Process Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive continuous improvement by leveraging Process Intensification technologies including flow chemistry to reduce cost, reduce waste, improve yield.
• Assess and manage process risks arising from scale or process changes, provide technical support to Production for routine manufacturing activities.
• Performing capacity analysis, identifying bottlenecks and strategy for debottlenecking and capacity enhancement.
• Support Plant in Change controls (Equipment change, Process change, Scale up, etc.) and investigations of OOS/OOT.
• Study the process and recycling of solvents, performing experiments in PD Lab, generating data, proposing changes/modifications in recovery processes and establishing recovery process for new solvent streams for target improvement in the solvent recovery.
• Identifying new technologies and conducting feasibility studies for new technologies in alignment with Process requirement and scalable process.
• Co-ordinate with R&D for scale up, site transfer, process/technology improvement & troubleshooting for cost reduction projects.
• Responsible for utility load and capacity calculations, line sizing and design for optimized usage of utility systems and for achieving optimum capacity.
• Preparation of Capex Proposals (Concept notes, Savings/Payback calculations) for purchase of new Process Intensification technologies, co-ordination with cross functional teams for purchase, installation and commissioning related activities.
• Apply lean manufacturing techniques and simulation tools, mentoring and training to Process Engineering team across the API sites.
• Improve Process safety by training plant personnel and working on safety improvement projects.