Senior Process Engineer, Design and Scale Up New Chemistry From Pilot to New Plants | 3663181

Pave Talent; New Jersey; On-site; USD 110,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Paid time off (25 days + holidays)

401(k) match

Medical, dental & vision

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Pave Talent is seeking a senior chemical engineer for a global specialty chemicals client, to design and scale production processes on site in central New Jersey. You will convert pilot data into plant designs, build hardware and drawings, and supervise startup activities.

The role requires deep reaction chemistry, experience moving chemistry from pilot to production, and the ability to travel up to 50% during construction. Relocation support and a 10% bonus are available.

Qualifications

• Chemical Engineering or Chemistry degree required.
• Seven or more years taking chemistry from pilot to production, with time in both.
• Deep reaction chemistry and a track record of solving hard process problems.
• U.S. work authorization without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Able to travel up to 50% during construction phases.

Responsibilities

• Turn pilot data into a plant design: the calculations, the hardware, the drawings and the model.
• Build and test prototypes, then stand next to them at startup on new sites.
• Run the experiments yourself to learn what drives the process.
• Step in when a process misbehaves, find the cause and hand a working process to the plant team.

Skills

Seven+ years experience

Deep reaction chemistry

P&IDs

Simulation models

U.S. work authorization

Travel up to 50%

Education

Chemical Engineering or Chemistry degree

Tools

P&IDs

Simulation models

Job description

Pave Talent is hiring for a global specialty chemicals company adding U.S. manufacturing capacity for an advanced material. You will join the small engineering group that decides how it gets made at scale, on site in central New Jersey. This is the chemistry, not the chip.

• Engineers equally at home running an experiment and walking down a reactor skid
• Chemical engineers and chemists from heavy chemicals, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals or specialty chemical process development
• Builders who want to design it, choose the hardware and be there when it starts up
• People energized by construction-phase travel

This is not a plant sustaining role, and it is not semiconductor fab work (deposition, etch, lithography).

• Turn pilot data into a plant design: the calculations, the hardware, the drawings and the model
• Build and test prototypes, then stand next to them at startup on new sites
• Run the experiments yourself to learn what drives the process
• Step in when a process misbehaves, find the cause and hand a working process to the plant team

Travel comes in waves. During construction expect up to about 50%, usually a stretch in New Jersey followed by site trips every two to three weeks. Between builds it is much quieter. As the team puts it: "We're not making semiconductors, we're making materials, we're making chemistries."

• A Chemical Engineering or Chemistry degree
• Seven or more years taking chemistry from pilot to production, with time in both
• Deep reaction chemistry and a record of solving hard process problems
• You build your own P&IDs and simulation models
• U.S. work authorization without sponsorship, now or in the future
• Able to travel up to about 50% during construction phases
• $110,000 to $164,000 base. Offers usually land near the middle of the range
• A 10% target bonus that can pay above target in a strong year
• Relocation support for the right candidate, confirmed at offer
• At least 25 paid days off a year, holidays included
• A 401(k) match that vests immediately
• Medical, dental and vision from the first of the month after you start
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement

If your background fits, our recruiter will reach out, usually within two business days, and tell you who the company is and what the team is like. Your application is private.

Pave Talent and our client are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.