Process Engineer
Work Location: Hybrid (with as-needed travel to Oak Ridge, Tennessee and/or Santa Clara, California)
Rate: Not Defined / need Candidate’s requested rate
Hours: 40+
The required qualifications are as follows:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in chemical engineering or a closely related discipline
- Experience designing, developing, and validating chemical process systems through multiple lifecycle stages
- Ability to develop process flow sheets, heat and material balances, P&IDs, and equipment specifications
- Strong technical writing skills; ability to produce documentation suitable for regulatory filings
Position Details:
- Conduct design, development, prototyping, and validation work on chemical separation subsystems including pyro-processing, off-gas separation, and waste immobilization
- Define system and unit process requirements and validation methodologies; establish performance criteria, test protocols, and prototyping equipment
- Develop technical parameters and deploy and operate test systems to refine system design and operation
- Complete equipment sizing and specifications; develop instrument process data specifications
- Develop process flow sheets and heat and material balances using process simulation tools
- Develop and maintain process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
- Generate documentation to guide fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of subsystems
- Serve as technical lead through multiple facility lifecycle stages
- Generate technical documentation for inclusion in regulatory filings
- Collaborate cross-functionally with facility design, unit process equipment, and licensing teams
Strongly Preferred:
- Proficiency with process simulation tools such as AspenTech, ChemCAD, Promax, or similar; familiarity with Python or Excel-based engineering analysis
- Experience deploying or scaling processes from pilot plant to industrial scale — greenfield and/or brownfield facilities
- Commercial or government nuclear industry experience
- Familiarity with pyro-processing, off-gas separation, or waste immobilization processes
- Experience generating documentation for nuclear licensing or other highly regulated environments
- Comfort operating as a technical lead in a startup or fast-paced engineering environment
Pay: $80.00 - $95.00 per hour
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oak Ridge, TN 37830
