Process Staff Engineer - Paper Process

Staff Engineer - Paper Process

Job Description

Job Summary:

As the Lead Paper Process Engineer, responsibilities include development and delivery of the process engineering deliverables on time, within budget and meeting quality expectations. Requires providing leadership, and technical direction of a team of process and discipline engineers on larger projects.

Key

Responsibilities and Duties:

Primary responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

* Promoting the culture of working safely and applying safety related concepts into process design.

* Plan, organize, and oversee the process engineering activities with responsibility for quality and accuracy as well as performance budget and schedule.

* Understand the project scope and deliverables. Initiate timely project change notices when deviations are made from project scope that affect the cost of the work, deliverable and/or schedule.

* Establish the process design criteria for the project.

* Interface directly with Clients to develop project scope and design requirements.

* Interface with sales team to develop business opportunities and assist with proposal development.

* Responsible for PFD and P&t, heat and material balances, hydraulic calculations and other process engineering tasks.

* Review and approve all process engineering deliverables.

* Prepare equipment specifications and assist in the development of bid packages for procurement of equipment and perform technical bid evaluations.

* Review and check vendor information and reconcile verses the process design documents.

* Coordinate with design leaders from other disciplines to ensure inter-disciplinary alignment of the design effort.

* Review discipline design information and design drawings for process engineering input and participate in inter-discipline design reviews.

* Develop preliminary designs suitable for the level of estimate being prepared as part of a capital project development study.

* Maintain familiarity with and utilize industry standards, procedures, and guidelines.

* Check calculations, reports, and studies made by other engineers to ensure accuracy, as well as conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and good engineering practices. Travel as required for project-related activities.

Job Requirements

Qualifications,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

* Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Paper Science from an accredited university.

* Minimum of 10 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry - operations is a plus.

* Extensive knowledge of paper machine equipment, processes, and operations.

* Experience in PFD and P&t, heat and material balances, and equipment specifications.

* Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.

* Professional Engineering registration is a plus but not required.