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Process Engineer - Wilmington, NC | An active Q-Clearance Required or Eligible!
We are seeking a Process Engineer to support the design, development, testing, and commissioning of advanced process systems for next-generation enrichment technology.
Reporting to the Mechanical Engineering Manager, this position plays a key role in translating process requirements, performance objectives, and scientific concepts into practical engineering solutions for first-of-a-kind equipment.
The Process Engineer will support separator and cascade systems, UF? feed/product/tails systems, gas handling equipment, enrichment performance, and Test Loop operations.
The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in chemical or process engineering, hands-on technical problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate with mechanical design, systems engineering, testing teams, and process scientists to develop and optimize complex process systems.
Q-Clearance Required or Eligible
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Support development of process requirements, operating envelopes, and process design inputs for enrichment-related systems.
- Prepare and review mass balances, energy balances, P&IDs, process flow diagrams, system descriptions, and design basis inputs.
- Complete calculations and analyses to support component sizing for pumps, compressors, valves, flow meters, pressure relief devices, piping, and other components typically found within a chemical processing facility.
- Help define normal operating conditions, off-normal conditions, process limits, and key performance parameters.
- Build and model process simulations using platforms such as ChemCAD, Comsol, Microsoft Excel, and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Work with mechanical design and systems engineering to ensure process requirements are incorporated into equipment and system designs.
- Provide process engineering input to design reviews, hazard reviews, readiness reviews, and configuration-controlled documentation.
- Support development of test plans, test objectives, acceptance criteria, commissioning plans, and system readiness documentation.
- Analyze test data to evaluate enrichment performance, system behavior, process stability, and operating limits.
- Use test results to recommend updates to process requirements, operating parameters, system designs, or future test plans.
- Support Test Loop operations during planning, startup, testing, troubleshooting, and commissioning.
- Assist with identification of instrumentation needs, control points, alarm limits, and data collection requirements.
- Provide process engineering input to hazard analyses, safety basis development, and licensing-related documentation.
- Document technical findings, assumptions, conclusions, and recommendations clearly and consistently.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with chemical process systems, gas handling systems, vacuum systems, or similar industrial process equipment.
- Experience supporting process requirements, mass/energy balances, P&IDs, operating envelopes, or process system documentation.
- Experience supporting test planning, commissioning, troubleshooting, startup, or operation of complex process systems.
- Strong technical problem-solving skills and ability to connect process behavior with equipment design and operating performance.
- Ability to work effectively with mechanical design, systems engineering, test engineering, operations, and process science teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering or related scientific discipline
- Experience with UF?, uranium processing, nuclear fuel cycle systems, or other hazardous chemical process systems.
- Experience with enrichment, isotope separation, cascade systems, or related process technologies.
- Experience supporting R&D test systems, pilot plants, prototype equipment, or technology maturation programs.
- Familiarity with regulated environments, safety basis documentation, licensing support, or process hazard analysis.
- Experience with instrumentation, data analysis, controls interfaces, and process performance evaluation.
- Experience working with first-of-a-kind equipment in an iterative design, test, and commissioning environment.
Employment Pre-requisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: Successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant’s experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
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Estimated Min Rate: $91000.00
Estimated Max Rate: $130000.00
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