Chemical Engineer

Varex Imaging Corporation•Salt Lake City, UT

20d

About The Position

The Chemical Engineer is responsible for a diverse set of processes critical to manufacturing x-ray tubes. The role designs and implements chemical processes, instrumentation, and equipment to ensure effective process design, efficiency, and productivity. It conducts trials, tests, and experiments to support engineering, production, and R&D activities, and assists manufacturing operations with troubleshooting equipment and systems. The role also recommends process formulas and technologies to improve cost effectiveness and product quality. Processes include cleaning high-vacuum glass and metal surfaces; electroplating with gold, silver, copper, nickel, and iron; sputter coating with lead; plasma coating with titanium dioxide; chemical interactions and safety; particle counting; solvent distillation and vapor cleaning; chemical analysis through titration, AES, FTIR, and LIBS; physical analysis through XRF, LIBS, and profilometers; fluid and heat transfer; waste treatment; passivation of steel and other metals; emissive coatings; media blasting with grit and beads; and process qualification.

Requirements

B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering or a related field of study.
8+ years of hands-on experience in a process engineering or related role.

Responsibilities

Design and implement chemical processes, instrumentation, and equipment for manufacturing x-ray tubes.
Conduct trials, tests, and experiments supporting engineering, production, and R&D activities.
Assist manufacturing operations in solving problems involving equipment and systems.
Recommend process formulas and technologies to improve cost effectiveness and product quality.
Support processes including surface cleaning, electroplating, coatings, chemical and physical analysis, fluid and heat transfer, waste treatment, passivation, media blasting, and process qualification.