Process Engineer - Power Infrastructure and Datacenters
About The Position
As part of Intersect’s Engineering team, you’ll act as a vital technical anchor bridging advanced process design with real-world plant performance across our growing energy portfolio. You’ll help deliver safely engineered, optimized, and highly reliable power generation infrastructure by executing meticulous design reviews, performance benchmarking, and system integration. Our portfolio spans datacenter implementation to power generation, creating opportunities to tackle complex technical challenges while driving meaningful impact. Joining this team means collaborating across disciplines, influencing high-visibility projects, and growing alongside a rapidly scaling organization.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 3 - 5 years of dedicated process engineering experience within power generation facilities or heavy energy systems.
- Direct, practical experience working with gas turbines, steam turbines, and/or reciprocating engines.
- Proven proficiency using specialized tools such as Aspen HYSYS, HTRI, EDR, and Bluebeam to execute engineering reviews and modeling.
- A strong professional understanding of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid systems, and industrial plant utility dynamics.
- Exposure to industrial plants, utilities, large-scale EPC environments, or heavy infrastructure projects.
- A safety-first mindset with explicit experience supporting or facilitating HAZOP and LOPA studies.
- The flexibility to travel up to 20% to attend project meetings, vendor evaluations, and site visits.
- An aligned personal work style rooted in curiosity and humility, allowing you to collaborate deeply across engineering boundaries.
Responsibilities
- Develop and review comprehensive process designs for power generation systems including gas turbines, steam turbines, and reciprocating engines.
- Analyze and validate PFDs, P&IDs, heat and mass balances, and complex equipment sizing calculations.
- Carry out structured datasheet reviews in strict alignment with industry codes, safety standards, and project parameters.
- Support seamless system integration covering fuel systems, cooling infrastructure, exhaust networks, and advanced emissions controls.
- Analyze plant performance data to actively identify operational inefficiencies and unlock meaningful optimization opportunities.
- Conduct detailed heat rate analysis, efficiency studies, and structural operational benchmarking to maximize reliability.
- Support Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), detailed design phases, commissioning, and diverse multidisciplinary engineering workflows.
- Establish clear scopes of work, schedules, and technical priorities for critical projects or incoming infrastructure proposals.
- Participate actively in HAZOP and LOPA studies to inject high-quality safety, operability, and maintainability inputs into all gas-based power plant projects.
Benefits
- 100% premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision
- Unlimited PTO, plus two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year)
- Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 6 additional weeks for birth parents; access to family planning and family care support through Carrot and Maven
- Free access to Spring Health, including 5 free therapy and psychiatry sessions, plus a Headspace account for mindfulness and meditation through our physical health vendor, Wellhub+
- $150 monthly food stipend
- $150 monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet
- Pet insurance allowance
- Full home office setup
- Free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly company-paid credits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
