Senior Process Engineer

Senior Process Engineer - Pharma
Chicago, IL

Your Role at BSI
Our Process Engineers are responsible for designing safe and economic methods for clients to convert raw feed to modified products. The typical process industries in which we perform work include specialty chemicals, renewable chemicals, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer products. We design manufacturing processes for efficiency, government regulations, and cost benefits.

Responsibilities and Scope

• Supervise site visits, walk downs, and site audits to gather field data on projects in pharmaceutical, food, beverage, and industries.
• Develop and provide discipline scope, deliverables, assumptions, and estimated budget for proposals.
• Supervise & create Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), and Mass & Energy Balances (M&EBs).
• Developing Process Design Basis reports, Process Descriptions, and government compliance reports (e.g. air & water emissions).
• Supervise & perform equipment sizing, prepare equipment specifications, prepare bid evaluations, review shop drawings, and maintain equipment lists.
• Supervise & perform process calculations using BSI Spreadsheets & commercial software (e.g. PIPE-FLO).
• Supervise & perform process simulations in Aspen or similar software.
• Supervise & prepare process safety studies, relief calculations, Code review studies, Electrical Area Classification (EAC) reviews & drawings, and participate in Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs).
• Supervise & develops plant layouts.
• Supervise & write process functional descriptions and operating procedures.
• Supervise, write, and perform factory acceptance tests (FATs) and site acceptance tests (SATs).
• Supervise & independently participate in construction support, startup, and commissioning efforts.
• Interface directly with clients, other design discipline counterparts, and project management.
• Adhere to discipline scope, schedules and costs including submission of change orders.
• Update forecast for all discipline staff on assigned projects.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and provide training sessions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• Strong with FDA regulations and GMP guidelines.
• Strong understanding of fundamentals in chemistry, fluid dynamics, heat and mass