Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute engineering strategies to support the company’s vision and technology scale
up. - Provide advice, guidance, and authorization for major plans and procedures, in line with established policies.
- Collaborate with the R&D team on designing and modeling process units for successful technology scale-up, including translating lab and pilot scale results into commercial plant designs.
- Optimize unit operations in scale-up designs, balancing process requirements, economic factors, operator effectiveness, and safety considerations.
- Project manage external engineering firms to advance engineering designs supporting technology scale-up.
- Work with R&D, sales, and marketing to evaluate the competitiveness of new engineering technologies.
- Lead and oversee engineering priorities, leveraging your expertise to inform technical decision making and experimental outcomes.
- Perform mechanical design, heat transfer, chemical process modelling, and techno-economic analysis using industry software tools.
- Mentor junior engineers and technicians in the technology scale-up process.
Education / Experience:
- BS/MS with 15+ years of industrial experience, or PhD with 10+ years of industrial experience, in Chemical/Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years in a technical management or leadership role preferred.
- Direct experience in technical or operations roles within the downstream oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper, or related industries (EPC background)
- Experience with scale-up, start-up, and operation of fluid bed reactors.
- Demonstrated ability to design, model, optimize, and construct components for industrial chemical engineering systems.
- Proficiency with CAD, chemical modeling, and advanced computational software.
- Experience engaging with engineering, procurement, and construction firms.
- Strong mentoring skills and experience in directing junior engineers and advancing their technical knowledge.
- Excellent industry overview with a focus on leveraging reference cases and best practices.
