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Lead Process Engineer Asset Recruitment is seeking a Lead Process Engineer to join our client's multi discipline process team.
The Lead Process Engineer will oversee and guide the process design development, offering technical leadership and direction throughout the project. They will ensure the project meets the necessary design criteria and client requirements, focusing on timely delivery, productivity, and quality.
In this role, they will manage, inspire, and drive project teams, utilizing their technical expertise, interpersonal skills, and conflict resolution abilities.
Qualifications
• A bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering with at least 7-10 years of experience in the design of process systems in Pharmaceutical/Nutritional/Medical devices
• Knowledge of relevant cGMP requirements and ISPE Baselines
• Fluency in English. Italian knowledge extremely fluent/mother tongue
• Software knowledge: Office; Super Pro(R) & Schedule Pro(R), PipeFlo, Flexsim, or other process engineering simulations software
• Willingness to work in an international company, to share and capitalize expertise with other offices
Process Design Basis
•Applies process design criteria, guidelines and contract requirements to process design work.
•May be responsible for interacting with licensors, including establishing design basis and license or evaluation.
•Applies process design criteria and guidelines to all phases of process engineering.
Flow Diagrams
•Prepares flow diagrams and participates in flow diagram reviews.
•Is able to prepare and review flow diagrams with total information to correspond to the flow sequence, operability and the safety of the unit/system.
•Answers questions, with confidence, from other disciplines and clients as to the requirement / function of each item on the flow sheet.
•Prepares and reviews metallurgy flow diagrams.
•Back checks, updates, and ensures consistency with related design documents such as specification sheets and with other units.
Equipment Datasheets
•Prepares process and utility equipment specification sheets. Might be responsible for design of a system or a complete unit.
•Prepares equipment duty specifications for all equipment including complex equipment such as reactors.
•Prepares detail design specification for all equipment.
•Reviews input from other disciplines for compatibility with process design for all equipment.
Control Philosophy
•Prepares instrumentation process data. Assists in establishing control philosophy for relatively complex control systems to meet process objectives, including safety.
•Prepares control valves process data, relief valve data, analyser data.
•Interprets control philosophy of relatively complex control systems.
•Reviews control systems specification sheets for consistency with process data
•Reviews logic diagrams for relatively simple loops.
•Evaluates alternative control strategies to meet process objectives.
Calculations
•Performs specifications/calculations and technical studies.
•Completes conceptual developments of a major system and performs all necessary calculations for process design of systems and equipment within the assigned area.
•Ensures that calculations are legible, well organized, correctly references as to equipment/system, dated and signed.
•Performs relatively complex technical studies under general supervision.
Equip Selection/Review
•Reviews and approves equipment bid tabulations and vendor data.
•Ensures consistency of vendor data with other design documents such as flow diagrams, area classifications drawings, utility summaries, etc
•Expeditiously reviews equipment requests for quotes, purchase requests, bid tabulations and vendor data for conformance to specifications, process compatibility, safety and operability.
Plant Safety/Operability
•Responsible for performing various process engineering work functions in a manner that will provide a safe and operable plant
•Understands obligations and authority to make appropriate design decisions necessary for plant safety and operability.
•Reviews the unit/plant layout for unsafe piping/equipment arrangement and for adequate access to critical valves.
•Identifies potentially lethal/toxic substances and designs the systems handling those substances in accordance with established procedures.
•Assists in specification of any required safety systems (eye-washers, safety-showers, gas detectors, etc).
Operating Manual
•Assists in the production of plant operating manuals. May assume overall responsibility for manuals relatively less complex units.
•Understands and applies guidelines developed by others regarding the required contents of the operating manuals.
•Writes assigned sections of the manuals for complex units or writes complete manuals for less complex units. The manuals should be technically correct, complete and clearly written.
Field Work
•Assists in process fieldwork.
•Shows a willingness to accept field assignments to fulfill project requirements (personal circumstances permitting).
•Performs, under genera supervision, a plant checkout as required to ensure flow diagrams and designs have been correctly implemented and all tie-in correctly located.
•Assists, under general supervision in operator training programs and in plant start-up and /or plant performance testing as required.
•Assists, under general supervision, in writing of the Process Final Job Report.
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