Senior Process Design Engineer

About the Role

As a Lead Engineer, you will supervise and provide technical direction to a team of engineers and process engineering designers. Your responsibilities include delivering process engineering deliverables and services on time, within budget, and meeting quality expectations. This role requires extensive experience in chemical and process design engineering and involves utilizing project controls for cost, schedule, and quality. The work will be performed in our Pasadena office.

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture of safety and apply safety-related concepts into process design.
• Review and approve all process engineering deliverables.
• Validate professional service estimates at the beginning of a project and track changes as projects progress.
• Produce professional service estimates in accordance with Hargrove standards for project deliverables, studies, change notices, and proposal efforts.
• Establish design criteria for projects, incorporating client requirements and applicable standards and codes.
• Ensure permitting requirements are communicated to the project team.
• Support the development of process engineering standards, specifications, guidelines, and procedures.
• Understand project scope and deliverables; initiate project change notices when deviations affect schedule, deliverables, or cost.
• Plan and organize the work of the project team for large and multiple medium/small capital projects.
• Maintain control of projects by tracking budget progress, schedule commitments, and quality standards.
• Delegate work to engineers and designers based on their skills and experience, ensuring efficient progress and quality.
• Consult with design leaders from other disciplines to ensure inter-disciplinary alignment on projects.
• Produce estimate-level preliminary designs suitable for major capital projects.
• Develop conceptual layouts and cost studies to determine efficient approaches to engineering tasks.
• Utilize industry and department standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Produce detail design calculations and drawings for projects, ensuring neat and organized preparation.
• Design projects with an emphasis on ease of construction, operability, and maintenance to meet client specifications.
• Check calculations, reports, and studies made by other engineers for accuracy and conformance to codes and good engineering practices.
• Produce equipment and construction specifications.
• Monitor drawings in progress to ensure conformance to design calculations and specifications.
• Assist designers in resolving routine layout and detailing problems for major capital projects.
• Review and check vendor information and other discipline information needs for process engineering input.
• Develop bid packages for procurement of equipment, materials, or services on major capital projects.
• Participate in professional society meetings to make new business contacts and stay current with industry developments.
• Engage in sales activities, including pre-bid meetings, client presentations, scope review meetings, and proposal development.
• Travel as required for client presentations and project-related tasks.
• Mentor less experienced process engineers.
• Review resumes, conduct interviews, and complete interview evaluations for process engineering candidates.
• Identify and develop work-sharing packages for interoffice execution support; provide leadership to ensure communication and execution within scope, schedule, and budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Biochemical, or Petroleum Engineering from an accredited university.
• Professional Engineering registration or CPIP certification is highly preferred.
• 10 years of relevant industrial experience in chemical, petroleum, or biochemical process design engineering.
• Ability to train others in process safety and site safety requirements.
• Knowledgeable in process safety and its incorporation into process design.
• Familiarity with specifications and installation details of equipment, instrumentation, and piping.
• Ability to create accurate process engineering documents from vendor equipment data and drawings.
• Ability to accurately estimate task completion.
• Experience in developing detailed engineering schedules and man-hour budgets for process engineering on major capital projects.
• Experienced in estimating and scheduling professional service hours and assessing progress and quality of process engineering work.
• Ability to develop design criteria and scope of work for major capital projects.
• Complete understanding of the skills and experience required to perform process engineering and design functions.
• Knowledge and application of company engineering design and CAD drafting standards.
• Knowledge of CAD software such as AutoCAD or Microstation.
• Ability to lead a small team on a major capital project to deliver on commitments.
• Ability to deliver convincing presentations of Hargrove Engineers & Constructors services to clients.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Knowledgeable in hydraulic simulation software such as AFT Fathom, AFT Arrow, PIPEPHASE, PIPE-FLO, and/or SiNet.
• Knowledgeable in process simulation software such as Aspen Plus, Aspen Plus Dynamics, PRO/II, DYNSIM, HYSYS, CHEMCAD, WinGEMS, ProMax, etc.
• Very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to travel as required for pre-bid meetings, client presentations, and project site meetings.
• Developed virtual team skills and cross-divisional relationships; ability to provide interoffice execution leadership and support.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time.

Benefits

• Paid holidays and personal paid time off.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) and other benefits for eligible teammates.