Process Engineer
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Industry: Chemical


Resides: California


Salary: Open

 

Relocate: Yes

 

On the Market:

OBJECTIVE:

A senior level chemical engineering position, which employs and challenges my extensive process design, project implementation and plant startup experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

(Company) California

2002- Present            Senior Process Engineer

(Company) California

2000 - 2002                 Senior Process Engineer

Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems Inc., Chesterfield, Missouri

1997 - 2000                 Senior Process Engineer

Specialty Minerals Inc. (Manpower Technical Services), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1997                            Contract Process/Project Engineer

STV Incorporated, Douglassville, Pennsylvania

1994, 1996-1997         Senior Process Engineer

BE&K Delaware, Inc., Newark, Delaware

1994-1996                   Senior Process Engineer

 

Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, Clinton, New Jersey

1988 - 1993                 Senior Process Design Engineer

Responsible for all aspects of chemical and petroleum process design and project implementation for various processes, including:

-     Developing project scopes and project costs estimates.

-     Computer simulation and hand calculation of heat and material balances, distillation and absorbing tower operations, and flash calculations.

-     Performing supporting process calculations and preparing specifications for all required process equipment items, including vessels and internals, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, instruments, control valves and relief valves.

-     Preparing Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs). 

-     Reviewing all aspects of design and construction for consistency and safety, including leading HAZOP and pre-startup (PSSR) reviews.

-     Developing procedures and design standards as required to reflect changes in design policy, experience with previous designs, regulatory changes, customer design standards and the requirements of specific projects.

-     Leading a team of designers and other engineers in process design efforts.

-     Coordinating with equipment and material vendors and construction contractors to insure timely delivery of equipment and effective project implementation.

Major Projects have included:

-          Startup Engineer for four new sulfuric acid plants, including the world’s largest single train sulfur burning plant, at Laverton, Western Australia

-     On-site small projects team, implementing all aspects of design and project execution for small ($50K-$500K) capital improvement and maintenance jobs at Cabot Performance Materials’ Boyertown, PA facility.

-     Process development, preliminary design and feasibility study for a facility to produce 5MM lbs/year of cesium formate, for Cabot Performance Materials.  Facility is operating at the mine site in Manitoba, Canada.

 -    Coordination of process design effort for a major expansion of a Saudi Arabian refinery, involving the addition or revamp of multiple processing units.  Specific responsibilities on this project:

-     coordination of collection and dissemination of process data for existing refinery units

-     writing the Job Procedures Manual for the project.

-     evaluation of competing licensed technologies for several processing units, on both technical and commercial bases.

-     assuring integration between existing units and new facilities designed by various licensors and by FW. 

-     Design of a distillate hydrotreater for Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij, in SIPM's offices in The Hague, Netherlands.

-     Project engineering for a facility to produce pharmaceuticals for clinical trials for Eli Lilly & Co.

-     Design, procurement and startup of a distillation column to produce semiconductor grade hydrogen bromide from technical grade material for a major specialty gas manufacturer.

Long Island Lighting Company, Hicksville, New York

1986 - 1988                 Environmental Engineer

Responsible for regulatory compliance for hazardous material storage, underground and above ground storage tank registration and testing (MUST), and wastewater discharge permit (NPDES) programs at numerous company facilities.

1984 - 1986                 Assistant Engineer - Gas Engineering Department

Responsible for producing plans, cost estimates, bills of materials, local permit applications, etc. for the installation of facilities for the transmission and distribution of natural gas.

General Electric Company, Wilmington, North Carolina

1981 - 1983     Engineering Co-op Student

Performed chemical analyses, operated pilot plants, conducted production scale tests, and routine process troubleshooting for the production of fuels-grade uranium dioxide.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering  June 1984 - Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) May 1981 - State University of New York College at Oneonta





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