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The Equipment Engineer Lead serves as the onsite Equipment Lead Engineer for Project Ascent at Tippecanoe and reports directly to the Engineering Manager. This role is accountable for the coordination and integration of $100 million dollars worth of process equipment in close collaboration with the Process Design team.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Serve as the primary onsite liaison between Process Design and Equipment Engineering, ensuring alignment of equipment scope, technical assumptions, and engineering deliverables.
- Translate process design documentation—including PFDs, P&IDs, and heat and material balances—into detailed equipment specifications, execution packages, and clearly defined battery limits and interface responsibilities.
- Lead equipment engineering activities performed by third-party engineering firms and consultants, ensuring deliverables meet project requirements, schedules, and quality expectations.
- Partner with Procurement to develop equipment RFQs, conduct technical bid evaluations, resolve vendor clarifications, and coordinate vendor documentation throughout the procurement process.
- Oversee supplier quality activities by conducting shop visits, supporting Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), validating equipment design and fabrication, and resolving technical deviations.
- Coordinate equipment layouts, constructability reviews, installation strategies, lifting plans, transportation logistics, and tie-in activities with Construction Management to support efficient field execution.
- Maintain equipment engineering action, issue, and risk registers while proactively identifying technical risks, resolving interface issues, and escalating critical concerns to project leadership.
- Provide technical leadership during construction, mechanical completion, and project turnover while supporting project controls through engineering status updates, cost and schedule alignment, gate reviews, and monthly reporting.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, or a related Engineering discipline required.
- 15+ years of experience in equipment engineering, process equipment, or project engineering supporting large capital projects within chemical, industrial, or manufacturing environments required.
- Proven experience coordinating equipment scope and technical deliverables with Process Engineering teams and multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated success working with international or distributed engineering teams while effectively coordinating engineering consultants, contractors, vendors, and OEMs.
- Strong knowledge of process equipment including reactors, pressure vessels, pumps, centrifuges, dryers, packaged utility systems, and related industrial equipment.
- Experience developing equipment specifications, scopes of work, technical documentation, vendor evaluations, and equipment procurement packages.
- Familiarity with Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), vendor document management, constructability reviews, mechanical completion, and field execution support.
- Excellent communication, organization, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to negotiate technical issues, resolve conflicts, and align project execution with cost, schedule, GMP, and ISPE Baseline Guide requirements.
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
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Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Brittney Compton [C]Company is
Evonik CorporationSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Process, or related Engineering discipline
- 15+ years of experience in equipment engineering, process equipment, or project engineering supporting large capital projects within chemical, industrial, or manufacturing environments
- Proven experience coordinating equipment scope and technical deliverables with Process Engineering teams and multidisciplinary engineering organizations
- Demonstrated success working with international or distributed engineering teams and coordinating engineering consultants, contractors, vendors, and OEMs
- Strong knowledge of process equipment including reactors, pressure vessels, pumps, centrifuges, dryers, packaged utility systems, and related industrial equipment
- Experience developing equipment specifications, scopes of work, technical documentation, vendor evaluations, and equipment procurement packages
- Familiarity with Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), vendor document management, constructability reviews, mechanical completion, and field execution support
- Excellent communication, organization, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills; ability to negotiate technical issues and align execution with cost, schedule, GMP, and ISPE requirements
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