Junior Process Engineer

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

The role

KBR’s global business comprises two main segments – Government Solutions (GS) and Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS). This role sits within STS in the Technology business unit. The Technology business unit is a leading global provider of innovative, proprietary process technologies and catalysts used across numerous downstream industries. KBR technologies are known for producing clean, sustainable end products, mitigating environmental impact and reducing operational hazards.

As a junior process engineer you will be responsible for the study, design, and process specification of equipment, piping and instrumentation related to processing plants such as syngas, ethylene, organic chemicals and refined products, and more specifically hydrogen and ammonia.

The position is ideally based in KBR’s Leatherhead Campus. Flexible working can be discussed.

Job Responsibilities

Working as part of a friendly team under the supervision of senior process engineers, you will contribute to and assist in the production of the following:

• Perform screening, feasibility and conceptual studies for revamping of existing plants, designing of new plants, developing new process schemes, improving existing process flow sheets.

• Development of process simulations to produce heat and material balances.

• Development of process flow sheets and utility flow diagrams.

• Development of equipment process data sheets.

• Calculations for the preliminary design or rating of equipment and apparatus such as heat exchangers, vessels, reactors, etc. and development of preliminary system design parameters.

• Preparation of process hydraulic calculations for pump and line sizing.

Requirements/Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.

• Collaborative team player.

• Excellent technical skills and attention to detail.

• Analytical thinker with interpersonal skills.

• Articulate communicator who is comfortable clients facing.

• Experience in process simulations.

• Working knowledge of process engineering software packages, e.g. AspenPlus, Hysys, Pro/II.

• Awareness and consideration of Environmental, Health and Safety importance.

Desirable

• Experience working as a graduate process engineer following an accredited development scheme or other relevant equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of process related standards.

• MSVisio skills.

• Presentations skills.

• Experience in syngas technology (ammonia, hydrogen, methanol) is most preferred, but experience in refining and olefins technology will also be considered.

• Familiarity with operating hydrogen and/or ammonia plants would be considered as a plus.