Project Engineer Downstream, Capital Projects
or drop it. Location is minor metadata; we could include in a short
under About the role or separate? Probably include in About the role as a short paragraph. We must not include boilerplate like "Kindly be advised that we are handling the recruitment for this position internally..." etc. Also remove EEO, scam warning, application instructions like "Apply now". Also remove duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive information: company description, mission, how you will contribute, responsibilities, what you will be working on (sub-bullets), downstream systems you will own, what you bring, preferred experience, benefits, location, full-time. We need to format using
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to decide which sections to include.
Potential sections:
- About the role (company overview, mission, location, maybe how you will contribute). Could be prose.
- Responsibilities (list of duties: connecting engineering, develop facility support, buy equipment, help build it, make it work, downstream systems you will own). Could be a list.
- Requirements (What You Bring To Plantible: Bachelor's degree, 5-10+ years, direct experience, etc.) Could be list.
- Skills (maybe Preferred Experience). Could be list.
- Benefits (list of benefits).
- Schedule (Full-time).
We should not include Pay.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include navigation etc.
Let's extract substantive content.
Company description: "We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry."
Also "Plantible Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer." That's EEO boilerplate; remove.
Also "Plantible Foods is aware of fraudulent job offers..." scam warning; remove.
Also "If you are interested in learning the status of your application..." etc; remove.
Also "Apply now" etc; remove.
Also "See more open positions at Plantible Foods" etc; remove.
Also "Join talent network" etc; remove.
Now responsibilities/how you will contribute:
Paragraphs:
"How You Will Contribute Plantible is developing the next generation of our commercial production facilities. The Downstream Project Engineer will own the engineering and field execution of the systems that receive harvested biomass and convert it into consistent, high-quality products. You will sit between Plantible's process experts and the people designing, supplying, and building our facilities. Your scope includes biomass preparation, extraction, separation, filtration, purification, concentration, drying, powder handling, packaging, CIP, and the process utilities and controls that support them. You do not need to be the deepest expert in every unit operation. You do need enough technical depth to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, connect the right people, and turn a developing process into systems we can procure, build, commission, and operate."
Then "What You Will Be Working On" with bullet-like sentences:
- Connect the Engineering Translate requirements from Plantible's Engineering, R&D, Operations, Maintenance, and Food Safety teams into clear scopes and deliverables for external engineering partners and vendors.
- Coordinate the disciplines required for your systems, including process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and facility infrastructure.
- Understand where systems interface, make sure every interface has an owner, and drive technical decisions to closure.
- Maintain engineering deliverables, decisions, dependencies, risks, and open items against the overall project schedule.
- Surface gaps early. 'Waiting on Engineering' is not a project plan.
- Develop the Facility Support FEL, conceptual design, FEED, and detailed engineering for assigned systems and project packages.
- Coordinate development and review of Basis of Design documents, equipment lists, utility requirements, layouts, specifications, drawings, and other core project deliverables.
- Lead design reviews with Plantible subject-matter experts, Operations, and external engineers.
- Challenge designs for safety, constructability, operability, maintainability, hygienic design, cost, and unnecessary complexity.
- Translate lessons from Ranchito into engineering standards and repeatable design packages for future Plantible facilities.
- Buy the Equipment Develop technical scopes and bid packages for equipment, materials, and engineered systems.
- Coordinate RFQs, technical evaluations, bid leveling, vendor selection, and technical alignment before purchase.
- Manage vendor drawings, calculations, data, documentation, and interfaces with the broader facility design.
- Track major equipment and materials from specification through fabrication, FAT, delivery, installation, and startup.
- Understand which decisions and long-lead packages are driving the project schedule and act before they become constraints.
- Help Build It Serve as Plantible's engineering point of contact during construction for assigned systems and scopes.
- Coordinate RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, field changes, and vendor questions.
- Maintain a strong onsite presence during active installation: walk the work, verify progress, identify constraints, and drive issues to resolution.
- Resolve conflicts between drawings, equipment, contractors, and Plantible requirements without losing design intent.
- Support quality reviews, mechanical completion, punch lists, system turnover, and documentation closeout.
- Make It Work Plan for commissioning and startup before construction is complete.
- Coordinate vendor startup requirements, FATs, SATs, commissioning, performance testing, and operator training.
- Work alongside Operations and Maintenance to make sure systems are documented, tested, safe, and ready to operate.
- Verify that assigned systems achieve required capacity, performance, quality, and reliability.
- Capture problems and lessons learned and turn them into better standards for the next facility.
- Downstream Systems You Will Own Biomass receipt, storage, conveyance, maceration, extraction, and feed preparation from the defined upstream handoff point.
- Centrifugation and other solid-liquid separation systems.
- Microfiltration, ultrafiltration, diafiltration, membrane concentration, purification, activated-carbon treatment, and polishing systems.
- Process tanks, sanitary pumps, valves, heat exchangers, hygienic piping, and clean-in-place systems.
- Drying, powder handling, product transfer, and packaging systems.
- Chilled water, steam or thermal systems, compressed air, RO and process water, waste streams, and other process utilities serving downstream operations.
- Process automation, instrumentation, controls, recipes, equipment integration, and data requirements.
- Interfaces with upstream biomass delivery, site utilities, laboratories, warehousing, food safety, maintenance, and facility infrastructure.
That is a lot; we can group into responsibilities.
Then "What You Bring To Plantible":
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Process, Bioengineering, Food Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Typically 5-10+ years supporting industrial capital projects in food, ingredients, biotechnology, biochemical, pharmaceutical, fermentation, or another hygienic process-manufacturing environment.
- Direct experience with several of the downstream unit operations listed above and a working understanding of how they interact as one process.
- Experience delivering process equipment through specification, vendor selection, design integration, installation, commissioning, and startup.
- Strong understanding of sanitary process systems, hygienic design, CIP, process utilities, instrumentation, controls, and commissioning.
- Ability to read and challenge PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, utility balances, construction drawings, controls documentation, and vendor submittals.
- Highly organized and able to keep parallel design packages, interfaces, decisions, and deadlines moving.
- Willingness to spend significant time onsite during construction, commissioning, and startup.
Then "Preferred Experience":
- Owner-side project engineering or greenfield facility experience.
- Experience in alternative protein, food ingredients, biomass processing, fermentation, biotechnology, or biochemical manufacturing.
- Hands-on experience with centrifuges, membrane filtration, purification, concentration, activated-carbon treatment, drying, powder handling, sanitary piping, or CIP.
- Experience with FAT, SAT, water runs, performance testing, process validation, and operational handoff.
- Experience scaling an evolving process and converting lessons learned into repeatable standards.
Then benefits list:
- Competitive health and wellness benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Discretionary Unlimited PTO Program
- Paid Holidays
- 401k Program
- Career Stipend
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Working in a rapidly growing, flexible and entrepreneurial environment
- Team building and company-wide events
- Financial support with your relocation, if necessary, ensuring a smooth transition
- And of course, lots of beautiful land for outdoor activities!
We should format benefits as
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Schedule: Full-time.
Location: Austin, TX, USA; Vista, CA, USA (maybe multiple). Could be included in About the role as a short paragraph.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
We must not include any markdown code fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
Plantible Foods, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company unlocking the power in plants for people and planet. The mission is to create sustainable, regenerative solutions without compromising quality, starting in the food industry. The Downstream Project Engineer will own engineering and field execution of systems that receive harvested biomass and convert it into consistent, high‑quality products, working between process experts and those designing, supplying, and building facilities. Locations include Austin, TX and Vista, CA.
Responsibilities
- Translate requirements from Engineering, R&D, Operations, Maintenance, and Food Safety teams into clear scopes and deliverables for external engineering partners and vendors.
- Coordinate the disciplines required for your systems, including process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and facility infrastructure.
- Ensure every system
for prose. We need to decide which sections to include. Potential sections: - About the role (company overview, mission, location, maybe how you will contribute). Could be prose. - Responsibilities (list of duties: connecting engineering, develop facility support, buy equipment, help build it, make it work, downstream systems you will own). Could be a list. - Requirements (What You Bring To Plantible: Bachelor's degree, 5-10+ years, direct experience, etc.) Could be list. - Skills (maybe Preferred Experience). Could be list. - Benefits (list of benefits). - Schedule (Full-time). We should not include Pay. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include navigation etc. Let's extract substantive content. Company description: "We Are a Biology Company Plantible, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company that is unlocking the power in plants in service of people & planet. Our mission is to create solutions that empower customers to make sustainable and regenerative choices without compromising on quality. We are beginning with the food industry." Also "Plantible Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer." That's EEO boilerplate; remove. Also "Plantible Foods is aware of fraudulent job offers..." scam warning; remove. Also "If you are interested in learning the status of your application..." etc; remove. Also "Apply now" etc; remove. Also "See more open positions at Plantible Foods" etc; remove. Also "Join talent network" etc; remove. Now responsibilities/how you will contribute: Paragraphs: "How You Will Contribute Plantible is developing the next generation of our commercial production facilities. The Downstream Project Engineer will own the engineering and field execution of the systems that receive harvested biomass and convert it into consistent, high-quality products. You will sit between Plantible's process experts and the people designing, supplying, and building our facilities. Your scope includes biomass preparation, extraction, separation, filtration, purification, concentration, drying, powder handling, packaging, CIP, and the process utilities and controls that support them. You do not need to be the deepest expert in every unit operation. You do need enough technical depth to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, connect the right people, and turn a developing process into systems we can procure, build, commission, and operate." Then "What You Will Be Working On" with bullet-like sentences: - Connect the Engineering Translate requirements from Plantible's Engineering, R&D, Operations, Maintenance, and Food Safety teams into clear scopes and deliverables for external engineering partners and vendors. - Coordinate the disciplines required for your systems, including process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and facility infrastructure. - Understand where systems interface, make sure every interface has an owner, and drive technical decisions to closure. - Maintain engineering deliverables, decisions, dependencies, risks, and open items against the overall project schedule. - Surface gaps early. 'Waiting on Engineering' is not a project plan. - Develop the Facility Support FEL, conceptual design, FEED, and detailed engineering for assigned systems and project packages. - Coordinate development and review of Basis of Design documents, equipment lists, utility requirements, layouts, specifications, drawings, and other core project deliverables. - Lead design reviews with Plantible subject-matter experts, Operations, and external engineers. - Challenge designs for safety, constructability, operability, maintainability, hygienic design, cost, and unnecessary complexity. - Translate lessons from Ranchito into engineering standards and repeatable design packages for future Plantible facilities. - Buy the Equipment Develop technical scopes and bid packages for equipment, materials, and engineered systems. - Coordinate RFQs, technical evaluations, bid leveling, vendor selection, and technical alignment before purchase. - Manage vendor drawings, calculations, data, documentation, and interfaces with the broader facility design. - Track major equipment and materials from specification through fabrication, FAT, delivery, installation, and startup. - Understand which decisions and long-lead packages are driving the project schedule and act before they become constraints. - Help Build It Serve as Plantible's engineering point of contact during construction for assigned systems and scopes. - Coordinate RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, field changes, and vendor questions. - Maintain a strong onsite presence during active installation: walk the work, verify progress, identify constraints, and drive issues to resolution. - Resolve conflicts between drawings, equipment, contractors, and Plantible requirements without losing design intent. - Support quality reviews, mechanical completion, punch lists, system turnover, and documentation closeout. - Make It Work Plan for commissioning and startup before construction is complete. - Coordinate vendor startup requirements, FATs, SATs, commissioning, performance testing, and operator training. - Work alongside Operations and Maintenance to make sure systems are documented, tested, safe, and ready to operate. - Verify that assigned systems achieve required capacity, performance, quality, and reliability. - Capture problems and lessons learned and turn them into better standards for the next facility. - Downstream Systems You Will Own Biomass receipt, storage, conveyance, maceration, extraction, and feed preparation from the defined upstream handoff point. - Centrifugation and other solid-liquid separation systems. - Microfiltration, ultrafiltration, diafiltration, membrane concentration, purification, activated-carbon treatment, and polishing systems. - Process tanks, sanitary pumps, valves, heat exchangers, hygienic piping, and clean-in-place systems. - Drying, powder handling, product transfer, and packaging systems. - Chilled water, steam or thermal systems, compressed air, RO and process water, waste streams, and other process utilities serving downstream operations. - Process automation, instrumentation, controls, recipes, equipment integration, and data requirements. - Interfaces with upstream biomass delivery, site utilities, laboratories, warehousing, food safety, maintenance, and facility infrastructure. That is a lot; we can group into responsibilities. Then "What You Bring To Plantible": - Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Process, Bioengineering, Food Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. - Typically 5-10+ years supporting industrial capital projects in food, ingredients, biotechnology, biochemical, pharmaceutical, fermentation, or another hygienic process-manufacturing environment. - Direct experience with several of the downstream unit operations listed above and a working understanding of how they interact as one process. - Experience delivering process equipment through specification, vendor selection, design integration, installation, commissioning, and startup. - Strong understanding of sanitary process systems, hygienic design, CIP, process utilities, instrumentation, controls, and commissioning. - Ability to read and challenge PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, layouts, utility balances, construction drawings, controls documentation, and vendor submittals. - Highly organized and able to keep parallel design packages, interfaces, decisions, and deadlines moving. - Willingness to spend significant time onsite during construction, commissioning, and startup. Then "Preferred Experience": - Owner-side project engineering or greenfield facility experience. - Experience in alternative protein, food ingredients, biomass processing, fermentation, biotechnology, or biochemical manufacturing. - Hands-on experience with centrifuges, membrane filtration, purification, concentration, activated-carbon treatment, drying, powder handling, sanitary piping, or CIP. - Experience with FAT, SAT, water runs, performance testing, process validation, and operational handoff. - Experience scaling an evolving process and converting lessons learned into repeatable standards. Then benefits list: - Competitive health and wellness benefits - Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - Discretionary Unlimited PTO Program - Paid Holidays - 401k Program - Career Stipend - Career development and growth opportunities - Working in a rapidly growing, flexible and entrepreneurial environment - Team building and company-wide events - Financial support with your relocation, if necessary, ensuring a smooth transition - And of course, lots of beautiful land for outdoor activities! We should format benefits as
- .
Schedule: Full-time.
Location: Austin, TX, USA; Vista, CA, USA (maybe multiple). Could be included in About the role as a short paragraph.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
We must not include any markdown code fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
Plantible Foods, backed by Astanor Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Piva Capital, Kellogg’s, and Vectr Ventures, is a vertically integrated biology company unlocking the power in plants for people and planet. The mission is to create sustainable, regenerative solutions without compromising quality, starting in the food industry. The Downstream Project Engineer will own engineering and field execution of systems that receive harvested biomass and convert it into consistent, high‑quality products, working between process experts and those designing, supplying, and building facilities. Locations include Austin, TX and Vista, CA.
Responsibilities
- Translate requirements from Engineering, R&D, Operations, Maintenance, and Food Safety teams into clear scopes and deliverables for external engineering partners and vendors.
- Coordinate the disciplines required for your systems, including process, mechanical, piping, civil, structural, electrical, controls, utilities, and facility infrastructure.
- Ensure every system