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Job Title:

Process & Applications Engineer

Department:

Engineering

Reports to:

Engineering Manager

Direct Reports:

None

Pay Grade:

ProcEng

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Position Summary:

The Process & Applications Engineer plays a critical, hands-on role in the daily operation, improvement, and growth of Tedia’s high-purity solution manufacturing processes. This position is responsible for monitoring and optimizing batch and continuous operations, identifying opportunities for increased efficiency, supporting quality and safety initiatives, and partnering with Process Development Manager for new product development and scale-up. The engineer will act as a key interface between production, quality, maintenance, and technical teams to ensure operational excellence.

Essential Duties:

• Champion Tedia’s Safety Culture by applying Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Program (RMP), and other hazard reduction best practices across all operations.
• Support Tedia’s Quality Culture by adhering to documented procedures, specifications, and continuous improvement practices.
• Monitor daily plant operations, identify process deviations, and lead troubleshooting efforts to ensure on-spec product and minimize downtime.
• Analyze, optimize, and document chemical purification processes, including distillation, solvent recovery, and material handling.
• Collaborate with automation/controls teams to interpret and enhance performance of DCS/PLC systems (Rockwell).
• Lead initiatives to remove process bottlenecks and increase throughput and capacity.
• Quantify and report cost savings or efficiency improvements driven by process enhancements.
• Partner with Process Development Manager to scale up new products and technologies from bench to production, ensuring smooth technology transfer.
• Utilize analytical instrumentation and methods to assess raw materials, in-process samples, and finished goods.
• Maintain a strong floor presence (40–50% of time) to ensure real-time problem-solving and team engagement.
• Assist in resolving non-conformances, completing CAPAs, and supporting deviation investigations.
• Collaborate across departments including maintenance, QC, operations, and logistics to align goals and resolve issues.
• Engage directly with customers as needed on product development or technical troubleshooting.
• Support and as needed, deputize for the Production Manager on key initiatives

Success Criteria:

• Maintain a 40–50% presence on the production floor to ensure real-time support, process awareness, and operator engagement.
• Utilize historian data and process trends to detect and correct sources of process drift
• Build or refine process documentation (SOPs, trend groups, batch data sheets) to improve operator self-sufficiency and reduce reliance on engineering intervention
• Participate in the development and delivery of operator training modules, ensuring process understanding and skill consistency across shifts.
• Maintain expertise on production processes, equipment, design, engineering and automation to facilitate 100% on-time completion of Production Coordinating group training plans.
• Develop and document continuous improvement of efficiency for chemical filling and chemical purification processes to achieve annual cost improvements > $50,000.
• In partnership with Process Development Manager, assist in identification and scale-up of new products/processes

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position does not have supervisory responsibility.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or other related field
• 3+ Years as a production or process engineer
• Strong mechanical aptitude, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning abilities and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are essential

Preferred Education and Experience:

N/A

Key Competencies:

• Accountability
• Ethics and Integrity
• Adaptability / Flexibility
• Continual / Process Improvement
• Analytical Thinking
• Continual Learning
• Digital Fluency 
• Innovative Mindset
• Communication
• Interpersonal Skills
• Resilience
• Teamwork
• Results Driven
• Thoroughness

Work Environment /Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Stooping, bending, twisting, and climbing ladders and/or stairs.
• Must be able to wear a respirator.
• Must be mechanically inclined.