Sr. Process Engineer (Pulp & Paper) - Greenville, SC

S&B Engineers and Constructors • Greenville, SC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

S&B is seeking a Process Engineer to support its Greenville, South Carolina team. The role requires full competence in conventional process engineering and independent judgment in evaluating, selecting, and adapting standard process engineering methods and procedures. The engineer will work on pulp and paper projects, including capital projects, and may provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers or specialists.

The position involves developing process and control features with clients, gathering operating and equipment information at existing plants, preparing equipment specifications, communicating process designs across client and design teams, participating in process safety reviews, preparing operator instruction manuals, and contributing to contract proposals. The work is normally performed in a business office, with occasional visits or temporary assignments at operating plants or construction sites.

Requirements

• Normally requires at least a four-year degree in Chemical Engineering and/or Pulp and Paper Engineering.
• Minimum of 10–20 years’ experience in Process/Design Engineering or a related functional area, or equivalent working knowledge and experience.
• Considerable experience using computer software packages and automated engineering and design tools.
• Significant experience as a lead process engineer on capital projects.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and to present information effectively and respond to questions.
• Ability to work with probability, statistical inference, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions.
• Ability to conduct or participate in occasional field trips to operating plants or construction sites, including standing, walking, reaching, climbing, balancing, and lifting up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a paper mill environment.
• Registration as a licensed professional engineer, or willingness to obtain registration.
• Design engineering experience with material handling, including chipping, feeders, screening, washing, conveying, storage, and stack/reclaim.
• Direct paper machine design experience, including specifications and calculations.
• Design engineering experience with recycled fibers, including material handling, screening, cleaning, rejects handling, agglomeration, dispersion, flotation, chemical systems, and water systems.
• Design engineering experience with pulping and bleaching, including cooking, mechanical processes, washing, screening, blow heat and NCG, causticizing, bleaching, and safety.
• Design engineering experience with papermaking, including stock preparation, paper machines, additives, finishing, and roll handling for liner, medium, coated board, printing/writing, recycled, and pulp machine grades.
• Design engineering experience with power and recovery, including recovery and power boilers, turbines, feedwater systems, cooling towers, evaporators, concentrators, and environmental systems.
• WinGEMS process modeling experience.
• TAPPI paper machine drive studies experience.
• Headbox replacement project experience.

Responsibilities

• Meet with clients’ technical staff to develop acceptable processes and control features.
• Visit existing plants to gather operating data and equipment information.
• Prepare equipment specifications.
• Communicate process designs to clients and other design disciplines.
• Participate in process safety reviews.
• Prepare operators instruction manuals.
• Participate in preparing contract proposals.
• May provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers or specialists.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible and hybrid work schedules.
• Comprehensive benefits program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior