Senior Project Engineer — Plant-Based Oils (On‑Site)

AAK South Latin America; Richmond (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k) matching

Life and Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Job summary

AAK is hiring a Project Engineer for our Richmond, California manufacturing plant. This on-site role supports operations by designing and starting-up new facilities, improving filtration, deodorization, bleaching, and processing flow control to stay ahead in the industry.

It manages capital strategy, product commercialization projects, and infrastructure improvements. The ideal candidate has a chemical engineering background, 10+ years in project-based engineering, and proven ability to meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical Preferred).
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in project-based engineering with a focus on capital project execution.
• Excellent understanding and ability to apply fundamentals of heat transfer, fluid transport and reaction chemistry.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Track record of meeting schedule deadlines.
• Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time to US and foreign destinations.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US, now and in the future, without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Performs process studies to identify opportunities to improve manufacturing and energy efficiency.
• Presents results to management both verbally and in written reports.
• Engineering
• Executes capital projects managing schedule, scope and costs.
• Manages project finances, with a strong control of scope, schedule deviation.
• Reports on capital projects to management and senior management regarding current activities and forecast.
• Develops capital investments projects following the appropriate stage gate methodology.
• Diagnoses process deficiencies, and create design improvements.
• Performs process modeling studies to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develops with the stake holders clear project premises, budgets scopes and detailed schedules.
• Evaluates process schemes from operating data as needed.
• Prepares process datasheets for equipment and instrumentation.
• Updates and maintains documentation such as material balances, P&IDs and automation functional descriptions.
• Additional responsibilities
• Provide oversight of contractor(s) process design performance
• Participate in planning for plant commissioning & start-up
• Provide consulting on process questions as a member of the start-up team

Skills

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Strong fundamentals in heat transfer

Fluid transport knowledge

Reaction chemistry

Project schedule discipline

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

AAK is hiring a Project Engineer for our Richmond, California manufacturing plant. This on-site role supports operations by designing and starting-up new facilities, improving filtration, deodorization, bleaching, and processing flow control to stay ahead in the industry.

It manages capital strategy, product commercialization projects, and infrastructure improvements. The ideal candidate has a chemical engineering background, 10+ years in project-based engineering, and proven ability to meet