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We are looking for a Senior Process Engineer to (i) get our newly commissioned First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) TXS-1 gas fermentation plant in Houston, Texas, running smoothly at full nameplate capacity, (ii) assist with the design and construction of our next, much larger commercial plant, and (iii) own the commissioning and startup of this next commercial plant.
Job Responsibility:
Oversee production engineering for TXS-1, Again’s first commercial gas fermentation plant
Manage engineers and technicians
Optimize and debottleneck production processes, particularly gas fermentation and related upstream equipment including media preparation. Downstream processing steps will also require your attention
Ensure safe and smooth operation of all plant equipment
Oversee improvement projects and lead root cause analyses (RCA’s)
Requirements:
You have practical experience (>5 years) in production and process engineering in a plant setting
Hands on experience with industrial reactors- operation, optimization, debottlenecking, troubleshooting
BS in Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Enginering, or similar
You are collaborative, communicative and can work closely with both our scientific and process engineering teams. You can also collaborate with and help give clear direction to our Automation personnel
You lead by example and can operate independently. Although you will be managing other engineers, this is not a desk job - significant presence in the field is required.
Nice to have:
Strong competence within bioprocessing and a deep understanding of gas/liquid mass transfers, sanitary design, aseptic operations, and experience with gas fermentation is a plus
Experience with unit operations like media prep, tangential flow/cross flow filtration, ion exchange, centrifugation, liquid-liquid extraction, and distillation is a plus
Experience in plant commissioning, startups, and turn-arounds
Project management experience and people management experience are plusses
Mechanically-minded ("handy") process engineers will be favored. Maybe you know how to take apart a pump, maybe you can help troubleshoot a compressor etc.