Process Engineer: Scale-Up for Industrial Production

Surge Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge Group, a Bay Area-based early-stage advanced manufacturing company, seeks a Process Engineer to move chemistry and process concepts from development through scale-up, plant design, commissioning and functioning industrial production.

You will own process development for a critical-material refining line, design production processes from R&D to fabrication, and work with mechanical and hardware teams to evolve systems.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years hands-on process or chemical engineering experience.
• Experience in advanced manufacturing, chemical processing, industrial production or similar high-velocity environments.
• Designing, building or commissioning a functioning chemical production line or industrial plant.
• Experience spanning both R&D and scale-to-production.
• Evidence of increasing technical ownership and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own process and chemical engineering development for a critical-material refining line.
• Design and stand up chemical production processes from R&D through production.
• Develop and commission functioning process lines and plant systems.
• Translate findings into scalable manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with mechanical and hardware teams as development evolves.
• Establish engineering processes and internal documentation standards.
• Solve cross-disciplinary problems across chemistry, manufacturing, hardware and operations.
• Take substantial ownership within a small, early-stage engineering team.

Skills

Process engineering

Advanced manufacturing

Plant commissioning

R&D to production

Technical ownership

Job description

Surge Group, a Bay Area-based early-stage advanced manufacturing company, seeks a Process Engineer to move chemistry and process concepts from development through scale-up, plant design, commissioning and functioning industrial production.

You will own process development for a critical-material refining line, design production processes from R&D to fabrication, and work with mechanical and hardware teams to evolve systems.