What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemical Engineer position at Addison Group?
Job Title: Chemical Engineer
Oxford, MS based opportunity with competitive salary commensurate with education and experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manufacturing Support: Ensure the safety and optimal performance by troubleshooting issues and providing daily technical assistance to maintain high-quality operations.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical support, championing safety, quality, environmental, and reliability metrics.
- Process Innovation: Lead project management along with process improvement initiatives, including trials on raw materials, cost savings, yield, quality, and new product commercialization.
- Scale-up Excellence: Collaborate on growth projects, plan and execute development trials, collect data, and manage smooth transitions from pilot to full-scale production.
- Capital Expertise: Drive capital projects by collaborating with operations, planning, and scheduling teams. Develop project designs, communicate scopes, and train operations teams to ensure successful implementation.
- Develop and execute project scopes within a chemically inclined lab or plant environment.
- Work with equipment vendors and operations to aid in selection.
- Perform data and statistical analysis to make sound processing decisions.
- Provide relief coverage for supervision in production units.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, or related field required.
- At least 6 months of experience in a research facility, industrial environment, or manufacturing process development required. 1 years of experience preferred.
- Familiarity with and interest in problem-solving with industrial plant environments and equipment.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) required. Must be able to effectively communicate and interact with personnel throughout the organization.
- Ability and willingness to collect field data, enter process equipment for inspections, and otherwise perform routine field engineering work in an operating chemical facility environment.
- Collaboration: Ability to lead and work effectively in team projects.
- Ability to commute and work onsite daily.
