What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Development Engineer position at Albemarle Corporation?
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Job Description
Location: Kings Mountain, NC, USA (Near Charlotte, NC)
Position Title: Process Development Engineer
Job Profile: R&T Engineer II-III-IV-V
Grade: 16-17-18-19 (Experience dependent)
Supervisor Process Development Manager, Energy Storage GBU
Edit/Revision Date: April 2023
Background
Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is a leading global producer of lithium, bromine and catalyst solutions.
Are you inspired by "what's next"? So are we. When you join the Albemarle team, you contribute to a better tomorrow. You will play a role in powering many of the world's largest and most critical industries, from energy and communications to transportation and electronics. We are putting innovation to work to improve people's lives and we want YOU to be a part of it.
As the world's largest lithium producer, our products enable the rapid growth in lithium batteries that power everything from pacemakers, to cell phones, to electric vehicles. Our unique lithium natural resource position, global derivatization capabilities and technology leadership allow Albemarle to execute an aggressive growth strategy for this business. Join us to help drive new technologies and materials to scale and accelerate the electrification revolution.
Join a growing global Process Development team to accelerate Albemarle's Energy Storage GBU growth plans for new Lithium materials, resources and processes through rapid development and scaleup, using flexible resources & facilities, both internally and externally.
The team links research and commercialization, developing the manufacturing processes at an intermediate scale to enable commercialization of new materials, new resources and major process improvements. The group's portfolio comes from significant interaction with multiple stakeholders, including strategic business planning, R&D, hydrogeology, process technology, quality, manufacturing and project engineering.
Position Summary
This growing group needs Process Development Engineers, to execute our process development, scale-up and commercialization activities. The group's portfolio will be dynamic and complex, adjusting to priorities and schedule urgency, and requires the ability to identify and answer the critical questions that will drive decisions and generate reliable process information for the commercial design. Process Development Engineers are responsible for defining and executing the technical work required to progress projects through the Albemarle stage-gate process. They provide technical leadership on the process technology aspects of projects and own the technical work to successfully develop and scale-up new product and manufacturing process technologies. They work within cross-functional teams and collaborate with peers in upstream Research & Development and downstream Process Technology & Manufacturing functions.
Individual candidate experience and career development path will factor into specifics for roles, responsibilities and salary levels. Technical activities could require working with unit operations such as: high temperature kilns, specialized filtration, crystallizers, centrifuges, dryers, ion exchange, metal deposition, powder synthesis and handling, fluidized bed reactors, inorganic and organic reactions, morphology control, inert atmospheric handling, metal extrusion and cold rolling, electro-chemistry, etc.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
Exceptional safety leadership and experience with process safety management, putting Safety and Care for employees first.
The ability to define and execute technical Process Development activities in a cross functional team.
Results-driven, outcome-focused, action-oriented approach with a collaborative operating style that fosters high expectations and motivated teamwork.
Strong data-based decision making, mental model thinking, problem solving, prioritization, and risk mitigation skills.
Strategic agility and ability to create or adjust to alternate plans to achieve targets in a dynamic environment.
Qualifications/Education
Experience with process development, scaleup & tech transfer, chemical pilot plant design & operation, technical leadership and utilizing external technology providers.
Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical or Metallurgical Engineering, Chemistry or other applicable technical discipline. Advanced degrees are also encouraged.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong internal customer focus, including the creation of technical presentations and updates, technical reports and technology transfer packages.
Experience in successfully executing process research, development and scale-up activities in a cross-functional matrix setting.
Possible Role Specializations
Technical project execution and leadership with mixed internal/external, cross-functional teams.
Pyro and hydro metallurgical and chemical pilot plant design, scaleup and operation.
Electro-chemistry processing.
Process and economic evaluation for multiple options based on conceptual packages.
High temperature, high purity solid material processing and handling operations.
Fluidized bed reactor design and scale-up.
Solids crystallization and solids separation process technology design and scale-up.
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