Summary:
Reporting to the Program Manager, Field Deployments, the Process Engineering Team Lead will coordinate with various departments to lead process engineering and modelling activities. This is a supervisory role, overseeing and leading a small team of process engineers.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with field deployments, marketing, business development, product development, and R&D for process engineering and modelling requests.
- Prioritize, assign delegate, and supervise the process engineering group to complete the work requests from internal and external clients.
- Work with the team to assemble, build, commission and operate a pre-commercial plant producing hydrogen using a novel methane pyrolysis process.
- Work with the team for process development of full scale commercial hydrogen facilities.
- Lead process engineering and modelling activities at Ekona
- Ensure that the pre-commercial plant meets specific design criteria, is built to specification, and operates at or above process KPI's. Integrate process findings from the PMP test system into the pilot plant design.
- Provide guidance to build upon Ekona's existing PMP Aspen Model.
- Lead process modelling studies and consider process configuration options.
- Update and generate PFD's and P&ID's.
- Facilitate process hazard analyses, and process selection studies.
- Calculate sizing of pressure safety devices.
- Select or develop design standards to guide the team.
- As part of a team, help develop novel new reactor and system concepts from the ground up for current and future generation product offerings.
- Supervise and provide guidance and training to all direct reports
- Complete performance reviews, conduct regular 1:1 check-ins, review and approve timesheets and time off requests by direct reports
- Develop operations plans and enforce safe work practices.
- Other relevant duties
You Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering; Master's degree is an asset
- 10+ years of industrial expertise
- 3+ years experience leading a team, an asset
- Strong background in mass and energy balances - PFDs, and P&IDs
- Proficiency with HYSYS, Aspen Plus and other related process simulation software
- Proficiency with process engineering codes and standards such as API 520, 521, 2000, etc.
- Experience participating in HAZOPs and sizing of pressure safety devices.
- Previous experience with pilot plant and/or industrial-scale commissioning and start-up is an asset.
- Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal; ability to present results and actionable priorities in front of a group of peers and write reports.
- Detail oriented mindset.
- Previous industrial chemical process scale-up and commercialization expertise.
- Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Professional Engineering designation or working towards obtaining it.
- Leadership abilities to coach and mentor more junior process engineers
We Offer:
Purposeful work - we are developing breakthrough technology that transforms the way we produce clean hydrogen to combat climate change.
In addition, you will benefit from:
- Bonus and equity options
- Extended health and dental plan + health and wellness spending account starting on day 1
- Personal development allowance
- Staff social functions
- Free snacks
- Free parking
- Great team to work with
We are a fun group of mainly engineers and operations staff. We are collaborative, humble, and hard working.
- Into coffee? We have a pretentious coffee club
- Enjoy cycling? We have a club for that too
- Running? Burnaby lake park is right behind the office
- Competitive? Challenge a co-worker to a game of foosball
Be a part of our breakthrough environmental solution and apply today.
*This role is based out of our Burnaby, BC office and has the ability to be hybrid- a mix of working from home and a minimum of two days in office.
The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, internal equity, and relevant training or education, business and organizational needs.