Process Staff Engineer - Paper Process

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Promote a culture of working safely and apply safety-related concepts into process design.
• Plan, organize, and oversee process engineering activities with responsibility for quality and accuracy as well as performance budget and schedule.
• Understand the project scope and deliverables.
• Initiate timely project change notices when deviations are made from project scope that affect the cost of the work, deliverable and/or schedule.
• Establish the process design criteria for the project.
• Interface directly with clients to develop project scope and design requirements.
• Interface with sales team to develop business opportunities and assist with proposal development.
• Responsible for PFD and P&ID development, heat and material balances, hydraulic calculations and other process engineering tasks.
• Review and approve all process engineering deliverables.
• Prepare equipment specifications and assist in the development of bid packages for procurement of equipment and perform technical bid evaluations.
• Review and check vendor information and reconcile verses the process design documents.
• Cook up with design leaders from other disciplines to ensure inter-disciplinary alignment of the design effort.
• Review discipline design information and design drawings for process engineering input and participate in inter-discipline design reviews.
• Develop preliminary designs suitable for the level of estimate being prepared as part of a capital project development study.
• Maintain familiarity with and utilize industry standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Check calculations, reports, and studies made by other engineers to ensure accuracy, as well as conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and good engineering practices.
• Travel as required for project-related activities.

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Paper Science from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry – operations is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of paper machine equipment, processes, and operations.
• Experience in PFD and P&ID development, heat and material balances, and equipment specifications.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Professional Engineering registration is a plus but not required.