About this opportunity
Pave Talent lists this Process Engineer, Chemical Scale-Up from Pilot to Production | First-to-Market Materials Build - 3614457 (Piscataway) opportunity in piscataway, New Jersey. Review the employerโs description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐-๐๐ผ-๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น-๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐.
A publicly traded specialty chemicals company is building new US manufacturing capacity for an advanced material headed into AI data center hardware, electric vehicles, and aerospace electronics. This seat sits in the global process engineering group that designs and scales it.
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Pave Talent is hiring on behalf of our client, a global specialty chemicals manufacturer whose chemistry sits inside nearly every major electronics category. This role is based at their central New Jersey engineering center, the technical hub for process design and pilot-scale development, not a back-office lab.
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- Engineers equally at home running an experiment in the lab and walking down a reactor skid on the plant floor
- Chemical engineers and chemists from heavy chemicals, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, or specialty chemical process development
- Builders who want to design the process, spec the equipment, and see it commissioned
- People energized by construction-phase travel, not drained by it
This is not a plant sustaining role, and it is not semiconductor fab process work (deposition, etch, lithography). The job is making the chemistry, not the chip.
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You'll join a small global process engineering group as the mid-level engineer who connects lab and pilot development to the production facilities. For the next two to three years the focus is scaling this material at new and expanding plants; after that, the role supports the company's other product lines.
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- Design, scale up, troubleshoot, and optimize chemical processes from lab and pilot plant through production
- Run process and equipment design calculations: mass and energy balances, heat transfer, fluid flow, mixing, equipment sizing
- Specify and prototype process equipment, including reactors, and support commissioning at new sites
- Design and execute design of experiments (DoE) studies to identify critical process parameters
- Build steady-state and dynamic simulations in Aspen Plus, ChemCAD, or DWSIM
- Analyze process performance with statistical process control (SPC) in Minitab, JMP, Python, or R
- Develop and maintain piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and equipment matrices; 3D piping models and isometrics (experience or willingness to learn)
- Lead data-driven root cause analysis and transfer new processes with R&D, Operations, and Quality
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Travel comes in waves. During construction phases expect up to about 50%, typically a stretch based in New Jersey followed by site trips every two to three weeks. Between builds it is much quieter. As the hiring manager put it: We're not making semiconductors, we're making materials, we're making chemistries.
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๐ฅ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ:
- Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline
- 5+ years in chemical process development, scale-up, or manufacturing (3+ with a Master's)
- Demonstrated reaction chemistry and complex process troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience in both lab or pilot settings and production plants
- Authorized to work in the US without current or future visa sponsorship
- Able to travel up to about 50% during construction phases
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐๐:
- Master's degree
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or Engineer in Training (EIT) certification
- Batch chemical processing experience
- AutoCAD Plant 3D
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๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐: $105,000 to $129,000, based on experience (they tipically offer the midpoint)
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐: 10% annual performance bonus target
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐๐: Medical, dental, and vision; 401(k) with company match; discounted stock purchase; paid time off (PTO) and holidays; paid parental leave; tuition reimbursement
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Support available for the right candidate, confirmed at offer
๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐น๐ฒ: Full-time, on-site, plus project travel
Interested? Apply via LinkedIn and we'll be in touch. Confidential search; your application is fully private.
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Worksite address
piscataway, NJ, 08854, US
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