Our core values reflect who we are, how we perform and what we aspire to:
Valdes proudly executes all work in the United States to maintain the utmost quality for our clients. We are a certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) and hold the following certifications:
Responsibilities
- Coordinate work with other departments to achieve project milestones
- Execute P&ID walk-down efforts or field verification of P&ID’s
- Identify and resolve client design errors, open issues, project execution errors or conflicting information on projects
- Participate in Process Hazard Analysis
- Develop material and energy balances as required for projects
- Utilize vendors in the design and selection of process equipment including packaged processes and technologies for inclusion in process designs
- Familiar with process technologies and standard refining processes
- Check process data on instrument data sheets and recognize the applicability/limitations of the instrument technology selected
- Check simple calculations, line lists, equipment lists, specialty items lists and simple equipment data sheets
- Track hours used to execute project tasks, review projects schedules
- Identify out of scope work on projects.
- Learn to develop complex process simulations including HTRI etc., utilizing the correct thermodynamic property packages and, understanding the limitations of simulation
- Learn to develop relief device scenarios and calculate estimated required relief loads
- Learn to develop complex equipment and vessel process designs along with required data sheets
- Learn to develop project execution plans for projects, including fast track and long lead item identification
- Learn to identify the necessity for process control interlocks
- Learn to mentor young engineers and provide direction and effectively delegating work to other engineers on a team
- Learn to develop scopes of work on large process projects
- Learn to solve client operating problems / Troubleshoot existing processes
- Learn to recommend potential instruments and specific technologies for applications
- Learn to recognize project opportunities
- Learn to understand process design codes and standards and utilize them when they are applicable
- Learn to recognize the importance of developing an estimated solution to an engineering problem versus an exact solution
- Learn to develop complex control strategies
- Learn to develop and evaluate conceptual process designs
- Learn to conduct inter-discipline reviews, highlighting important design aspects to other departments
- Learn to collect process data that is not readily available and make design decisions based on limited process information
- All other duties as assigned
Technical Competencies
- Understanding and ability to apply basic fundamentals in Chemical Engineering, including ; Fluid Dynamics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Process Unit Operations and Separations, basic Reaction Kinetics and Reaction Design Theory, Material and heat balances, etc.
- Understand PFD and P&ID symbology, layout, standards and workflow
- Generate Process Flow Diagrams (PFD’s) and Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID’s)
- Modify simple P&ID’s and check modifications against CAD drafting standards and client standards
- Develop demolition P&ID’s
- Develop and maintain Drawing list, Line lists, Equipment lists, and Specialty Items lists
- Read, understand, and utilize piping isometrics and plot plans in order to perform hydraulic calculations for compressible, incompressible and two-phase systems, including dense phase and dilute phase pneumatic conveying
- Perform and document process calculations that can be easily checked
- Develop simple process simulations and is familiar with physical property estimation packages
- Develop physical property data for the selection of instrumentation
- Understand the hierarchy of process documents in process designs
- Understand typical instrumentation types and their principles of operation.
- Capable of checking work produced at an Engineer I & II skill level
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, as well as Aspen HYSYS and MathCAD
- Manage simple process projects and strategies
- Understand process design equations and their applicability to design engineering
- Develop process man-hour estimates for small projects.
- Review vendor equipment designs and data for suitability to the process design.
- Drafting a simple process scope of work document
- Developing a Process Design Basis
- Specify specialty items and generate specialty item data sheets as required
- Drive Process Engineering efforts to conclusion by anticipating the requirements of the final deliverable to the client
- Ability to size, select, specify and design pressure relief devices, inlet an outlet piping and effluent handling systems
- Set process design conditions and develop simple equipment designs/sizes along with the required data sheets
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Chemical Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience working as a Chemical or Process Engineer
- Understanding and ability to apply basic fundamentals in Chemical Engineering, specifically; Fluid Dynamics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Process Unit Operations and Separations, basic Reaction Kinetics and Reaction Design Theory, and material and Energy Balances
- Ability to think critically and logically, solving problems rapidly to a solution
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Solid Microsoft Office skills
- Comfortable working in a team environment
- Dependable and self-motivated, with strong ethical principles
- Ability to receive direction from department manager and/or discipline lead and incorporate instruction into completing tasks
- Understands when to seek additional guidance from the department manager on project/process issues and/or discipline lead and when to research the solution on their own
- Comfortable approaching a mentor with technical or business related questions
- Must be a US citizen or green card holder