Senior Process Engineer

DNV GL, USA; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DNV Energy Systems seeks a Senior Process Engineer to join our Low-Carbon Services team in the United States. You will work with process engineers to identify customizable solutions for clients' energy transition challenges, supporting hydrogen, LNG, and carbon capture initiatives.

This role emphasizes process modeling, FEL documentation, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. The position offers a dynamic hybrid schedule with offices in Seattle, WA; Houston, TX; Oakland, CA; Medford,

Qualifications

• Experience with low-carbon fuels, hydrogen production and its integration into supply chains or derivative production (ammonia, methanol, synthetic fuels)
• Experience with LNG value chain and application to power/ CCS projects
• Strong ability to generate FEL documentation and perform process modeling at various facility scales

Responsibilities

• Perform technical due diligence on processes for producing and using hydrogen and hydrogen-derived products (methanol, ammonia, synthetic fuels).
• Scale down processes and cost estimates for client interests; design and optimize production processes of different scales.
• Apply deep knowledge of low-carbon technologies and process modeling to predict scenarios for client decisions.
• Develop, lead, and coordinate mass and energy balance methodologies to assess end-use applications' technical and economic impacts.
• Contribute to know-how building and knowledge management within the Process Engineering team.
• Support business development by leading and participating in proposal preparation.
• Manage work for multiple projects and proposals in a fast-paced environment.
• Review capital project documentation at FEL-2 to Construction to ensure information completeness.
• Design processes using process modeling tools to prepare a Cost Estimate Class 4 as per AACE.

Skills

Hydrogen production processes

LNG processing

Process modeling

Mass and energy balance

Due diligence

Proposal development

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

FEL (Front-end Loading)

CCS knowledge

Job description

DNV Energy Systems is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to join our low-carbon team. In this role, you will work with a group of process engineers, supporting other colleagues in identifying customizable solutions to clients' challenges in their energy transition endeavors. Your contributions will help maintain DNV's know-how around low carbon fuels, and LNG as a fuel and feed to other processes. This know-how will readily respond to clients' requests in a fast-paced environment.
DNV - Energy Systems -Low Carbon Services aspires to become the preferred business partner to support customers in mitigating their risks by providing high-quality due diligence studies focusing on a) green/blue hydrogen production and its integration to a supply chain or the production of derivatives such as ammonia, methanol or synthetic fuels. b) LNG production value chain and c) utilization of natural gas for power applications combined with CCS. Among the opportunities that a process engineer in the team will deliver are process modeling of several scales of a facility depending on the customer’s requirements and the preparation of Front-end Loading (FEL) documents from the identification of the opportunity (FEL 0) to Select (FEL 2).

This role can be based in Seattle, WA; Houston, TX; Oakland, CA; Medford, MA; Portland, OR offices, presenting a dynamic hybrid schedule where employees will typically spend three (3) days per week working from either a DNV office or client location/site. Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

The position may also be considered at other DNV offices within the continental U.S.

What You’ll Do

• Perform technical due diligence on processes for producing and using hydrogen, including processes to make hydrogen-derived products such as methanol, ammonia, synthetic fuels, LNG, and power generation with carbon capture and sequestration.
• Being able to scale down processes and their corresponding cost estimates matching customers' interests work in designing and optimizing production processes of different scales
• Leverage a deep understanding of low-carbon technologies and process modeling to predict and deliver scenarios supporting the customer's strategic decision-making process
• Develop, lead, and coordinate mass and energy balance methodologies to assess end-use applications' technical and economic impacts
• Contribute to the know-how building and knowledge management of the Process Engineering team
• Support business development by leading and participation in the preparation of proposals.
• Manage work related activities for multiple projects and proposals in a fast-paced environment
• Review billion-dollar capital project documentation in several maturation levels such as FEL-2, FEL-3, and Construction to comment on information completeness.
• Design processes using process modeling tools to produce a list of major equipment for preparation of a Cost Estimate Class 4 as per AACE.