# Principal Engineer I - Process Engineering

Where You Will Work Located in Downtown Vancouver’s central business district, this area is a dense, high-end urban neighborhood dominated by major office towers, financial institutions, and professional services. Employees in Vancouver mostly follow a hybrid schedule where they are required to work within EPCM/design house environments, working closely alongside engineering and project delivery teams, attend in-person meetings or training and may also collaborate virtually. It offers a fast-paced, corporate environment with strong transit access and a mix of nearby dining, retail, and residential amenities. What You Will Do As a technical leader, this role focuses on growth projects and strategic initiatives, providing process engineering expertise, engineering leadership, and high-level guidance throughout the project development cycle while collaborating across the organization to deliver sound engineering judgment and strategic insight. Review, verify, and approve engineering documents including PFDs, P&IDs, design criteria, mass/energy balances, equipment specifications, and metallurgical test work scopes Ensure engineering deliverables conform to internal standards, project r

- **Id**: 4238367
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/freeport-mcmoran-inc-principal-engineer-i-process-engineering-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T07:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T21:42:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 14
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4630
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Chemical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, LLM & Generative AI, Mining

## Company

- **Id**: 1843274
- **Name**: Freeport-McMoRan
- **Domain**: fcx.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fcx-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 14

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T11:48:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:18, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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