Senior Process Engineer

Green Plains Inc.; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

A leading biorefining company in Cedar Rapids, IA seeks a Senior Process Engineer to lead and manage complex engineering activities. This role involves overseeing a team of engineers, providing mentorship, and ensuring high-quality deliverables in alignment with project goals. The candidate should hold a degree in chemical engineering and possess over 12 years of experience. Competitive salary and benefits package are offered, including health insurance and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of practical engineering experience.
• Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred.
• Mastery of process engineering principles including complex mass and energy balances.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage complex process engineering activities.
• Oversee a team of engineers providing mentorship.
• Ensure quality engineering deliverables.

Skills

Problem-solving

Clear communication

Collaborative environment

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or a related field

Job description

FQT Cedar Rapids, IA
6105 Rockwell Dr NE
Suite C
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, USA

Summary

The Senior Process Engineer (SPE) will lead and manage the most complex process engineering activities for FQT’s technologies. This role involves guiding engineering projects from inception through system start-up, optimization, and project closeout. The SPE will oversee a team of engineers, providing mentorship and ensuring the highest quality engineering deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Relationships

• Fosters long-term client partnerships based on mutual respect, communication, and trust. Seeks feedback from clients and maintains relationships during and after project completion
• Provides mentorship and training to process engineers. Identifies department training needs and provides solutions

Process Engineering

• Applies comprehensive knowledge of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring alignment with technical requirements and industry best practices
• Applies comprehensive understanding of FQT Process Engineering deliverables throughout the FEL process, ensuring alignment with project goals
• Leads the review of Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, ensuring the technology’s accuracy and alignment with key project objectives
• Oversees delivery of engineering solutions to clients, ensuring clarity in technical communication. Coordinates teams to address challenges and deliver results
• Leads the selection and application for process equipment and piping systems, ensuring optimal performance and alignment with project objectives
• Leads the development of Engineering Deliverables: Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, and Project Estimates, ensuring quality and schedule adherence
• Leads process startup activities, coordinating team efforts, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring that startup objectives are met efficiently and safely.
• Leads the development of functional documents, ensuring clarity and alignment with project requirements
• Leads the process modeling efforts across projects, providing technical guidance and ensuring compliance with FQTs best practices
• Oversees collaboration with Third Party Engineering disciplines to lead cross-disciplinary coordination and ensure successful project completion through the FEL stages
• Leads plant trials and R&D efforts, including patents, ensuring alignment with project goals and innovation targets

Safety and Quality

• Leads participation in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), ensuring potential hazards are identified and addressed
• Leads peer reviews, ensuring engineering outputs meet or exceed QA/QC expectations

Project Management

• Leads engineering cost estimation, performs peer reviews, ensuring alignment with project budgets and financial goals
• Leads project scheduling, ensuring milestones and project deliverables are met
• Leads and mentors project teams, ensuring best practices are followed

Qualifications

Skills

• Leads problem-solving efforts by diagnosing challenges, developing advanced solutions, and ensuring their successful implementation
• Communicates with clarity and authority, facilitating trust with team members and clients. Effectively conveys complex technical details and addresses concerns
• Fosters a collaborative environment, driving team accountability and alignment to achieve shared objectives and further FQT’s mission
• Exemplifies strong leadership, guiding the team through decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptation to change while promoting integrity and empathy

Characteristics

• Demonstrates a proactive approach, consistently open to new ideas and feedback. Displays resilience in challenging situations and confidently supports others' viewpoints while providing expert insight
• Maintains a high level of enthusiasm and focus, consistently driving momentum across projects and teams, especially during high‑pressure situations
• Consistently delivers complex goals with meticulous attention to detail. Demonstrates ownership of results at both an individual and team level
• Exhibits a strong initiative to lead and innovate, consistently seeking opportunities to enhance team performance and contribute to project success

Technical Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field
• Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred
• 12+ years of practical engineering experience
• Mastery of process engineering principles, including complex mass and energy balances, system/equipment sizing, and system optimization

Work Environment / Physical Demands

• Travel requirements vary significantly by project. While the average travel expectation is roughly 30%, certain projects may require up to 100% travel and could involve shift work
• Valid driver’s license required

Fluid Quip Technologies® offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment.

Green Plains and Fluid Quip do not provide immigration-related employment sponsorship for new hires (for example, H‑1B, F‑1 OPT, TN, or other work visas). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis and be able to maintain ongoing work authorization without employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Fluid Quip Technologies® (Fluid Quip) provides custom technologies and engineering services to the biofuel and biochemical industries worldwide. Fluid Quip has commercialized multiple technologies to enhance the base corn‑to‑ethanol dry grind process, create new and novel alternative feed products, and supply the growing need for carbohydrate feedstocks into the biochemical market. Green Plains Inc., Ospraie Management, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock hold a majority interest in Fluid Quip.

Green Plains Inc. (NASDAQ:GPRE) is a leading biorefining company advancing the transition to a low‑carbon world through the production of renewable fuels and sustainable, high‑impact ingredients. The company leverages agricultural, biological, and fermentation expertise to transform annually renewable crops into low‑carbon energy and sustainable feedstocks. Green Plains is actively deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions at three of its facilities this year. Through innovation and operational excellence, Green Plains is reducing the carbon intensity of its products while delivering value to stakeholders. For more information, visit www.gpreinc.com.