What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Engineer position at DS Smith?
Process Engineer supports the operations in providing mill-wide process and technical support.
Key Responsibilities:
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- Supports and fosters safety and environmental compliance
- Possesses a personal dedication for safety, including proactive support of efforts to create a culture of safety excellence
- Fully support the mill safety programs.
- Provide technical support to all operations departments: paper machine, pulp mill, and power and recovery.
- Provide technical support for capital projects start-up and optimization.
- Perform process economic analyses for: capital projects, alternative processes, methods, additives, fuels, raw materials, etc.
- Develop mill wide and functional area material and energy balances.
- Backup to lab technician and Environmental Engineer.
- Perform routine reporting of daily production and environmental statistics.
- Work with outside interests including governmental regulators, consultants, and suppliers.
- Provides technical engineering support for process design, system optimization, quality control, commissioning & start-up, and troubleshooting of systems throughout the mill
- Evaluates chemical vendor’s proposals and coordinate chemical trials for improving paper manufacturing
- Perform routine process testing and communicate results to the operations and management team
- Performs periodic atmospheric testing of confined space tanks and areas of the mill predominantly during scheduled outages and field days
- Work with operations and maintenance team to identify and implement process modifications that lead to improved safety, quality, costs, and efficiency
- Periodic weekend lab/environmental coverage.
- Frequent walking, climbing ladders & stairs; crawling into confined spaces; measure/lift/carry objects of varying weights
- Exposure to dust, heat, dirt, grease, chemicals, noise, various weather conditions & other industrial environments
- Use of PPE & respiratory protection is required
- Able and willing to support the demands of a 24/7 operation
Qualifications, Education, Skills & Ability:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Pulp and Paper Science/Engineering
- Business management training or education a plus
- Preferably 2 to 5 years of experience in paper industry or related manufacturing
- Pulp and paper manufacturing environmental, health and safety knowledge
- A working knowledge of process flow of paper making
- Strong Oral & Written Communication skills
- Proficient skills in Microsoft Office suite especially in Excel and literate in mill DCS, mill wide information systems and process modelling
- Organizational & Interpersonal Skills
- Laboratory skills should include ability to perform titrations, gravimetric determinations, atomic absorption analysis, and other basic solid/liquid separations analyses
- Physical requirements include non-routine walking distances in mill operations including climbing flights of stairs and working in the elements
- Continue process improvement minded
- Expertise in analytics
- Presentation Skills – able to present to individuals and groups
- Able to work with a diverse group of people to resolve issues
- Microsoft Office products experience Word and Excel
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, participating in professional societies
