American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Pittsburgh, PA (USA) Section

Job Opportunities

2005 - 06

(Most recent openings are posted at top of this page)

Sr. Research Engineer

(WAY00593)

Cargill, Incorporated is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 124,000 employees in 59 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed.

This position will be in the Process Engineering team, based in Minneapolis, MN. The person in this position will be responsible for managing the process technology development activities for projects; advancing through Feasibility, Development, and Product Launch. This work will be done in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, in compliance with technology delivery guidelines.

Accountabilities

40%-Technology Delivery: Provide leadership of the technology development component on projects from lab-scale demonstration to commercial startup. Apply best practices in capital project execution with particular emphasis on innovative technology development and transfer. Provide technical support to business-case development, regulatory review, engineering design/construction, and plant startup activities of the integrated project team.

40%-Project Management: Assure proper execution of project tasks through planning, resource allocation, milestone definition and budget management. Ensure adequate resources are engaged to deliver technical success. Prepare detailed technical reports. Manage project tasks and cost recovery strategies.

10%-Safety and Environmental: Promote safety awareness and adherence to Cargill safety policies for laboratory, piloting, tolling, and commercial startup activities. Take a proactive role in developing safety initiatives, programs, and training for project staff and contractors. Work to understand and promote environmental awareness and adherence to all regulations and standards.

10%-Intellectual Property Management: Apply existing systems and best practices for capturing innovation and protecting intellectual property from process technology advances.

Required

Masters or Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering or a closely related field with 5-7 years experience in development of innovative process technology.
Strong understanding of fundamental Chemical Engineering principles (E.g. Material balances, Transport phenomena, Chemical kinetics).
Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Willingness to routinely travel 25% and intermittently at 50%.

Desired

Commercializing innovative process technologies experience.
Food/feed/fermentation technologies and manufacturing processes experience.
Experience in Plant Operations or Plant Engineering environment.
Formal training in project management skills.
Prior involvement in environmental, health, and/or safety initiatives.
Intellectual Property management experience and knowledge of issues around freedom to operate decisions.
Business case development and capital approval process experience.

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer

For further information, please contact:

Paul Renslow
Recruiting Consultant and Owner
RENCOR, INC.
651-457-6399 (W)
651-338-1010 (C)
612-435-4917 (E-Fax)
prenslow@rencorinc.com
www.rencorinc.com

Posted 01/16/0

Advanced Process Control Engineer

Education: Chemical or Electrical Engineering degree with control theory.

Experience: 5+ years of process engineering and process control experience.

Required Skills: Control Strategy development, PLC/HMI, Ladder Logic, OPC, DDE and VBA.

Additional Desired Skills: Static and dynamic process modeling, dynamic simulation, advanced control strategy development, model-predictive control implementation, commissioning and tuning, food process engineering and analysis. thermodynamics and heat transfer, transport mechanism. application of basic process design and analysis skills towards process control engineering.

Job description and responsibilities: AR provides high-level process design, analysis and optimization solutions to the manufacturing industry with a focus on utilizing advanced control designs to deliver desired business results. These business results include helping the manufacturer improve quality, productivity, throughput, efficiency while reducing costs, energy usage and wastage. The job responsibilities include conducting an audit of the manufacturing facility, analyzing the process design, procedures, operations and real-time data. As part of the data analysis, apply knowledge of basic heat transfer mechanisms, transport mechanisms, science, chemistry, physics, metallurgy etc. to define a sub solution space in order to identify the opportunities for improvement. Once an opportunity is identified, conduct a design of experiments to collect process data within the entire solution space, utilize basic engineering skills to identify a feasible sub solution space, create static and dynamic process models and design a custom advanced control solution that optimizes the process.

AR has a proprietary modeling, simulation and model-predictive control technology. Learning and applying this technology is a key part of the job description.

Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate would be a chemical engineer with extensive knowledge and experience in process controls. The candidate would have experience working in the plant either as an employee of manufacturer or as a provider of services. The candidate would have experience in data analysis, modeling and simulation. The candidate would have experience designing and implementing advanced control strategies using different control technologies such as PID, MPC, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic etc. The candidate would have strong technical writing skills and good inter-personal skills.

Employee must live in Pittsburgh metropolitan area - relocation expenses negotiable.

Should be able to travel 50% or more.

Salary: Commensurate with knowledge and experience.

Contact: support@adaptiveresources.com

Posted 12/19/05

Hazard Communication Specialist

COMPANY NAME: ChemADVISOR, Inc.

LOCATION: Pittsburgh, PA

POSITION TITLE: Hazard Communication Specialist

REPORTS TO: Vice President, EHS Services

POSITION FUNCTIONS

· Perform risk/exposure assessments, hazard evaluations and toxicological reviews. Prepare, revise and maintain Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) and labels in accordance with regulatory requirements and national standards as appropriate.

· Respond to technical requests and client inquiries.

· Prepare articles for the ChemADVISOR quarterly newsletter, ChemADVISORY, that relate to current scientific or regulatory topics.

· Represent ChemADVISOR at trade association, scientific meetings and professional society meetings such as SCHC and AIHCE.

· Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

BA/BS in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering required

Excellent communication, personal computer, and interpersonal skills required

3 to 5 years experience in regulatory compliance desirable

SAP EHS experience a plus

Fluency in foreign language desirable

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Darlene Susa-Anderson

412-847-2000

412-847-2010 (fax)

dsusa_Anderson@chemadvisor.com

www.chemadvisor.com

MAILING ADDRESS:

ChemADVISOR

811 Camp Horne Road, Suite 220

Pittsburgh, PA 15237

Posted 12/14/05

Last Updated 01/16/06 11:00 PM

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