Corporate Process Engineer – PP, FS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, assess, and enhance manufacturing techniques within chemical processing operations.

• Assist in batch and continuous manufacturing processes, with a focus on web handling, solids handling, and polymer processing.

• Ensure systems are in place to maintain consistent quality of raw materials, intermediates, and final products.

• Offer technical assistance for manufacturing challenges encountered in chemical processing operations.

• Serve as a technical intermediary among Research & Technology, Technical Service, Marketing & Sales, and Manufacturing.

• Contribute to process enhancements, the introduction of new products, and scale-up initiatives.

• Oversee and enhance plant efficiency, throughput, yield, and reliability.

• Deliver technical direction to Site Process Engineers and plant teams regarding unit operations, troubleshooting, and equipment performance.

• Collaborate on analyses of capital and expense projects, design considerations, equipment selection, vendor assessments, cost estimations, and life-cycle cost evaluations.

• Utilize mass and energy balances, heat and momentum transfer principles, and fundamentals of reaction and separation in process and equipment design.

• Foster consistent implementation of Process Safety Management principles, including Management of Change and Process Hazard Analysis.

• Lead or assist in Root Cause Analysis and CAPA development for process disruptions, quality discrepancies, equipment malfunctions, and safety incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Engineering, or a related field.

• More than 5 years of engineering experience within a chemical or chemically-related manufacturing setting.

• Familiarity with general chemical processing operations, encompassing both batch and continuous processes.

• Practical knowledge of web handling, filament/fiber spinning and handling, polymer-related unit operations, pump systems, extrusion, and bulk material handling equipment.

• Experience in or supporting manufacturing facilities regulated by PSM.

• Capability to work effectively at all organizational levels, from plant operations to corporate management.

• Experience in participating in or leading Root Cause Analysis and Process Hazard Analysis activities.

• Willingness to travel up to 50% as required.

• Preferred: Knowledge of PLCs and distributed control systems, including Emerson DeltaV and Honeywell Experion.

• Preferred: Experience with process modeling or simulation software.

• Preferred: Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Remote-eligible work arrangement.

• Travel opportunities to support business needs.