Chemical Engineer | Projects & Process Improvement
Are you a Chemical Engineer who thrives on solving complex plant problems, improving performance and turning ideas into real-world results?
Join our clients Projects team and play a key role inoptimising plant performance, increasing capacity, improving efficiency and reliability, enhancing safety and delivering better product quality.
Working closely with Production, Maintenance, SHEQ, Procurement and other teams, you’ll take projects fromconcept through execution, commissioning and benefit realisation— while gaining hands-on exposure to bothproject engineering and plant operations.
What you’ll be doing
- Identify and deliverprocess optimisation, debottlenecking and capital projects
- Develop scopes, technical solutions, business cases, budgets and implementation plans
- Lead equipment sizing, process design, specifications, costing and technical reviews
- Troubleshoot production, quality and reliability challenges and driveroot-cause solutions
- Plan and overseelaboratory and plant trials, commissioning and process changes
- Analyse plant data to uncoverlosses, constraints and improvement opportunities
- Drive improvements inproduction, yield, energy efficiency, cost, reliability and quality
- Support HAZOPs, risk assessments, MOC and incident investigations
- Embed sustainable improvements throughSOPs, training, standards and monitoring
What you’ll bring
- BSc in Chemical Engineering
- 5+ years’ relevant experiencein a chemical, manufacturing or industrial plant environment
- Proven experience inprocess engineering, plant projects, production support or process improvement
- A practical, hands-on approach with the ability to turn engineering insight into measurable plant results
Why this opportunity?
This is more than a projects role. It’s an opportunity to builddeep technical and operational expertise, work on high-impact engineering challenges and position yourself for futuretechnical or operational leadership.
And the location?Durban — where your career can come with sun, sea and sand.
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