Lead - Process Engineering

Key Responsibilities

Mandatory skill:

Chemical Engineer with 8 to10 years’ experience with Basic level of understanding on the GMP aspects. Interaction with the CFT team for the lab development and the manufacturing facility. Willing to travel to SBPs at different locations.

Process volume calculations, capacity calculations. Interaction with the Process R & D for the process understanding and prepare the process engineering input form. Evaluation of the time lines and preparation of Gantt Charts. Interaction with the production team run the projects in the plant with complete safety and quality compliance.

Process screening and hazard evaluation

Literature search, thorough understanding of MSDS

Identification of reactive chemical group/ hazardous reaction chemistry and calculation towards the estimation of hazard potential

Proper understanding the reaction chemistry interacting with Process R&D

Process Optimization

Providing necessary technical inputs during interaction with scientists for process robustness w.r.t. scalability, operability and cost effectiveness; Involving in process optimization with focus on right quality & yield on scale to ensure smooth execution of scale up batches and to be in-line with the project requirements.

Safety During Execution

Identification of hazards in the process and provide justification for modification of the process w.r.t. safe execution of batches in plant to achieve safe execution of batches. Coordinating with the IPDO and CRA lab team generate the safety data required for the scale up process.

Documentation

Preparation of PE package, Process hazard analysis, Risk analysis, BPR preparation on need basis.

Technical Requirements

Good chemical engineering knowledge on unit operation like Reaction , Distillation, Crystallization and Isolation

Process engineering knowledge on Mixing, Distillation, Filtration, Drying

Thorough process understanding of API Scale up and Technology transfer.

Capacity calculations and equipment evaluations.

Gantt chart preparation.

Mapping of the execution plant/ facility. Coordination for the equipment modifications taking the dummy trials at the plant.

Timeline calculation Preparation of PFD , P&ID

Utility calculations.

Soft Skill Requirement

Communication, Time management, Adaptability, Interaction with Marketing team and other CFTs, Understand the customer specifications.

Desired Candidate Profile

Good chemical engineering knowledge on unit operation like Reaction , Distillation, Crystallization and Isolation

Process engineering knowledge on Mixing, Distillation, Filtration, Drying

Thorough process understanding of API Scale up and Technology transfer.

Capacity calculations and equipment evaluations.

Gantt chart preparation

Education And Experience

B Tech Chemical Engineer with 12 to 15 Years’ Experience.