Senior Process Engineer — Scale-Up & FEL, Equity

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13 Company-wide Holidays

Flexible vacation days

Equity

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to lead complex process systems from concept through commissioning in large industrial facilities. You will apply chemical engineering fundamentals across cryogenic, power generation, and gas processing domains, driving FEL maturity, heat and material balances, P&IDs, and safe operating practices.

Successful candidates bring 7+ years in industrial process engineering, hands-on experience with large-scale equipment, and a proven

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (or closely related discipline).
• 7+ years of relevant industrial process engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated depth of experience.
• Strong command of chemical engineering fundamentals including mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, unit operations, and process dynamics and control.
• Experience with process scale-up, FEL, and translating process requirements into commercial-scale equipment and facilities.

Responsibilities

• Own process engineering scope for complex systems from early concept through design, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation.
• Develop process concepts and translate fundamental engineering requirements into practical, commercially viable industrial systems.
• Develop process design bases, operating envelopes, design cases, process flow diagrams (PFDs), heat and material balances, utility balances, P&IDs, equipment lists, line lists, and process datasheets.
• Lead or contribute to process safety activities including HAZOPs, design reviews, relief and depressurization studies, consequence evaluations, and development of safeguards.
• Develop process control philosophies, operating sequences, alarm requirements, permissives, interlocks, and operating limits in collaboration with controls engineers and operators.
• Perform multidisciplinary technical reviews to ensure that systems are safe, operable, maintainable, and capable of achieving their intended process function.

Skills

Process engineering fundamentals

FEL experience

Troubleshooting

Cross-discipline collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

EcoSim

Aspen HYSYS

Aspen Plus

AVEVA Process Simulation

Job description

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC is seeking a Senior Process Engineer to lead complex process systems from concept through commissioning in large industrial facilities. You will apply chemical engineering fundamentals across cryogenic, power generation, and gas processing domains, driving FEL maturity, heat and material balances, P&IDs, and safe operating practices.

Successful candidates bring 7+ years in industrial process engineering, hands-on experience with large-scale equipment, and a proven