrumentation, and valves (manual, automated, relief), ensuring precise technical specifications of high quality.
• Independently prepares Engineering Deliverables: Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, Engineering Lists, and Project Estimates.
• Independently contributes to process startup, demonstrating proficiency in startup procedures, troubleshooting skills, and ensuring accurate execution of startup tasks.
• Accurately prepares process control philosophies, functional descriptions, SOPs, and training documents, maintaining high quality and speed.
• Precisely performs process calculations and modeling in Excel and ChemCAD for large-scale projects, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Demonstrates proficiency in integrating Engineering practices into FQT projects, ensuring smooth progression through the FEL stages.
• Develops plant trials, incorporates findings into engineering deliverables, including patents, to progress FQT technologies and validate new solutions.
• Demonstrates the ability to lead while participating in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) to identify potential hazards in design.
• Demonstrates commitment to quality, ensuring deliverables meet QA/QC standards.
• Manages cost estimation and budgeting for engineering tasks with accuracy.
• Independently manages deliverable timelines, ensuring adherence to project schedules.
• Manages team interactions effectively, providing informal guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications

• Skills: Utilizes problem solving skills to identify challenges, generating solutions and implement solutions; is trusted by the team and has the knowledge and confidence to clearly convey ideas and more importantly concerns to keep projects on track; brings the team together to win; is highly accountable, trustworthy and can collaborate effectively to support FQT's strategy; demonstrates strong leadership skills of Communication, Influence, Integrity, Decision-Making, Empathy, and Adaptability within the engineering team and FQT.
• Characteristics: Consistently demonstrates an optimistic view for good in every situation, is open to new ideas and feedback, and has the resilience to bounce back from setbacks; appreciates others' viewpoints and is confident in their own abilities; brings enthusiastic, vigor and focus to the workplace every day, maintains momentum and is highly adaptable, especially during challenging times; consistently accomplishes complex goals with attention to detail and perseverance; is highly accountable for individual and team results, whether they are successes or failures; consistently demonstrates high initiative and eagerness to learn; actively seeks out opportunities to contribute to the team.
• Technical Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field; passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred; 6-15 years of practical engineering experience; strong understanding of process engineering principles, mass and energy balances, and system/equipment sizing.

Pay

Competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching.

Schedule

Travel requirements vary significantly by project. While the average travel expectation is roughly 30%, certain projects may require up to 100% travel and could involve shift work.