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Senior Project Engineer
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Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), a Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) company, is looking to add a Senior Project Engineer to our growing team at Wilton.
The successful candidate will help KTS create long-term value for customers and society, pursue continuous innovation, and expand the business into new areas.
Koch Technology Solutions (KTS) is the world's leading licensor of a growing technology portfolio, focusing on the Polyester, Nylon and Polyurethane value chains. KTS has over 40 years of continuous licensing experience with a global team of technology and licensing experts. As a member of the Wilton PDP Execution team, you will work on development of our current technologies and help build our growing technology portfolio.
What You Will Do
• Manage the effective delivery of process design packages for large technically complex chemical and petrochemical projects.
• Run project progress meetings and continually providing schedule updates on status.
• Work with the Project Manager and Process Lead to ensure the creation and delivery of technically robust deliverables in line with project needs.
• Co-ordinate the input of multi-functional resources across a project (recognize when input from other disciplines is necessary to resolve an issue or will create value).
• Ensure the PDP Deliverable information has had the relevant reviews, is to the required quality and is delivered to programme manager in-line with the project programme.
• Ensure key stakeholders are engaged with the PDP documentation development and aligned with workflows and project programme.
• Ensure P&IDs and PFDs depict the relevant information required at each stage in the workflow, documents are reviewed and approved by the responsible engineers, workflows are adhered to.
• Continuously develop the project engineering systems to meet business expectations of innovation and waste elimination.
• Promote effective knowledge share and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to enhance the technology transfer process.
• Proactively drive the project forward, by openly identifying opportunities and gaps and working with the Project Manager and process technology team to resolve.
• Will travel 10% of the time and work internationally to support KTS’ customers.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Experience as a project engineer with an engineering firm or in a chemical process manufacturing plant environment.
• In depth knowledge of front-end engineering definition for large technically complex projects.
• Experience leading the effective creation of engineering deliverables.
• Experience creating valuable and beneficial relationships with 3rd parties (e.g., customers, suppliers).
• Willing and able to travel both domestic and international, expected to be about 10% of the time.
What Will Put You Ahead
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, prefer Chemical, Process, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• Several years of project engineering experience
• Track record of driving continuous improvement of project processes
• Proven capability to develop milestone and resource plans, to drive a team to deliver.
• Proven capability in interdisciplinary coordination.
• Experience supporting technology development and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team leader or as part of a team that respects others and values diversity.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
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Who We Are
Koch Technology Solutions (KTS) is the technology-licensing business of Koch Engineered Solutions (KES). KTS creates value for its customers across a growing range of technologies. These include leading technologies for making polyester and for making 1,4-Butanediol and its derivatives. We at KTS combine our exclusive technologies and skills with those of other companies in the KES group to optimise existing and new manufacturing plants for our customers.
The newest additions to our technology range include extracting lithium from brine (Direct Lithium Extraction) to support the growing need for energy storage, and advanced recycling of mixed waste PET bottles and containers into raw materials for high-quality food-grade applications thereby closing the recycling loop on plastics.
KTS in the UK is based at the Wilton Centre, a large science and business park ten minutes from Middlesbrough with an on-site restaurant, gym and landscaped grounds including a lake.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days vacation + 8 statutory
- BUPA medical cover
- Flexi-time; You can build up hours so that can have up to 12 days extra vacation in a year
- Contractual weekly hours are 38.75
- Defined contribution pension scheme with Fidelity International
- Gym subsidy
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