Process Engineer presso Tedia

Position Summary:

The Process Engineer plays a key, hands-on role in the daily operation, optimization, and growth of Tedia’s high-purity solvent manufacturing processes. This position bridges production, quality, maintenance, and R&D. They drive operational excellence through process improvement, troubleshooting, and technology scale-up. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in chemical processing with a practical understanding of plant operations.

Essential Duties:

Safety & Quality

• Champion Tedia’s Safety Culture by applying Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Program (RMP), and other hazard-reduction best practices.
• Support Tedia’s Quality Culture by following all documented procedures, specifications, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Process Operations and Optimization

• Monitor daily batch and continuous distillation and solvent purification operations to ensure consistent, on-spec production.
• Lead troubleshooting of process upsets or deviations to minimize downtime and product loss.
• Analyze and optimize purification steps such as forerun/tail control, reflux ratio, and column performance to improve yield and throughput.
• Identify and implement projects that remove bottlenecks, improve energy efficiency, or increase capacity.

Technical and Analytical Support

• Develop and maintain clear process documentation, SOPs, batch records, P&IDs, and trend groups
• Work with QC and Analytical teams to interpret GC and purity data, correlating results to process variables and operating conditions
• Collaborate with R&D to scale new products and purification technologies from lab to production, ensuring smooth technology transfer.

Capital Projects

• Manage small-to-medium capital projects from concept through commissioning, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-spec execution
• Identify, scope, and justify capital improvements to support safety, quality, reliability, and capacity goals.
• Support the Production Manager and Engineering team in long-range capital planning aligned with plant growth objectives.

Success Criteria:

• Complete process improvement projects delivering annualized savings through efficiency, yield, or utility reduction
• Successfully lead small-to-medium capital projects (typically <$250K) from concept through commissioning, meeting cost, schedule, and performance targets.
• Maintain updated and accurate P&IDs, SOPs, and safety-critical documents

Supervisory Responsibility:

• This position does not have supervisory responsibility.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering
• 3+ Years in an engineering role
• 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.