ENGINEER - RESEARCH ENGINEER - Design/Process Engineer - Pilot Plants
San Antonio, Texas
Employer: Southwest Research Institute
Industry:
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Who We Are:
Pilot Plant Design and Fabrication Section works in pilot plant design, procurement, construction, and operating services and process development of new first of their kind processes.
Objectives of this Role:
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Special Requirements:
Must be a U.S. person (i.e., U.S. citizen, non-U.S. citizen national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) due to ITAR work in section.
Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas
For more information about this division, visit the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering home page.
For benefits information at our San Antonio location, click here .
For benefits information at all other locations, click here .
An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disabled/Veteran
Committed to Diversity in the Workplace
Pilot Plant Design and Fabrication Section works in pilot plant design, procurement, construction, and operating services and process development of new first of their kind processes.
Objectives of this Role:
- This position will fill a role in supporting operations for pilot plants for process development by expanding our technical portfolio of offerings to our clients.
- Increased utilization by supporting existing large projects and conducting business development for existing and new areas.
- Be a leader in operations training, procurement, and inventory control for process development and pilot plants, with expertise in technical areas of the research.
- Train operators and engineers to maintain pilot plant area and operations with a high degree of "technical" success. Emphasis on department safety culture, waste disposal, procedures, ISO.
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
- Design processes or unit operations for chemical or refinery systems.
- Plan and conduct research and process development work in chemical, gas, and petroleum areas.
- Expand particular area of expertise (ideally decarbonization, pyrolysis, batch/CSTR kinetics, biomass conversion).
- Support ongoing projects through data compilation, mass and energy balances, operator training, procedure development, laboratory upkeep, maintenance, and safety review/document preparation.
- Department safety emphasis.
- Create process simulations using commercial software in addition to input/output, process flow and process instrumentation diagrams.
- Conduct strategic business development activities.
- Provide technical supervision to other engineers, technicians, and analysts.
- Emphasis on proposal writing and publications.
- Communicate with vendors, clients, and operators to set up equipment and construct systems for new processes.
- Promote and secure new work as trained through mentorship and internal business development training.
Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelors or a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
- 0 years: Experience in any of the following areas: biomass conversion, biofuels, hydrotreating, carbon capture, carbon utilization, plastics recycling, pyrolysis, coking, distillation, electrolysis, clean hydrogen.
- High attention to detail in calculations, design, and operations. Must be able to develop process flow diagrams, process and instrumentation diagrams, I/O diagrams, and process control strategies.
- Must be able to communicate clearly and interface with clients or potential clients as needed in the course of the project or proposal process. Must be able to conduct tasks in parallel.
- Experience with actual hands-on buildup of processes and test systems is preferred.
- Direct experience with chemical engineering process development work (developing Excel spreadsheets for chemical engineering calculations and data compilation) to include designing and conducting lab scale to pilot scale experiments is preferred.
- A valid/clear driver's license is required.
Special Requirements:
Must be a U.S. person (i.e., U.S. citizen, non-U.S. citizen national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) due to ITAR work in section.
Job Locations: San Antonio, Texas
For more information about this division, visit the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering home page.
For benefits information at our San Antonio location, click here .
For benefits information at all other locations, click here .
An Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disabled/Veteran
Committed to Diversity in the Workplace
Created: 2024-05-17
Reference: 01-01755
Country: United States
State: Texas
City: San Antonio
ZIP: 78112
Similar jobs:
-
Lead Reliability Engineer
WestRock in Evadale, Texas -
Trade Floor Data Engineer
Saxon Global in Houston, Texas -
Civil Tunnel Engineer
AECOM Technology Corporation in Dallas, Texas💸 $60000.00 per year -
C++ Linux Embedded Software Engineer
ACS Group in Coppell, Texas💸 $115000 - $120000 per year -
SR MACHINE LEARNING EMBEDDED ENGINEER
Saxon Global in Plano, Texas -
Cloud Engineer
Indotronix International Corporation in Irving, Texas -
Data Engineer, DP\u0026I - Data Platform
Amazon in Dallas, Texas💸 $81000 per year -
Lead Electrical Engineer - Substation Design - Houston, TX (Hybrid)
Black and Veatch in Houston, Texas -
Software Developer / Software Engineer - Early Career Development Program
Nabors Industries in Houston, Texas -
HIE/SQL Solution Engineer
Esolvit, Inc. in Austin, Texas -
Chief Building Engineer
CBRE in Dallas, Texas -
Intelligent Automation Engineer
Apex Systems in Austin, Texas💸 $80 - $90 per hour -
NSX Server Engineer III
Insight Global in Arlington, Texas -
Civil Engineer
HDR in Houston, Texas -
Maintenance Engineer
IHG in San Antonio, Texas -
Reservoir Engineer / Sr (hybrid)
Kinder Morgan in Houston, Texas -
Software Development Engineer, AWS Marketplace
Amazon in Austin, Texas -
Lead Blazor WASM/ASP.NET Core Software Engineer
LexisNexis Risk Solutions in HOME-BASED, Texas -
Support Engineer 2
Experis in Irving, Texas -
Lab Support Engineer
Apex Systems in Austin, Texas💸 $30 - $40 per hour