Day-today responsibilities are extremely diverse and depend on the role and the sector in which you work. In general, tasks may include:
working closely with process chemists and control engineers to ensure the process plant is set up to provide maximum output levels and efficient running of the production facility;
designing plant and equipment configuration so that they can be readily adapted to suit the product range and the process technologies involved, taking environmental and economic aspects into account;
setting up scale-up and scale-down processes including appropriate changes to equipment design and configuration;
assessing options for plant expansion or reconfiguration by developing and testing process simulation models;
designing, installing and commissioning new production plants, including monitoring developments and troubleshooting;
optimising production by analysing processes and compiling de-bottleneck studies;
applying new technologies;
researching new products from trial through to commercialisation and improving product lines;
ensuring that potential safety issues related to the project operator, the environment, the process and the product are considered at all stages.
