Summary: The Engineering Manager will oversee and manage process engineering activities at Fluid Quip Technologies. This leadership role involves coordinating and optimizing the process engineering workflow from project conception through detailed engineering, commissioning, system start-up, and plant optimization. The Engineering Manager will focus on resource allocation, team development, and ensuring the successful execution of projects while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. They will mentor and guide engineers at all levels, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Relationships

Builds and manages client relationships for ongoing and future projects, ensuring client needs are met by the engineering team Manages and mentors a team of engineers, understands career goals of members of the engineering team, identifying skill gaps and providing development opportunities

Process Engineering:

Ensures mastery of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, verifying adherence to technical requirements and industry-leading best practices Oversees FQT Process Engineering team deliverables, ensuring alignment with project goals, technical standards, and quality requirements Serves as the Principal reviewer throughout the FEL (Front-End Loading) process, including design base engineering reports, client presentations and plant layouts, ensuring the accuracy of the technology and alignment with project goals Manages and supports client presentations to ensure technical clarity and client satisfaction, addressing challenges as needed. Manages the selection and design of process equipment and piping systems, ensuring consistency with standards and project objectives Manages the process for delivering Engineering documents, ensuring accuracy and alignment with both client and project goals Manages process startup activities, coordinating with the engineering team and other departments to ensure smooth and timely execution, addressing challenges, and optimizing resources. Reviews process control documents, ensuring alignment with technical standards and supports smooth operations in startup and ongoing phases operations Manages process modeling processes, ensuring the engineering team has the tools to achieve project objectives and standards, and optimize efficiency Manages engineering relationships, ensuring coordination, integration, and adherence to project standards and requirements. Oversees R&D initiatives of the process engineering team, ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with strategic company objectives

Safety and Quality:

Manages safety protocols, overseeing PHA and HAZOP reviews and ensuring adherence to safety standards and risk management objectives Establishes and enforces QA/QC standards within the engineering team, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality outputs

Project Management:

Manages cost estimation, budgeting, and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with project requirements and financial constraints Supervises and optimizes project schedules, ensuring alignment with milestones, team capacity, and client expectations Manages engineering team, ensuring effective collaboration, mentoring, and alignment with project goals and organizational strategies

Qualifications:

Skills:

Provides oversight on resolving systemic challenges, implementing solutions that enhance operational excellence Ensures open communication across teams and clients, promoting clarity and trust Cultivates a cohesive engineering team, fostering trust and accountability while ensuring team performance aligns with strategic objectives Mentors team members to build leadership skills, promoting career growth and fostering a collaborative culture

Characteristics:

Fosters a positive and adaptive mindset, focusing on team alignment and operational resilience Drives high-energy engagement across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring steady progress even in challenging scenarios Balances team workload and accountability for both personal and team outcomes, while striving for operational excellence in every project Proactively leads initiatives to streamline workflows and improve team performance

Technical Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred 15+ years of practical engineering experience Expertise in process engineering principles, including oversight of complex mass and energy balances, system/equipment sizing, system optimization, and the application of FQT technologies. Focuses on ensuring team proficiency in these areas and driving high-quality, efficient project execution

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

Travel requirements vary significantly by project. While the average travel is roughly 30%, certain projects may require on-site presence depending on the complexity or stage of the project Valid driver’s license required

Fluid Quip Technologies® offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Fluid Quip Technologies® (Fluid Quip) provides custom technologies and engineering services to the biofuel and biochemical industries worldwide. Fluid Quip has commercialized multiple technologies to enhance the base corn-to-ethanol dry grind process, create new and novel alternative feed products, and supply the growing need for carbohydrate feedstocks into the biochemical market. Green Plains Inc., Ospraie Management, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock hold a majority interest in Fluid Quip.