Senior Gas Processing Engineer - Hands-On Optimization

Blue Signal Search; Warsaw (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Blue Signal Search is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to lead design, startup, and ongoing improvements for industrial gas-processing facilities near Warsaw, NC. The role blends strong process design fundamentals with practical field experience, collaborating across engineering, construction, and operations.

Responsibilities span from early process definition to startup, with hands-on involvement in commissioning, optimization, and troubleshooting to improve plant reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong process fundamentals including heat and material balances.
• Create and review PFDs and P&IDs.
• Experience sizing compressors, pumps, heat exchangers, and vessels.
• Background in industrial gas processing and related gas-treatment applications.
• Familiarity with process instrumentation and automation such as control valves, PLCs, VFDs, SCADA.
• Field-based experience supporting construction, commissioning, startup, and optimization.
• Ability to interpret drawings and combine data to solve plant problems.

Responsibilities

• Own process design deliverables for gas-handling facilities including balances, PFDs, and P&IDs.
• Size and specify compressors, pumps, heat exchangers, vessels, piping and valves.
• Apply gas-processing knowledge across compression, dehydration, and separation.
• Identify process limitations from operating data and field observations to optimize performance.
• Coordinate with instrumentation and automation systems including SCADA and PLCs.
• Serve as a hands-on engineering resource during construction, startup, and performance activities.
• Review drawings and field conditions to resolve technical issues and support decisions.
• Provide technical guidance across multidisciplinary projects.

Skills

PFDs & P&IDs

Gas processing

Instrumentation & automation

Field operations

Equipment sizing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

SCADA

PLC

VFDs

Job description

Blue Signal Search is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to lead design, startup, and ongoing improvements for industrial gas-processing facilities near Warsaw, NC. The role blends strong process design fundamentals with practical field experience, collaborating across engineering, construction, and operations.

Responsibilities span from early process definition to startup, with hands-on involvement in commissioning, optimization, and troubleshooting to improve plant reliability and performance.