Job Ref: # 8412587
Date Posted: 1/1/1900
Location: Reynolds, IN
Salary (USD): $100,000 - $140,000
Description
The Senior Process Engineer will serve as a hands-on engineering partner to plant leadership and operations within a renewable energy facility converting organic waste into renewable electricity and renewable natural gas. This position is responsible for understanding and optimizing the complete plant process, monitoring operating performance, troubleshooting process and equipment issues, and implementing improvements that increase uptime, reliability, efficiency, and overall plant performance.
The Senior Process Engineer will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, and plant leadership to analyze process data, develop operating procedures, conduct root cause analysis, support process safety programs, improve SCADA and automation capabilities, and lead continuous-improvement projects from identification through implementation.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Minimum 5 years of process engineering or directly relevant process-focused engineering experience
- Strong understanding of industrial process flow and continuous-process operations
- Experience monitoring and trending process variables including flow, temperature, pressure, and other operating parameters
- Ability to analyze operating data and identify process trends, relationships, and performance issues
- Experience troubleshooting process deviations, equipment-performance issues, and operating inefficiencies
- Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements
- Experience developing and maintaining technical and operating documentation
- Experience developing Standard Work, Reaction Plans, FMEA, or similar process documentation
- Root cause analysis and corrective-action experience
- Strong continuous-improvement and process-optimization background
- Ability to improve equipment uptime, process stability, reliability, and operating efficiency
- Ability to lead process-improvement projects through implementation
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
- Strong data analysis and trending capabilities
- Strong critical-thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to create clear technical procedures, training materials, and operating documentation
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and plant leadership
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Process engineering experience in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, renewable energy, oil and gas, power generation, or wastewater treatment
- Anaerobic digestion experience
- Biogas or renewable natural gas (RNG) experience
- Waste-to-value or organic-waste processing experience
- Solids-separation process experience
- Process Safety Management (PSM) experience
- Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) experience
- HAZOP/HAZCOM experience
- Management of Change (MOC) experience
- SCADA systems experience
- Process controls and industrial automation experience
- Experience improving or implementing process automation
- FMEA experience
- Standard Work and Reaction Plan development experience
- Structured continuous-improvement experience
- Experience improving plant uptime and equipment reliability
- Experience supporting continuous-process production environments
- Experience planning or implementing plant, process, or product expansions
- Electrical systems and controls knowledge
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