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Job Title: Chemical Engineer

Locations: Douglas, GA

Duration: Full Time, Permanent & Onsite

Job Details::-

A bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Relevant experience, OR a Master’s or Doctor’s in Chemical Engineering and Relevant experience.

Experience in applied process development/process engineering and implementation for both batch and continuous processes.

Process scale-up experience going from, the lab, kilo lab and pilot plant to plant scale. • A sound understanding of fundamental economics relating to process design and project implementation, the ability to conduct economic analyses on new technologies.

Good communication skills, with coworkers, subordinates and customers.

A broad knowledge of Process Safety Management, process safety, CPI practices and standards, and regulatory compliance.

MS, MBA, PhD, PE nice but optional

Responsibilities::-

Work with process development, production, lab sales & marketing, and safety groups to safely startup and establish new products and to reduce costs for existing product (yield/process improvements).

Evaluations (new & existing processes)

Interfaces with external and internal customers on new processes

Translating Technology Transfer Packages into potential processes at Optima

Develop costing of new processes and evaluate profitability

Developing draft BFDs, and mass & energy balances

Evaluating Optima’s process capability and unit operation deficiencies for a new process Generate specifications for raw materials and in-process samples

Generate PMNs

Scale-up and Design

Work with chemist on an ongoing basis to evaluate the practical technical aspects of their R&D work and provide guidance for most practical path(s) for safe scale-up for pilot

plant and commercial scale including cost, safety and workability considerations.

Model unit operations and generate PFDs and P&IDs for “cradle-to-grave” processes Scales-up transient unit operations in order to make products to the same specs as in the lab and pilot plant

Provide information to support air emissions submissions to regulatory (for Emission Master computer system).

Assist Engineering with Instrument/Automation/Control and Interlock strategies

Set high level safety interlock strategies and Management of Change (MOC) strategies

New Process Equipment Testing

Model, rent and test new equipment ( e.g. – filters, centrifuges, distillation equipment and reactors) for various Unit Operations

Plant Tests

Develop Batch Sheets and Procedures (also campaign change-over)

Conduct Hazard Reviews

Generate Pre-startup documents and shepherd sign-offs

Labor reduction projects

Inventory (raw materials & products) control projects

Generate Optima’s Technology Transfer Package and transition new processes to Operations

Operator Training

Safety

New & existing process chemistry and unit operations

Troubleshooting

Process issues in the commercial plant(s)

Process improvements

Assisting Plant Engineering with Process Change Requests (PCR) and implementation

Maintenance coordination

Thanks,

Daniel Sparks(Saiyed)

[email protected]