Pilot Plant Engineer
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Pilot Plant Engineer
Location: Memphis, TN
Language: English
Travel: <10%
Seniority Level: Associate
Language: English
Travel: <10%
Seniority Level: Associate
Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.
Position Summary
Position Summary
Provide leadership, engineering support, technical, and administrative direction for the research and development pilot plant facility so that new products and their manufacturing processes are developed in coordination with R&D and product management, trials are coordinated with field sales, and new products are scaled up and transitioned safely and efficiently to manufacturing. The role also includes researching and implementing opportunities for optimizing existing manufacturing processes
The role includes management of global Buckman product knowledge and product manufacturing standard operating procedures. Also ensures best practices are exchanged between global manufacturing sites.
Essential Job Functions
Effective Design of Experiment (DOE) and execution of test batch plan to establish the safety, quality, and operability boundaries of each new manufacturing process implementing the principles of Design for Six Sigma. Includes bench-scale experiments to evaluate options prior to advancing to pilot scale (reactors up to 700 gallons) with the goal of optimizing the number of pilot scale batches required to fully understand the boundaries of new manufacturing processes.
- Research and evaluate new manufacturing technologies for introduction to Buckman, this includes both Lab and Manufacturing sites globally, to include designing and overseeing trials using vendors’ pilot equipment
- Safety reviews to ensure chemical compatibility, validate equipment design, and ensure safe operations, to prevent incidents and ensure longevity
- Designing and conducting intermediate scale (25 to 700 gallon) chemical process test batches, collecting and analyzing process parameter data to ensure new manufacturing processes are fully understood (reaction kinetics, thermodynamic properties, material and energy balances, etc.)
- Creating chemical process manufacturing standard operating procedures within PDR and Process Safety Management boundaries and incorporating lessons learned at the pilot scale to ensure effective process scale-up to commercial batch quantities.
- Root cause analysis of moderately complex safety and quality near misses and incidents.
- Utilize applicable statistical and Lean Six Sigma techniques to ensure development of robust manufacturing processes
- Develop full automation for new processes (sequences, interlocks, alarms, graphics, control schemes, trends, tuning, etc.)
Essential Job Requirements
- BS in Chemical Engineering; and
- 7-9 Years of experience in chemical manufacturing or related field; or
- Chemistry degree and 10+ years of direct chemical manufacturing experience
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