Sr. Process Engineer

FLSmidth • Salt Lake City, UT

4d • Remote

About The Position

Join a Global Leader in Mining Technology FLSmidth is a leading mining equipment supplier supported by a global team of talented and ambitious employees across more than 60 countries. You will be joining the Downstream Gold product line within the FLSmidth group. This team provides gold and silver recovery systems and equipment to clients around the globe. Our multidisciplinary group includes process, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers, as well as designers, working together to meet the high expectations of our clients. We engineer high-quality equipment and systems designed to meet the demanding needs of the precious metals industry and support reliable operation for years to come. Our goal is to become the leading equipment and systems provider in the gold and silver recovery market.

Requirements

• Strong experience in process engineering, process design, and project execution for industrial equipment and systems.
• Proficient in developing and reviewing P&IDs, PFDs, material and energy balances, control philosophies, functional specifications, process data sheets, and related engineering deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accurate, consistent, and high-quality engineering documentation.
• Ability to understand client specifications, project requirements, applicable standards, and scope of supply, and incorporate them into project deliverables.
• Experience specifying process equipment and system components, including valves, instruments, pumps, heat exchangers, tanks, piping, utilities, and related equipment.
• Ability to define instrumentation, control, interlock, alarm, and operating requirements in coordination with electrical and automation teams.
• Ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams, including process, mechanical, electrical, automation, structural, and design personnel.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance safety, performance, cost, schedule, constructability, operability, and maintainability.
• Ability to review and coordinate engineering deliverables across disciplines to ensure the overall project design is complete, consistent, and executable.

Responsibilities

• Drive and manage all aspects of the process engineering needs of the product line, including process engineering deliverables, project execution support, standardization, value engineering, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Serve as the overall technical lead for assigned projects, coordinating process, mechanical, electrical, automation, and structural engineering personnel through project execution.
• Thoroughly understand client specifications, project requirements, applicable standards, and scope of supply, and ensure these requirements are properly incorporated into project execution.
• Lead the project execution team in defining and communicating process requirements.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams, Chennai support staff, EPCs, vendors, and contract engineering resources to execute project deliverables.
• Ensure engineering deliverables across all disciplines are complete, coordinated, technically consistent, and aligned with project scope, client requirements, budget, and schedule.
• Develop and review process data sheets, sizing sheets, design criteria, calculations, and equipment requirements for process equipment and systems.
• Efficiently communicate process design requirements to designers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, automation engineers, structural engineers, vendors, and project management.
• Lead the development of process engineering deliverables, including P&IDs, PFDs, material and energy balances, equipment lists, control philosophies, functional specifications, and related project documents.
• Provide interdisciplinary design coordination to ensure drawings, specifications, equipment selections, layouts, controls, utilities, structural supports, and vendor information properly align.
• Identify and resolve engineering interface issues between process requirements, equipment design, piping and layout, electrical loads, instrumentation, controls, automation logic, and structural requirements.
• Review project deliverables for technical completeness, constructability, operability, maintainability, safety, and consistency between engineering disciplines.
• Participate in and support process design reviews, interdisciplinary design reviews, client reviews, and HAZOPs.
• Ensure safety-related project requirements are properly reflected in engineering deliverables, including equipment guarding, access and egress, maintenance clearances, lifting requirements, hot surfaces, chemical exposure, pressure and temperature hazards, ventilation needs, interlocks, alarms, and emergency shutdown requirements.
• Confirm safety-critical deliverables such as P&IDs, control philosophies, functional specifications, equipment layouts, access platforms, and interlock descriptions are reviewed for consistency with project hazards and operating requirements.
• Support project managers by identifying engineering risks, scope gaps, budget concerns, schedule impacts, technical issues, and decisions requiring client or management input.
• Provide technical direction and support to project engineers, designers, international support teams, EPCs, vendors, and contract engineering resources.
• Provide process and technical support at client mine sites, including pre-commissioning, commissioning, troubleshooting, productivity improvement, efficiency improvement, and operational support.
• Provide process and technical support to Sales and Marketing teams, including active support for proposal development, equipment selection, scope definition, and review of client requirements.
• Support project execution across product lines by providing process engineering guidance, technical review, and project deliverable support as needed.
• Responsible for leading the engineering team in the development of quality project deliverables that are technically complete, coordinated across disciplines, and issued on time and within budget.
• Ensure lessons learned from previous projects, commissioning, site support, vendor performance, and equipment operation are incorporated into future project execution and standard designs.
• Lead and contribute to standardization, value engineering, and team improvement initiatives that improve project execution, product quality, cost effectiveness, and engineering efficiency.
• Lead R&D initiatives related to system, process, equipment, safety, reliability, maintainability, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate effectively with international design and support staff. This position requires coordination across time zones and may require work or scheduled meetings outside normal office hours.

Benefits

• health, dental, disability, life, and voluntary insurance options starting on day one
• PTO
• 10 annual holidays
• parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Financial support for continuing education
• Annual bonus for Professional Engineering licenses
• Employee Assistance Program
• Relocation lump-sum pay-out, if applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed