Specific Responsibilities:

• Review P&ID’s and Layouts for technical correctness and for operability;

• Develop process mass and energy balances when needed;

• Develop equipment process and capacity specifications for instrumentation and control elements and major equipment components;

• Assist in the preparation of Operations manuals including process sytem descriptions, review of operational & control descriptions;

• Gather and maintain plant operations information in order to establish a corporate data base that will be used to set up SPC programs, provide troubleshooting information, and continually improve the company’s product performance;

• Establish project technical requirements, including preparing and maintaining design basis

documents, document list, project distribution, technical evaluation protocol and formats, and project procedures;

• Responsible for implementation of the technical work according to project schedules and budgets.

• Prepare and maintain documentation that supports the information requirements of the Project

Manager and executive management of the Company. This will include engineering schedules,

engineering man-hour and cost budgets, estimate-to-complete, and estimate-at-completion reports;

• Preprartion of necessary technical and cost evaluations for project alternatives, including specific recommendations for approaches;

• Assist in developing equipment, plant, and engineering manhour estimates for capital projects;

• Participate in PHA related activities, including HAZOPs;

• Prepare and present training material;

• Participate in sytem start-up and commissioning;

• Provide technical support to operations. Troubleshoot operational problems;

• Participate in internal R&D projects;

Qualifications:

• A B.S. degree in chemical engineering (Preferred) or related field from an accredited, 4 year college;

• Minimum 3 years work experience as a process or production engineer in ethanol, distillation,

evaporation, and/or separation processes, or related field;

• Experience with PHA;

• Experience in reading and developing P&IDs;

• Excellent speaking, writing and organizational skills;

• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office suite or similar software;

• Chemical engineering simulation software experience with ASPEN, ChemCAD, or similar

commercial simulation tools a plus;