Business Development Engineer
About The Position
Monument Chemical is seeking a Business Development Engineer for their specialty chemicals industry. This role requires broad process-design expertise and strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills. The Business Development Engineer will identify optimal, cost-effective, fit-for-purpose solutions to process and chemistry challenges, responding quickly to business needs with agility, rapid learning, and the ability to deliver with limited information and supervision. The company culture emphasizes working together like a family to drive continual improvement in quality, cost, lead time, flexibility, and customer service, offering opportunities for both recent graduates and seasoned professionals to be challenged and encouraged to grow.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university.
- 10+ years of work experience in a technical leadership role, manufacturing leadership role, or similar engineering role directing technical resources.
- Chemical or petrochemical manufacturing experience.
- Strong command of chemical-engineering fundamentals and process modeling.
- Ability to model simple to moderately complex systems, including distillation, mixed gas/liquid systems, and recycle systems, and to select an appropriate thermodynamic package.
- Ability to size and verify heat exchangers, condensers, reboilers, pumps, motors, liquid-vapor separators, and accumulators.
- General understanding of process-safety principles, including PHA and layer of protection analysis (LOPA).
- Ability to evaluate and size pressure-relief valves, including inlet and outlet piping, design contingencies, and scenario documentation.
- Understanding of and adherence to the MOC process.
Responsibilities
- Develop early-stage conceptual design packages for new processes, tolls, chemistries, and trials.
- Collaborate with R&D to understand new-process requirements.
- Develop flow plans and heat-and-material balances, including utility balances.
- Verify existing equipment for new service and perform preliminary sizing for new equipment.
- Evaluate utility availability, plot plans, layouts, and facility siting.
- Organize and lead operations, maintenance, and safety reviews.
- Prepare cost estimates and provide technical expertise.
- Work with vendors and equipment suppliers to identify applicable technologies.
- Generate flow sheets for new campaigns and support operations during new trials.
- Support mechanical-integrity, troubleshooting, debottlenecking, and general plant-engineering needs.
- Develop FEL-level project scopes, including basis-of-design documents and facility design bases.
- Perform equipment verification, preliminary equipment sizing, and hydraulic evaluations.
- Define instrumentation, process-control, preliminary process-safety, and SIS requirements.
- Develop design drawings, including PFDs, P&IDs, and plot plans.
- Continuously grow in alignment with the Company’s core values, competencies, and skills.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
