** Pilot Operations Process Engineer**

**Job Category****:** Research & Development **Requisition Number****:** PILOT001366 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**General Summary** Gas Technology Institute (GTI), a leading research and development organization serving energy markets, is seeking an Engineer to support pilot and demonstration scale plants utilizing aerospace technologies. As part of our Energy Supply and Conversion, Pilot Operations team you will support the application and development of advanced conversion technologies, including identification of opportunities, through design, construction and operation of pilot and demonstration scale plants. The immediate need for this position is to support design, construction, and operation of pilot scale experiments in the Des Plaines office.

GTI offers generous benefits, competitive salaries, career advancement, and the opportunity to work in a professional R&D environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are proud of what we do because our work matters. GTI is working toward solving global energy challenges in transitioning to a low-carbon economy. We have a proven track record in producing innovative ideas and commercializing solutions to deliver clean and reliable energy. At GTI, we deliver innovative technology solutions for safe, efficient, and responsible energy.

**Primary Responsibilities**

* Works as a project engineer under close supervision.

* Assignments typically are routine and designed to develop professional work, knowledge and abilities

* Strong communication skills and knowledge of safety rules and regulations

* Close interaction and working relationship with Technician staff

* Other duties as assigned

**Travel Requirements**

* The position will require travel including but not limited to Alabama, Wyoming, Canada, and China

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics**

* Familiarity with gasification, methane reforming, electrical power generation, membrane separations processes

* Ability to create Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)

* Familiarity with ASME standards for boiler, pressure vessel and piping design

* Familiarity with chemical process analysis tools (preferably ASPEN PLUS)

* Ability to generate Equipment Specifications and Instrument Data Sheets.

* Ability to develop control system truth tables/logic diagrams

* Ability to generate operating procedures

* Familiarity with HAZOP review methodology and other plant safety assessments

* Technical ability to interpret test results and incorporate them into analysis methodologies

* Ability to communicate well both orally and in writing, and work effectively as a team/project member

**Education and Experience**

* B.S. degree with 7 years of relevant work experience or M.S./Ph.D with 5 years of experience

**Additional Information** The health and safety of our employees is a top priority for GTI. To comply with Presidential Executive Order 14042 (EO14042) on , we are requiring that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. You will be required to provide proof that you are fully vaccinated on your first day of employment. If you need an accommodation based upon a disability or sincerely held religious belief, we have a process to consider such requests and you may initiate that process by contacting Human Resources.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)