Senior Process Engineer

Address: FQT Cedar Rapids, IA
6105 Rockwell Dr NE
Suite C
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, USA

Summary: The Senior Process Engineer (SPE) will lead and manage the most complex process engineering activities for FQT’s technologies. This role involves guiding engineering projects from inception through system start-up, optimization, and project closeout. The SPE will oversee a team of engineers, providing mentorship and ensuring the highest quality engineering deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

Relationships:

• Fosters long-term client partnerships based on mutual respect, communication, and trust. Seeks feedback from clients and maintains relationships during and after project completion
• Provides mentorship and training to process engineers. Identifies department training needs and provides solutions

Process Engineering:

• Applies comprehensive knowledge of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring alignment with technical requirements and industry best practices
• Applies comprehensive understanding of FQT Process Engineering deliverables throughout the FEL process, ensuring alignment with project goals
• Leads the review of Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, ensuring the technology’s accuracy and alignment with key project objectives
• Oversees delivery of engineering solutions to clients, ensuring clarity in technical communication. Coordinates teams to address challenges and deliver results
• Leads the selection and application for process equipment and piping systems, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with project objectives
• Leads the development of Engineering Deliverables:
  Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, and Project Estimates, ensuring quality and schedule adherence
• Leads process startup activities, coordinating team efforts, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring that startup objectives are met efficiently and safely.
• Leads the development of functional documents, ensuring clarity and alignment with project requirements
• Leads the process modeling efforts across projects, providing technical guidance and ensuring compliance with FQTs best practices
• Oversees collaboration with Third Party Engineering disciplines to lead cross‑disciplinary coordination and ensure successful project completion through the FEL stages
• Leads plant trials and R&D efforts, including patents, ensuring alignment with project goals and innovation targets

Safety and Quality:

• Leads participation in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), ensuring potential hazards are identified and addressed
• Leads peer reviews, ensuring engineering outputs meet or exceed QA/QC expectations

Project Management:

• Leads engineering cost estimation, performs peer reviews, ensuring alignment with project budgets and financial goals
• Leads project scheduling, ensuring milestones and project deliverables are met
• Leads and mentors project teams, ensuring best practices are followed

Qualifications:

Skills:

• Leads problem‑solving efforts by diagnosing challenges, developing advanced solutions, and ensuring their successful implementation
• Communicates with clarity and authority, facilitating trust with team members and clients. Effectively conveys complex technical details and addresses concerns
• Fosters a collaborative environment, driving team accountability and alignment to achieve shared objectives and further FQT’s mission
• Exemplifies strong leadership, guiding the team through decision‑making, conflict resolution, and adaptation to change while promoting integrity and empathy

Characteristics:

• Demonstrates a proactive approach, consistently open to new ideas and feedback. Displays resilience in challenging situations and confidently supports others' viewpoints while providing expert insight
• Maintains a high level of enthusiasm and focus, consistently driving momentum across projects and teams, especially during high‑pressure situations
• Consistently delivers complex goals with meticulous attention to detail. Demonstrates ownership of results at both an individual and team level
• Exhibits a strong initiative to lead and innovate, consistently…