Process Hazard Safety Engineer

Futurefuel • Batesville, AR

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About The Position

The Process Hazard Safety Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the safe development, scale-up, and optimization of specialty chemical processes at FutureFuel Chemical Company. Working within the Process Hazard Evaluation, Scale-up, and Optimization (PHES) Laboratory, this engineer will bridge research, process design, and production operations to support both innovation and compliance. The position offers the opportunity to work with advanced tools and technologies, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and contribute directly to process safety, efficiency, and cost improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Chemical Engineering.
• Strong background in process hazard evaluation, ASPEN process modeling, air emission estimates, process scale-up, and process optimization.
• Ability to apply technical knowledge to assess process safety situations and alternatives.
• Strong technical and business writing skills.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills with initiative and follow-through.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Chemical Engineering.
• Experience with batch and continuous production of complex organic specialty chemicals.
• Familiarity with tools such as Mettler RC1 Calorimeter, Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Reactive System Screening Tool, CHETAH, and ASPEN.
• Supervisory or mentoring experience with technologists and technicians.

Responsibilities

• Conduct hazard evaluations of compounds and entire process systems for reactive chemistry issues, including OSHA PSM requirements, facility siting, vapor release modeling, vapor cloud/dust explosion analysis, and calorimetry studies.
• Perform process modeling (batch and continuous) using ASPEN.
• Support process scale-up activities including mixing studies, agitator and reactor design, and kinetics evaluation.
• Lead process optimization initiatives focused on raw material conversion, yield, mass/energy balances, cycle time, throughput, and cost reduction.
• Collaborate with R&D chemists, engineers, technicians, and production managers from bench scale through commercialization.
• Document hazard, scale-up, and optimization findings in technical reports.
• Serve as a member of the Process Safety Review Committee.
• Provide coaching, supervision, and development to technologists and technicians.
• Remain flexible in work assignments, contributing independently or as part of multidisciplinary teams.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees