Usare
Senior Process Engineer - Capital Projects (Round Top)
Wheat Ridge, CO · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 25 days ago
Project ManagementSupply Chain
About the role
- We have a substantial interest in the Round Top, Heavy Rare Earth, Lithium and Critical Minerals deposit in West Texas.
- We move fast when executing, but safety, quality, and excellence always come first.
- Win Together: Establishing a rare earth magnet supply chain is a big undertaking - and getting there is a team effort.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary liaison between USA Rare Earth's process development team and the EPCM contractor, acting as the owner's representative to ensure alignment on technical deliverables, schedule, and design intent.
- Lead structured review cycles for key engineering deliverables including Process Design Criteria (PDC), Block Flow Diagrams (BFD), Process Flow Diagrams (PFD), Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), and control philosophy documents.
- Liaise with external partners, including EPCMs, equipment manufacturers, engineering consultants, and regulatory agencies.
- Participate in and lead internal design reviews, HAZOP/PHA sessions, and constructability reviews on behalf of the owner.
- Review EPCM-produced process equipment sizing, utility requirements, and equipment datasheets to ensure alignment with pilot-scale performance data and established design intent.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the rare earth separation process from swarf feedstock through MREC processing to separated rare earth oxide production.
- Serve as the technical steward of the process design basis in coordination with the process development SMEs.
- Support design and commissioning of pilot- and commercial-scale process systems, including test plans and performance verification.
- Demonstrated experience as an owner's representative or engineering lead interfacing with an EPCM or EPC contractor on a major capital project.
- Experience participating in or leading PHAs, HAZOPs, and design reviews.
Requirements
- They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, move, sit, carry, bend, kneel, reach, push, pull, lift, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel and talk and hear.
- May be required to lift and move boxes or packages not exceeding 20 pounds in weight.
- Some work stress inherent to the position and extended work hours may be required.
- Experience with FEL-2 or FEL-3 engineering execution on a minerals processing or chemical plant project.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, or a related field
- advanced degree a plus.
- Understanding of rare earth processing chemistry or secondary feedstock (scrap/swarf) processing is a plus.
Skills
- If our task was a simple one, it would already be done.
Company info
- We are on a mission to become a leading supplier of critical materials that enable the green energy and technology revolution.
- Our materials and technologies are required for the electric vehicle, green energy, consumer electronics, and defense industries, and our battery grade lithium and tech metals are needed for chipsets, semiconductors, and 5G.
- We have also developed the United States' first rare earth and critical minerals processing facility and we own the only scalable, sintered neo-magnet manufacturing system in the Western Hemisphere.
- By developing this fully integrated, US-based "mine-to-magnet" critical mineral supply chain, we are poised to become the leading domestic supplier to these industries.
- What you can expect: At USA Rare Earth, we are pioneers and problem solvers, technologists and team players.
- Together, we: Build Solutions: If our task was a simple one, it would already be done.
- We are creative and solution-oriented, and we think outside the box to solve important problems.
- We know that a range of expertise and technologies is needed for success, and we work across sectors and alongside customers to deliver world-class solutions in sustainable ways.
- Deliver Quality: When we do things, we do them well.
- We believe that top-tier quality leads to industry competitiveness and we hold ourselves to the highest quality standards.
- Lead responsibly: We have a responsibility to the planet, our consumers, our country, and each other.
- We put safety at the center of all we do, take accountability for our actions, incorporate sustainable practices in our processes and act with the financial best interest of our investors and consumers in mind.
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