Design Engineer

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Air Liquide Electronics innovative electronic materials respond to increasingly challenging customer demands for improved mobility, connectivity, computing power and energy consumption. We offer ultra pure carrier gases, a wide range of specialty gases and advanced precursor molecules, enabling equipment for safe distribution, purification and on-line purity control. On site, manufacturers rely on our expertise in providing full management of these gases, advanced molecules and equipment and in helping to continuously improve production processes.

• Pay: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

• Comprehensive Family Benefits: Air Liquide offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.

• Support for Parents: We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.

• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.

• Early Access: Your benefits start day 1.

The Design Engineer is a team member of the PEG Design Engineering and Project Development group and is dedicated to the process design of industrial gas, specialty gas and chemical systems for Air Liquide customers in the Electronics industry. This position partners on design development and project technical support starting at the conceptual phase through project execution, expanding expertise in applying RAGAGEP (Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices), national codes and internal IMS standards to the project design. In addition to project design development, the Design Engineer will provide technical support to existing ALE operating sites. This position is valued as a key technical contributor in a primary field of expertise and contributes at a local entity level.

Responsibilities

• Develop process design which complies with recognized codes, internal and external standards and good engineering practices

• Evaluate client's proposal request to identify project objectives and technical requirements; prepare design basis and design milestone schedule

• Assist estimating and implementation staff by soliciting bids, performing technical bid analysis, developing bill of materials, and specifying components

• Assist proposal development by addressing technical descriptions, scope definition and technical clarifications

• Design and specify major equipment and associated utility systems

• Perform equipment, piping, valves and component sizing and specification; prepare equipment data sheets

• Guide and collaborate with drafting personnel for development of Process Flow Diagrams, plan drawings, routing and detail drawings and P&IDs

• Facilitate design review meetings for process systems; track and close design review action items

• Actively participate in reviews for safety, operability and reliability

• Create and maintain project records including design calculations, drawings, equipment and component specifications, lessons learned, design review minutes, bid packages and administrative files

• Assist project management during project execution: resolve discrepancies, changes or omissions in design and design documents

• Track design modifications; issue Design Change Notice Oversee and refine design documentation modifications; review field staff provided P&ID and plan drawing markups to reflect as-built status

• Develop commissioning, startup, operation and maintenance procedures; review and ensure that operational concerns are addressed prior to commissioning so that the process / system can be operated safely and efficiently

• Evaluate value-engineering options to provide the lowest cost solution while maintaining project requirements; develop documents to compare and present value-engineered options to client and project staff; incorporate the pertinent changes in the project design

• Coordinate and build partnerships with suppliers and third-party consultants to meet project objectives; solicit quotations for specialized equipment or subassemblies

• Develop design standards and specifications for recurring tasks to ensure reliability, consistency and improved design process efficiency

• Contributes technically and shares knowledge at a local entity level

• Serve as a trusted Design Expert in their primary field of expertise; assist existing facilities with the Management of Change process

Required Qualifications

•  Education BS Degree Chemical or Mechanical Engineering                 

• Experience Minimum five (5) years work experience in engineering process design, operations or project engineering in industrial gas, chemical or related industry

• Design Engineer Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of fluid flow; ability to perform complex calculations

• Technical knowledge of carrier gas system function and ASU process

• General knowledge of common industrial gas system piping and components

• Familiarity with common industry codes such as NFPA, ASME standards, and internal IMS standards

• Ability to understand and interpret project specific specifications, codes and standards

• Ability to prepare, read, interpret and scale P&IDs, mechanical, electrical, civil and structural drawings

• Ability to apply good engineering practices

• Strong problem solving skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to organize and prioritize workload; set major design milestone dates

• Ability to plan work, both short and long term to ensure project deadlines are met

• Proficient in use of MS Office products and/or Google Suite tools

• Proficient in use of pipe flow and stress modeling programs (AFT Arrow and Fathom, CAEPIPE, Crane Flow of Fluids, CAESAR)

• Familiarity with Autodesk AutoCAD software

• Ability to research and apply new technologies  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the semiconductor industry

• Experience in the industrial gas industry

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.