Senior Process Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Fosters long-term client partnerships based on mutual respect, communication, and trust.
• Sets up and manages engineering projects from inception through system start-up, optimization, and project closeout.
• Mentors and trains process engineers.
• Led the review of Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, ensuring the technology’s accuracy and alignment with key project objectives.
• Coordinates teams to address challenges and deliver results.
• Selects and applies process equipment and piping systems, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with project objectives.
• Develops Engineering Deliverables: Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, and Project Estimates, ensuring quality and schedule adherence.
• Leads process startup activities, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring startup objectives are met efficiently and safely.
• Develops functional documents, ensuring clarity and alignment with project requirements.
• Leads process modeling efforts across projects, providing technical guidance and ensuring compliance with FQT's best practices.
• Collaborates with Third Party Engineering disciplines to lead cross-disciplinary coordination and ensure successful project completion through the FEL stages.
• Leads plant trials and R&D efforts, including patents, ensuring alignment with project goals and innovation targets.
• Leads participation in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), ensuring potential hazards are identified and addressed.
• Led peer reviews, ensuring engineering outputs meet or exceed QA/QC expectations.
• Leads engineering cost estimation, performing peer reviews, ensuring alignment with project budgets and financial goals.
• Leads project scheduling, ensuring milestones and project deliverables are met.
• Leads and mentors project teams, ensuring best practices are followed.

Qualifications

• Skills: Leads problem-solving efforts by diagnosing challenges, developing advanced solutions, and ensuring their successful implementation. Communicates with clarity and authority, facilitating trust with team members and clients. Exemplifies strong leadership, guiding the team through decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptation to change while promoting integrity and empathy.
• Characteristics: Demonstrates a proactive approach, consistently open to new ideas and feedback. Displays resilience in challenging situations and confidently supports others' viewpoints while providing expert insight. Maintains a high level of enthusiasm and focus, consistently driving momentum across projects and teams, especially during high-pressure situations. Consistently delivers complex goals with meticulous attention to detail. Exhibits a strong initiative to lead and innovate, consistently seeking opportunities to enhance team performance and contribute to project success.
• Technical Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field. Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred. 12+ years of practical engineering experience. Mastery of process engineering principles, including complex mass and energy balances, system/equipment sizing, and system optimization.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

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. Valid driver’s license required.

Company Information

Fluid Quip Technologies® (Fluid Quip) provides custom technologies and engineering services to the biofuel and biochemical industries worldwide. Fluid Quip has commercialized multiple technologies to enhance the base corn-to-ethanol dry grind process, create new and novel alternative feed products, and supply the growing need for carbohydrate feedstocks into the biochemical market. Green Plains Inc., Ospraie Management, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock hold a majority interest in Fluid Quip. Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE) is a leading biorefining company advancing the transition to a low-carbon world through the production of renewable fuels and sustainable, high-impact ingredients. The company leverages agricultural, biological, and fermentation expertise to transform annually renewable crops into low-carbon energy and sustainable feedstocks. Green Plains is actively deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions at three of its facilities this year. Through innovation and operational excellence, Green Plains is reducing the carbon intensity of its products while delivering value to stakeholders. For more information, visit www.gpreinc.com.