Senior Execution Engineer

🕒 September 17

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

👻 Ghost score 12%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Whitefox

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Whitefox is a clean-technology company that develops proprietary membrane separation systems (branded Whitefox ICE®) to decarbonize industrial chemical separations, especially for ethanol and other biofuels, sustainable aviation fuel, biochemicals and pharmaceuticals. Their membrane engineering reduces energy and water use for distillation and dehydration, increases plant capacity and product purity, and helps customers move toward net-zero targets. They provide end-to-end solutions including process assessment, engineering design, project realization and installation for industrial (B2B) customers.

📋 Description

• Serve as Whitefox's technical authority for projects from FEL1 through commissioning and the O&M contract • Own the quality of engineering delivered by the execution partner and the technical relationship with that partner • Act as the client's technical counterpart for the Whitefox system • Drive technical solution development, systems design and deliverable review while keeping the Project Manager involved • Chair technical reviews, set the agenda for technical progress and escalate partner capability or resourcing risks • Review and accept PFDs with heat and material balances, P&IDs, equipment design, sizing and selection, 3D models and equipment layout, and control narratives against Whitefox design criteria • Hold quality-control gates and record deviations with technical rationale • Own the technical accuracy of the partner's IFC package • Own Whitefox equipment sizing and selection, basis of design and CORE control narratives • Co-responsibly execute commissioning and start-up with Customer Support • Flag technical impacts of changes on cost and schedule to Project Management • Drive installed systems to offered benefits and performance after commissioning and quantify results • Support troubleshooting of live operations against contractual obligations • Own health and safety considerations in engineering design, including hazard identification, safe operating limits, HAZOP participation and closeout of design safety actions • Identify design modifications, improvements and optimisations from lessons learned and field feedback • Provide on-the-job training and coaching to Execution Engineers and POD peers • Help develop simulation templates, tools, design criteria and training materials • Feed partner and field learnings back to the Head of Execution Engineering • Represent Whitefox values, standards and safety culture to customers and external stakeholders during site visits and support activities

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in chemical or process engineering, or an equivalent discipline • Eight or more years in process engineering on industrial plant, including work through detailed design into the field • Hands-on production of, or accountable review of, PFDs with heat and material balances, P&IDs, equipment design, sizing and selection, 3D models and equipment layout, control narratives, programming guidelines and SOPs • Working command of a commercial process simulator • Experience of commissioning and start-up on site, including troubleshooting under time and client pressure • Technical depth in post-commissioning and O&M • Working knowledge of process safety in design, including hazard identification, HAZOP, safe operating limits and closing design safety actions • Experience of formal change control on an operating plant or in a project environment • Experience delivering engineering through third-party EPC or engineering contractors • Separation or membrane process experience, or a demonstrable track record of getting to depth quickly in an unfamiliar unit operation • Fluency in reading contractual performance guarantees and translating them into operating limits and test conditions • Experience in ethanol, biofuels, distillation or dehydration plant is desirable • Experience with evaporation is desirable • Exposure to plant control systems and programming guidelines or FAT processes is desirable • Experience writing design criteria documents or engineering standards for external use is desirable • Experience mentoring or line-managing junior engineers is desirable • Ability to influence technical decisions without positional authority • Strong externally facing relationship and stakeholder skills • Clear written communication • Ability to work in a cross-functional POD • Sound escalation and judgement skills • Ability to teach and coach others • Ability to remain steady under commissioning conditions • Standard US full-time hours (40 hrs/week) • Willingness to travel within the USA approximately 30%

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus pay • 401(k) matching • Dental insurance • Health insurance • Paid time off • Professional development assistance • Remote/home-based work arrangement • Approximately 30% travel within the USA