Process Engineer (Safety Process, or Chemical Process Engineering)

Location – Suffolk

Sector – Flavour / Chemical

Contract – Full time and permanent – Onsite 5 days a week

Salary – £35,000 – £40,000 depending on experience

Our client is a specialist flavours and fragrance company that focus on the development, scale up and in-house manufacture and supply of flavour and fragrance ingredients. Based in Suffolk, they are an innovative company who are now looking for an early-careers Process Engineer to join their Process and Safety Engineering Team on a full-time and permanent basis.

They boast a relatively newly, purpose-built facility and a wide range of Process Engineering projects to be involved in, joining a small (but growing) team of engineers.

This would be a suitable role for a Process Engineer, Chemical Engineer, or Safety Engineer with existing experience in industry who is looking to become a charted engineer (IChemE). Ideally, the ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of industry experience post-graduation, but we welcome applications from those with industrial placement years too.

The Role

This is a very varied role for individuals who have existing industry experience as a Process, Chemical or Safety Engineer within the chemical, pharmaceutical, or related industry. As a Process Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Rotating between a variety of Chemical Process Engineering projects across technical, safety, process improvement, process control.
• Contribute and take an important role in Process Safety studies and implementations (HAZID, HAZOP, Layer of Protection Analysis LOPA, Safety Integrity Level (SIL)).
• Ensure modifications of the manufacturing plant follow Management of Change – MOC procedures.
• Working on projects to maintain the COMAH upper tier site status.
• Working on continuous improvement and process optimisation projects (the site was new in the last 5 years, so there are now lots of projects to tackle in continuous improvement).
• Investigating problems and deviations on the distillation and production plant. Come up with and implement process engineering solutions.
• Conduct mass energy balances and process calculations.
• Create process documentation including P&IDs and process flow diagrams (PFDs)

Skills and Experience Needed

Suitable Applicants will have:

• A BSc or MSc degree within Chemical Engineering (essential, equivalent experience welcome too)
• 2-3 years of post-graduate experience within Chemical Engineering / Safety Process Engineering within a chemistry based industry (essential – happy to consider those with 1 year industry experience too, potentially gained during an industrial placement year during studies)
• You’ll have experience in some process safety studies including HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, PHR (essential)
• IOSH or NEBOSH general certification (desired)
• Experience in process control system improvements (desired)
• A desire to learn, the ability to go into projects with a problem solving mindset, desire to work towards chartership (essential)
• Must have indefinite right to work in the UK without need for visa sponsorship now, or the future (essential)

The Package

As an industry leader, our client is offering the chance to be part of a growing organisation on a permanent basis with a competitive salary and benefits package. They are able to offer support throughout your career and are willing to help you work towards chartered engineer status.