Summary: The Senior Process Engineer (SPE) will lead and manage the most complex process engineering activities for FQT's technologies. This role involves guiding engineering projects from inception through system start-up, optimization, and project closeout. The SPE will oversee a team of engineers, providing mentorship and ensuring the highest quality engineering deliverables.
Key Responsibilities:Relationships:
- Fosters long-term client partnerships based on mutual respect, communication, and trust. Seeks feedback from clients and maintains relationships during and after project completion
- Provides mentorship and training to process engineers. Identifies department training needs and provides solutions
Process Engineering:
- Applies comprehensive knowledge of FQT's technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring alignment with technical requirements and industry best practices
- Applies comprehensive understanding of FQT Process Engineering deliverables throughout the FEL process, ensuring alignment with project goals
- Leads the review of Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, ensuring the technology's accuracy and alignment with key project objectives
- Oversees delivery of engineering solutions to clients, ensuring clarity in technical communication. Coordinates teams to address challenges and deliver results
- Leads the selection and application for process equipment and piping systems, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with project objectives
- Leads the development of 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, coordinating team efforts, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring that startup objectives are met efficiently and safely.
- Leads the development of functional documents, ensuring clarity and alignment with project requirements
- Leads the process modeling efforts across projects, providing technical guidance and ensuring compliance with FQTs best practices
- Oversees collaboration 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
Safety and Quality:
- Leads participation in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), ensuring potential hazards are identified and addressed
- Leads peer reviews, ensuring engineering outputs meet or exceed QA/QC expectations
Project Management:
- Leads engineering cost estimation, performs 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. Effectively conveys complex technical details and addresses concerns
- Fosters a collaborative environment, driving team accountability and alignment to achieve shared objectives and further FQT's mission
- 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. Demonstrates ownership of results at both an individual and team level
- 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
Fluid Quip Technologies® offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment.
Green Plains and Fluid Quip do not provide immigration-related employment sponsorship for new hires (for example, H-1B, F-1 OPT, TN, or other work visas). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and be able to maintain ongoing work authorization without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
