Senior Process Engineer
Permanent, full-time | Hanger Lane, London
About the opportunity
Our client is looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior Process Engineer to join their product development team, who will focus on bringing their proprietary reactor design and associated balance of plant through increasing scales, from demonstrator to pilot to commercial size.
You will also support the Technology team who focus on electrolytic testing at larger and larger scales within their test environments and partner sites. By working within the technical team and with the company's partners and subcontractors, the process engineer will pioneer the equipment configuration for safe electrolysis under supercritical water conditions.
Responsibilities
- Execute and lead process engineering design activities in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Collaborate with subcontractors and vendors to enable the goals of reaching a demonstrator scale plant by 2024, and a pilot by 2026.
- Flowsheet development (PFDs), detailed calculations and mass and energy balance ownership.
- Process control and system design (P&IDs).
- Calculation development for design and sizing of equipment and instrumentation.
- Creating equipment and instrument specifications, and supporting the procurement process.
- Hazard identification and risk management.
- Own the technical delivery of engineering projects, reviewing engineering contractor design deliverables and responding to technical queries.
- Work with the technology team, to support lab-scale testing and scale-up, working to minimise hazard and risk.
- Contribute to writing bids: both grant application and customer proposals.
- Customer-facing project development and negotiations for product integration.
- Partner and vendor liaison and negotiation.
Qualifications
Have a master's degree or above in Chemical / Process Engineering. Hold a senior or equivalent status as a process engineer in a relevant industry.
Required Skills
- Have demonstrated significant experience of working with high pressure/high-temperature systems and flammable gases.
- Be adept in process engineering design from first principles.
- Have demonstrable professional experience throughout the project development lifecycle, from feasibility and conceptual work, through FEED and EPC to delivery and operations.
- Be a proficient user of process modelling software such as Aspen, HYSYS, PRO II or Unisim.
- Worth within our team to collectively ask “How can we do this safely?”, and contribute to an empowering culture around safety in our team.
- Thrive in a startup environment as a self-starter and proactively identify problems and pursue solutions.
- Have strong communication and organisational skills, attention to detail and enjoy working in a team environment.
- Be committed to inherent safe design and to the minimisation of risk.
Preferred Skills
- Electrochemical experience: electrolysis or fuel cells.
- Design experience in hydrogen and oxygen.
- Design experience in supercritical water.
- Thermal design using HTRI.
- Experience in scaling up designs.
- Chartered engineer status.
- CFD/modelling experience.
