Chemical Process Engineer

The Company

IGE Performance Chemicals is a chemical manufacturing and processing company located in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania. IGE Performance Chemicals has a chemical product R&D development team, which develops manufacturing processes in a lab for different specialty chemical products, starting with a pilot-scale manufacturing process and finishing with a medium-scale production setup. The manufacturing processes are first designed and then subsequently implemented on the production floor. For each product, the company designs and develops a modular production setup to produce a product on a “campaign” basis. The quantity that is produced in each campaign ranges from 100 lbs. to 100,000lbs. At the end of each production campaign, the modular production setup is removed, dismantled, and stored for future use.

The Position

IGE Performance Chemicals is looking for an experienced Chemical Process Engineer. The Chemical Process Engineer will be involved in the R&D stages of the synthesis of new products and then will spearhead the scale-up and design from the R&D process to pilot-production and then ultimately mass production. The Chemical Process Engineer will also work closely with customers to design and enhance customer infrastructure to implement new chemical manufacturing processes at customer facilities. Additionally, the Engineer will look to refine IGE’s internal chemical manufacturing processes and be responsible for implementing safety procedures and measures in the scale up process.

Responsibilities:

• Assemble and connect reactors, heating units, piping, and other infrastructure needed to perform chemical reactions.
• Lead in design setup and procurement of manufacturing equipment.
• Lead in the design of pilot scale production process.
• Conduct research for new products to be synthesized.
• Research and order precursors and raw material to be synthesized.
• Assist in laboratory testing of raw material and finished products.
• Work with the R&D team to create SOPs and safety procedures.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of Chemical Engineering experience required; Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in chemical engineering is required.
• Proficient in analytical chemistry techniques.
• Hands-on experience in building test units and prototypes.
• Familiarity with processing equipment such as reactors, filtration units, hydrogenation units, distillation units, dryers, etc.
• Experience with modeling chemical reactions and thermal systems using CFD simulation tools such as COMSOL is preferred.
• Experience with using CAD software such as Solidworks, Creo, CATIA, etc., is required.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.