What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Engineer - Senior position at Delan Associates, Inc?
Job Title: Process Senior Design Engineer
Location: Greenville, SC (In office-Onsite)
Job Description
The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge and leadership as described below. This position has oversight of a specific area and acts as a representative of the engineering discipline ensuring technical accuracy in project execution in all phases. This is a lead position on assigned projects performing engineering assignments of advanced complexity.
- Under general supervision of the Discipline Lead Engineer, serve as an Area Lead providing guidance/supervision to other engineers and designers
- Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding technical solutions to problems of advanced complexity in accordance with project requirements
- Develop and review specifications and design criteria
- Perform and check engineering analyses and calculations; specify materials, equipment and systems; and solve technical problems of advanced complexity
- Coordinate technical issues with other disciplines, project management, vendors and clients
- Execute work in compliance with Project Quality Plan and procedures
- Execute work in accordance with the approved project scope, cost and schedule baselines
- Develop and review estimates, schedules and progress reports including effort-hour estimating and staff forecasting
- Establish, control and report on material key quantities; provide analysis and forecasts
- Provide technical support to activities associated with equipment and material procurement and subcontracting including scopes of work, technical bid evaluations and review of vendor submittals
- Provide technical support to activities associated with construction administration including response to construction requests-for-information and field changes
- Other duties as assigned
Basic Job Requirements
U.S. Citizenship required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Nuclear Engineering and minimum ten (10) years of work-related experience (Chemical Engineering Degree Preferred)
- Working knowledge of applicable federal (including Department of Energy orders), state , and local codes and standards
- Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to project management, coworkers, clients, vendors, and subcontractors
- Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job
- Advanced knowledge of discipline codes and standards
- Intermediate computer and software skills to include proficiency in the use of word processing, e-mail, spreadsheet and electronic presentation programs
- Significant experience providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on large industrial projects
- Proficiency executing large EPC projects utilizing engineering analysis, 3D modeling and 2D computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) automation tools in a multi-discipline environment
Discipline Specific Job Requirements - Prepare and review calculations and specifications relating to Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) development
- Demonstrated design experience in areas such as utility and/or process systems and specification
- Intermediate knowledge in development of the following:
- Process design criteria; process calculations; process simulation
- Hazops/Process Hazards Analysis
- Heat and material balances; utility summaries/balances
- Block flow diagrams; process flow diagrams - Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) - Equipment list
- Equipment process datasheets
- Control systems datasheets
- Functional logic narratives
- Piping design data/line list; tie-in data
- Hazardous area classification
- Power requirement - electrical load list
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional Engineer license
- Experience with design of systems, structures and components for nuclear facilities under the requirements of ASME NQA-1
- Advanced knowledge of commercial availability and cost of materials
- Demonstrated experience managing and leading large projects
- Proficiency with project set-up, development of control-level schedules, progress reporting and project close-out
- Practical field experience
- EPC project experience for the following industries:
- U.S Department of Energy or other U.S. Federal Government Agency
- Nuclear facilities under a nuclear quality assurance program
- Manufacturing, pharmaceutical or biotechnology - Proficiency in reading and working with P&IDs
