Project Engineer - Chemical Process Equipment at Engineering Resource Group

Description

• Contract position for a Project Engineer to support operations by increasing product output and quality through design modification of existing and installation of new equipment.
• Responsible for new facilities design and start-up, troubleshooting and process improvements for filtration, deodorization, bleaching, and process flow control.
• Diagnose process deficiencies and create design improvements.
• Perform process studies to identify opportunities to improve manufacturing and energy efficiency.
• Performs process modeling studies to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develops with the stake holders clear project premises, budgets scopes and detailed schedules.
• Manages project finances, with a strong control of scope, schedule deviation.
• Evaluates process schemes from operating data as needed.
• Prepares process datasheets for equipment and instrumentation.
• Updates and maintains documentation such as material balances, P&IDs and automation functional descriptions.
• Develops capital investments projects following the appropriate stage gate methodology.
• Executes capital projects managing schedule, scope and costs.
• Reports on capital projects to management and senior management regarding current activities and forecast.

Requirements

• BS in Engineering required, Mechanical or Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Must have manufacturing plant based work environment experience.
• Minimum 10 years experience in project based engineering with a focus on capital project execution.
• Excellent understanding and ability to apply fundamentals of heat transfer, fluid transport and reaction chemistry.
• Familiarity with process simulation software applications such as Aspen or ChemCAD.
• Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time to US and foreign destinations.

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