Principal process development engineer

Job Description

You are purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you will find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day.

From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for.


Fluor and Energy Materials, an Orbia business, is hiring a Principal Process Development Engineer to be based at Thornton Science Park, Cheshire, UK.


Main Purpose

Provide technical expertise on plant operation, troubleshooting and fundamental design philosophy to ensure safe and efficient commissioning of new, full-scale manufacturing plant and equipment. The application of process modelling tools to characterize and optimize plant performance. Independently lead process development activities to manufacture fluorinated compounds, including the hands-on laboratory and pilot set up and execution of research and development studies, and scale-up of such to full manufacturing scale.