Chemical Process Engineer

We are seeking experienced engineering, maintenance, and reliability professionals to support complex food ingredient, agricultural processing, ethanol, and continuous-process manufacturing operations in the Boardman, Oregon area.

This opportunity may align particularly well with Process Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Plant Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Maintenance Supervisors, and other technically strong plant professionals who have experience improving equipment reliability, troubleshooting production issues, optimizing manufacturing processes, and supporting safe, efficient plant operations.

The strongest candidates will bring hands-on experience working inside an operating manufacturing or processing facility and understand the intersection between process performance, equipment reliability, preventive maintenance, production uptime, and continuous improvement.

Relevant experience may include:

• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Reliability improvement and downtime reduction
• Mechanical troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Process troubleshooting and optimization
• Continuous-process manufacturing
• Unit operations
• Equipment sizing and specification
• Pumps, piping, valves, tanks, and pressure systems
• Motors, gearboxes, bearings, conveyors, and rotating equipment
• Heat exchangers and heat-transfer systems
• Evaporation, separation, drying, or distillation
• Fermentation and biological processes
• Steam and boiler systems
• Compressed air, water, wastewater, and plant utilities
• Process controls and instrumentation
• PFDs and P&IDs
• Equipment inspections and condition monitoring
• Preventive-maintenance program development
• Predictive-maintenance technologies
• CMMS and maintenance planning
• Root cause failure analysis
• Capital equipment installation and plant improvements
• Start-up and commissioning
• Continuous improvement and operational excellence

Process & Manufacturing Engineering

Engineering professionals may be responsible for analyzing plant performance, troubleshooting process and equipment problems, identifying bottlenecks, improving throughput and yield, reducing energy or operating costs, and supporting production and maintenance teams with practical engineering solutions.

Relevant experience may include material and energy balances, equipment calculations, PFDs and P&IDs, process controls, instrumentation, plant trials, process optimization, Management of Change, process safety, capital improvements, and equipment commissioning.

Maintenance & Reliability

Maintenance and reliability professionals may focus on improving equipment availability and reducing unplanned downtime through preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment troubleshooting, reliability analysis, maintenance planning, and continuous improvement.

Relevant experience may include rotating equipment, pumps, motors, gearboxes, conveyors, bearings, hydraulics, pneumatics, steam systems, boilers, utilities, instrumentation, automated processing equipment, CMMS systems, predictive-maintenance technologies, and root cause failure analysis.

Leadership experience managing mechanics, technicians, electricians, contractors, or multidisciplinary maintenance teams is particularly valuable for supervisory and management opportunities.

Candidates may come from a variety of industrial environments, including:

Ethanol | Grain Processing | Food Ingredients | Agricultural Processing | Food & Beverage Manufacturing | Fermentation | Distillation | Renewable Fuels | Chemical Manufacturing | Industrial Gases | Dairy Processing | Potato Processing | Milling | Feed Manufacturing | Brewing & Distilling | Pulp & Paper | Refining | Packaging | Industrial Manufacturing | Continuous-Process Manufacturing

Candidates do not need to come from an identical manufacturing process. Experience with comparable equipment, utilities, production systems, maintenance programs, or continuous-process operations may translate very well.

We are particularly interested in professionals who:

• Have worked hands-on inside an operating manufacturing or processing facility.
• Understand both equipment performance and production requirements.
• Can troubleshoot mechanical or process problems and identify root causes.
• Have experience improving equipment reliability, uptime, throughput, or efficiency.
• Are comfortable partnering closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, vendors, and contractors.
• Understand preventive and predictive maintenance principles.
• Can work effectively around active industrial equipment and production processes.
• Bring a practical, continuous-improvement mindset.

Depending on the position, relevant education may include Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Technology, or another related technical discipline. Equivalent plant, skilled-trades, military, apprenticeship, or industrial experience may also be highly relevant.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.