Senior Research And Development Engineer

Job Summary

Leads R&D engineering work and capabilities to support Morton Salt innovation and growth opportunities working within the R&D team and with cross-functional stakeholders and groups including operations, quality, procurement, sales, marketing, and new business development.

Major activities will include R&D project management and execution of project work, including working at manufacturing sites with operations, vendor equipment/process trials and piloting, process startups, product testing, benchtop experimentation and laboratory analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Member of the safety team; supporting waste handling, chemical inventory documentation, chemical ordering and miscellaneous tasks required for the safe operation of the facility.
• Technology exploration (research) and feasibility analysis on new opportunities and ideas.
• Processing engineering and computational analysis such as material/energy balances, costing analysis
• Technical knowledge transfer and training on deployed projects and improvements.
• Coordination and execution of lab, plant, process, and equipment experiments and trials.
• Leading or supporting R&D projects and R&D work streams, providing R&D engineering expertise.
• Some travel required (plant and/or vendor locations).

Experience

• Safety mindset/champion, including environmental and people/employee safety.
• Strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• BS in Chemical Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum eight years of industrial experience in research and development, preferably associated to manufacturing, operations, and process and product ROI (return on investment) projects.
• Strong acumen with project management processes, stage gate methodology, and agile/innovation approaches.
• Strong proficiency and execution with fundamental R&D engineering skills including thermodynamics, separations, unit operations, computational analysis, and process flow design and modeling.