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Summary: The Process Engineer 3 (PE3) independently executes process engineering activities for FQT’s technologies. This role encompasses managing engineering tasks from project conception through detailed engineering, commissioning, system start-up, and plant optimization. The PE3 is expected to demonstrate advanced engineering expertise and play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of FQT’s engineering projects and technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Relationships

• Initiates and develops long-term client partnerships, gathering feedback from current clients and laying the groundwork for lasting relationships
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of FQT departments, leveraging them to deliver excellence. Mentors less experienced engineers and identifies individual training needs, providing technical advice

Process Engineering:

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring strict adherence to technical requirements and best practices
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of FQT Process Engineering deliverables across the FEL process, ensuring alignment with project needs
• Prepares Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, demonstrating technical expertise, attention to detail, and high-quality work
• Leads client presentations of engineering deliverables, communicating technical details clearly. Works within the team to resolve complex issues
• Independently sizes equipment, piping, instrumentation, and valves (manual, automated, relief), ensuring precise technical specifications of high quality
• Independently prepares Engineering Deliverables: Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, Engineering Lists, and Project Estimates.
• Independently contributes to process startup, demonstrating proficiency in startup procedures, troubleshooting skills, and ensuring accurate execution of startup tasks.
• Accurately prepares process control philosophies, functional descriptions, SOPs, and training documents, maintaining high quality and speed.
• Precisely performs process calculations and modeling in Excel and ChemCAD for large-scale projects, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Demonstrates proficiency in integrating Engineering practices into FQT projects, ensuring smooth progression through the FEL stages
• Develops plant trials, incorporate findings into engineering deliverables, including patents, to progress FQT technologies and validate new solutions

Safety and Quality:

• Demonstrates the ability to lead while participating in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) to identify potential hazards in design
• Demonstrates commitment to quality, ensuring deliverables meet QA/QC standards

Project Management:

• Manages cost estimation and budgeting for engineering tasks with accuracy
• Independently manages deliverable timelines, ensuring adherence to project schedules
• Manages team interactions effectively, providing informal guidance to junior team members

Qualifications:

Skills:

• Utilizes problem solving skills to identify challenges, generating solutions and implement solutions
• Is trusted by the team and has the knowledge and confidence to clearly conveys ideas and more importantly concerns to keep projects on track
• Brings the team together to win. Is highly accountable, trustworthy and can collaborate effectively to support FQTs strategy
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills of Communication, Influence, Integrity, Decision-Making, Empathy, and Adaptability within the engineering team and FQT

Characteristics:

• Consistently demonstrates an optimistic view for good in every situation, is open to new ideas and feedback, and has the resilience to bounce back from setbacks. Appreciates others' viewpoints and is confident in your own abilities
• Brings enthusiastic, vigor and focus to the workplace every day, maintains momentum and is highly adaptable, especially during challenging times
• Consistently accomplishes complex goals with attention to detail an perseverance.  Is highly accountable for individual and team results, whether they are successes or failures
• Consistently demonstrates high initiative and eagerness to learn; actively seeks out opportunities to contribute to the team

Technical Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field
• Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred
• 6-15 years of practical engineering experience
• Strong understanding of process engineering principles, mass and energy balances, and system/equipment sizing

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

• Travel requirements vary significantly by project. While the average travel expectation is roughly 30%, certain projects may require up to 100% travel and could involve shift work
• Valid driver’s license required

Fluid Quip Technologies® offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment. 

Green Plains and Fluid Quip do not provide immigration-related employment sponsorship for new hires (for example, H-1B, F-1 OPT, TN, or other work visas). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and be able to maintain ongoing work authorization without employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.  

Company Description  

Fluid Quip Technologies® (Fluid Quip) provides custom technologies and engineering services to the biofuel and biochemical industries worldwide. Fluid Quip has commercialized multiple technologies to enhance the base corn-to-ethanol dry grind process, create new and novel alternative feed products, and supply the growing need for carbohydrate feedstocks into the biochemical market. Green Plains Inc., Ospraie Management, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock hold a majority interest in Fluid Quip.