Job Description
Job DescriptionPosition Overview:
The Senior Process Engineer plays a key role in optimizing, troubleshooting, and improving manufacturing operations within a chemical production environment. This role focuses on enhancing process efficiency, ensuring product quality, supporting safe operations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across the plant.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead process improvement initiatives to increase throughput, reduce waste, improve yield, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
- Analyze chemical manufacturing processes using datadriven methods to identify bottlenecks, variability, and opportunities for optimization.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, including P&IDs, SOPs, process flow diagrams, and operating parameters.
- Support daily plant operations, providing technical expertise to production teams and troubleshooting process issues in real time.
- Conduct root cause analyses for process deviations, equipment failures, and quality concerns, implementing corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive continuous improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
- Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards, including OSHA, EPA, and internal company policies.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams such as maintenance, quality, R&D, and EHS to support new product introductions and process changes.
- Monitor key process metrics, develop dashboards, and recommend adjustments to maintain stable and efficient operations.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies, equipment upgrades, and automation solutions to modernize plant capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering w/ chemical industry experience.
- Must have 7 to 10 years of experience.
- Experience in chemical manufacturing, batch or continuous processing, or related industrial environments.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with proficiency in process modeling, statistical analysis, or data visualization tools.
- Familiarity with process safety management (PSM), hazard analysis (HAZOP), Management of Change (MOC), PreStartup Safety Review (PSSR) and risk assessment methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across departments.
- Project leadership
- Technical engineering judgment
- Budget and cost control
- Vendor and contractor management
- Risk management
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Strong safety orientation
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