Process Engineer

Purpose of the Job

Design, optimize, monitor, and improve manufacturing processes to ensure safe, efficient, costeffective, and quality production operations.

Key Performance Areas:

• Monitor and analyse process performance and identify opportunities to improve yield,throughput, efficiency and product quality.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to improve productivity, reduce costs, minimise wasteand support operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot plant, process, product quality and process safety issues, lead investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Track and improve OEE performance across manufacturing assets.
• Lead Process Safety Management (PSM) activities, including HAZOPs, PHAs, MOCs,
• PSSRs, risk assessments and process safety action management.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety and quality standards.
• Participate in plant start-ups, shutdowns, commissioning, optimisation of new equipment and process modifications.
• Collaborate with the maintenance team to improve equipment performance, analyse recurring failures and develop preventive maintenance strategies.
• Lead or support capital projects and plant modifications, including management of schedules, costs and technical deliverables.
• Prepare and maintain process designs, mass balances, PFDs, P&IDs, SOPs, process parameters and engineering documentation.
• Conduct technical evaluations of equipment, technologies and process improvements.
• Prepare technical reports and process performance reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide technical guidance and support to operations.
• Support strategic business initiatives and continuous improvement programmes.

  Experience and Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent engineering qualification.
• Minimum 5-7 years' experience in a chemical manufacturing or process plant environment.

Knowledge Requirements

• Chemical manufacturing and batch processing operations.
• Process control principles and instrumentation.
• Heat transfer, fluid flow, and mass balance calculations.
• Process safety management (PSM), HAZOP, Risk Assessments, and MOC processes.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies.
• Quality systems and statistical process control (SPC).
• Environmental, health, and safety regulations applicable to chemical manufacturing.
• SAP systems
• Continuous Improvement principles.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Problem-solving
• Analytical thinking.
• Project management.
• Technical report writing.
• Communication and teamwork.
• Continuous improvement mindset