Process Engineer

The role

You will carry metal recovery projects from flowsheet to drawings. You will turn metallurgical results into process designs and engineering packages to run pilots or plants.

What you will do

• Developing and maintaining the flowsheet model including mass and energy balances, water balance, reagent consumption, and techno-economic models
• Authoring PFDs, P&IDs, equipment lists, and process datasheets
• Sizing and specifying unit operations
• Designing, building, and running pilot campaigns with the metallurgy team
• Turning pilot data into scale-up parameters
• Supporting FEED and detailed engineering with EPCM partners
• Reviewing vendor packages and answering process questions
• Supporting commissioning and start-up through nameplate
• Writing the operating procedures the plant runs on

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in chemical or metallurgical engineering
• 3 to 7 years of process engineering in hydrometallurgy, chemicals, or minerals processing
• Modeler skilled in flowsheet mass balances and techno-economics using METSIM, SysCAD, Aspen, or a well-built spreadsheet
• Has authored PFDs, P&IDs, and equipment specifications for a plant that was built, or is willing to learn by doing so here
• Comfortable in the laboratory and on the plant floor
• Communicator who writes a design basis an EPCM can build from and a stage-gate memo a CEO can decide on
• Must be willing to relocate to Chattanooga, TN
• Available to travel to customer and partner sites across the United States, Canada, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia

Benefits

• Relocation support will be provided

Before you apply

• Kunin will do whatever it can to secure work authorization for the right candidate

About the company

Kunin Technologies is implementing advanced separation systems to capture value from overlooked resources in the critical mineral supply chain. The team includes process engineers, polymer scientists, and organic chemists with a 10k sq. ft. lab in Chattanooga, TN.