Senior Chemical Process Engineer

Job Title

Requisition

Location

Additional Locations

Job Description Summary

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide technical support and work with internal and external resources to implement and validate new processes to the site.
• Identifies equipment needs/changes for new chemical processes
• Works with internal and external resources to implement and validate new processes
• Identifies and implements improvements to existing chemical processes using continuous improvement tools
• Ensures that processes comply with all cGMP regulations in regards to process and cleaning validation
• Completes exception investigations and implements effective corrective and preventative actions to prevent recurrence.
• Interact with R&D, Plant Engineering, and Corporate Engineering experts to develop simulation models of existing active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) processes.
• Use Process Simulation to debottleneck existing API processes and increase capacity.
• Use Process Simulation to transfer processes and determine unit operation equivalency between operating units or buildings.
• Maintain all process flow diagrams, material balances, and energy balances for their processes.
• Work with plant safety to maintain process specific safety information.
• Work with plant environmental to maintain process specific environmental information.
• Work with plant logistics and planning to simulate scheduling capabilities for complex operating scenarios.
• Work with Plant and Corporate Engineering to develop scopes of work for process improvement and plant expansion projects.
• Support Customer and Regulatory agency audits as subject matter experts for assigned processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT

Education: B.S Chemical Engineering or related field.

Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in chemical processing engineering

Skills/Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of chemistry, physics, and engineering principles.
• Experience with equipment design and construction for API's
• Experience with continuous processing principles preferred
• Experience with a wide variety of unit operations and both batch and continuous processes.
• Strong knowledge of the physical side of chemical process engineering including P&ID, General Arrangement, and process piping drawings review.
• Ability to plan, direct and execute multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, from operations to senior management, both oral and written format.

Other Skills

• Strong working knowledge of MS Office
• Knowledge of cGMP and PSM regulations