Manager Scale Up/Process Engineering

We are chemical manufacturing company looking candidate for Manager Scale up, based at Mumbai.

Job Purpose:

Scale up team is a new entity established recently. Delivering the existing projects as well as future projects within the timeline with specified quality spec is prime importance. Strengthening the Scale up Team for future readiness is extremely critical. This job will support the R&D function in process development for new molecules and process enhancement for existing products with Projects engineering prospectus.

Role and Responsibilities

1) Generation of mass and energy balance data, PFD, P&ID, equipment specifications and other required data for input into the Technology Process document (TPD).

2) Mapping of developed process in existing plant assets and suggest required modifications in plant to achieve the goal of target production capacity and quality with required level of process and occupational safety along with environmental impact considerations.

3) Understand process safety and hazard data to arrive at an intrinsically safe process using required levels of controls as layer of protection.

4) Active participation in process HAZOP discussion, MOC and generation of technical document for project execution

5) Responsible for developing engineering data w.r.t agitator speed, Impeller selection, Impeller design validation, distillation patterns, heat of reactions etc., for the new technologies developed for good mass and heat transfer in the systems to achieve desired quality parameters.

6) Define, identify, and establish vendors for supplying equipment for kg scale in R & D and in scale up at plant.

7) Carry out equipment selection trials for continuous reactors systems, distillation, filtration, crystallization, drying etc. at Laboratory and kilo Level.

8) Review and update on engineering inputs for project progress on weekly basis along with chemistry teams to assure equipment requirements needed for corresponding scale up.

9) Detailing out instrument and equipment required in engineering lab with respect to process intensification and review the application to arrive at the cost viability.

10) Understand the analytical technique and interpretation of GC/ HPLC graphs.

Required Knowledge (of any equipment / Tools and techniques / Software)

• Thorough and practical knowledge of Process designing, engineering and technology of various chemistries developed in R & D.
• Detailed product costing based on norms in scale up batches which includes effluent disposal cost, utility cost, waste treatment cost, etc.
• Knowledge of conversion of batch mode processes into continuous modes wherever possible for new as well as existing products using CSTR, PFR especially for specific and hazardous chemistries such as Balz Schiemann, Diazotization, Hydrogenation, Nitration, Chlorination, Fluorination etc.
• Job experience of process design engineering of products, experience of working closely on various chemistries being developed in R & D during development stage.
• Exposure in procuring and handling instrumentations required in generating engineering data necessary for scale up using lab scale setup of both batch and continuous systems.
• Experience in understanding reactor design, WRT heat transfer and mass transfer. Implementation of scale down model of plant reactor in lab to predict the possible threats in scale up and precautions/ measures to run scale up in smooth manner.

Education & Experience

Education

Essential: B.E or B.Tech / M.E or M.Tech / Ph.D in Chemical engineering domain

Experience

Essential: 10-12 years with experience in scale-up projects

Preferred: 8-10 years of experience as Process engineer or Tech transfer engineer in Pilot plant

Competencies / Skills

Essential:

1) Complete knowledge and experience of technology transfer processes and scale up from lab to kilo lab to pilot plant and then to commercial plant.

2) Experience in basic process engineering documents preparation such as mass balance, energy balance, process flow diagrams (PFD), P&IDs.

3) Experience in preparation of scale-up reports with complete learning from scale-up campaign.

4) Experience in generation / calculation of engineering data for distillation, filtration, mixing, extraction etc.

5) Understanding of safety and hazard associated with the scale-up process.

6) Understanding of process safety reports and participation in safety elements such as HAZOP, HIRA, PSSR etc.

7) Should be a team player and team motivator and leader.

8) Understanding and implementation of PFDs, P&IDs and mass balance for the processes

9) Communication skill (written as well as spoken)

10) Planning, leadership, analytical, decision making, and people management skills.

11) Problem solving ability.

Preferred:

1) Must have worked on min 3 projects, scaling up from R&D to Pilot to/or commercial scale.

2) Experience in new product commissioning, experimentation and scale-up.

If your profile is suitable& you are interested, please share your cv on vishakha.jadhav@laxmi.com or call 91-22-4910444-ext.513