Industry
Life Science
Process Engineer - Life Sciences
Dublin
Skills:
Engineering
Recruitment
Manufacturing
Flow
Life Sciences
Instrumentation
Biopharma
Life Science
Process Design
Process Engineering
Description
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Your impact
The Process Engineer will support the development and delivery of process design activities across Life Sciences projects, ensuring high‑quality, compliant, and efficient engineering outputs. Working under the guidance of senior engineering leads, the role involves contributing technical expertise, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring that design deliverables meet project requirements, client expectations, and industry standards.
This position is suited to an engineer with 5+ years’ experience in process design within the BioPharma or related regulated industries, who is ready to take ownership of defined work packages while continuing to grow technical depth and cross‑disciplinary understanding.
Day to day duties and responsibilities
Process Design Basis
- Applies process design criteria, guidelines and contract requirements to process design work.
- May be responsible for interacting with licensors, including establishing design basis and license or evaluation.
- Applies process design criteria and guidelines to all phases of process engineering.
Flow Diagrams
- Prepares flow diagrams and participates in flow diagram reviews.
- Understands the importance of the flow diagram as a communication tool to other disciplines.
- Is able to prepare and review flow diagrams with total information to correspond to the flow sequence, operability and the safety of the unit/system.
- Answers questions, with confidence, from other disciplines and clients as to the requirement/function of each item on the flow sheet.
- Back checks, updates, and ensures consistency with related design documents such as specification sheets and with other units.
- Prepares and reviews metallurgy flow diagrams.
- Equipment Datasheets
- Prepares process and utility equipment specification sheets. May be responsible for design of a system or a complete unit.
- Understands importance of the equipment specification sheet as a communication tool with other disciplines.
- Prepares equipment duty specifications for all equipment including complex equipment such as reactors.
- Prepares detail design specification for all equipment.
- Reviews input from other disciplines for compatibility with process design for all equipment.
Control Philosophy
- Prepares instrumentation process data. Assists in establishing control philosophy for relatively complex control systems to meet process objectives, including safety.
- Prepares control valves process data, relief valve data, analyze data.
- Interprets control philosophy of relatively complex control systems.
- Reviews control systems specification sheets for consistency with process data
- Reviews logic diagrams for relatively simple loops.
- Evaluates alternative control strategies to meet process objectives.
Calculations
- Performs specifications/calculations and technical studies.
- Completes conceptual developments of a major system and performs all necessary calculations for process design of systems and equipment within the assigned area.
- Performs relatively complex technical studies under general supervision.
- Ensures that calculations are legible, well organized, correctly references as to equipment/system, dated and signed.
Here's what you'll need
- Honours degree in Chemical Engineering or related discipline.
- 8+ years’ experience in process engineering within BioPharma, Nutritional, or Medical Device sectors.
- Strong understanding of cGMP, regulatory expectations, and industry design standards.
- Proficiency in process engineering software such as SuperPro®, SchedulePro®, PipeFlo, FlexSim, or equivalent tools.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines.
- Demonstrated ability to manage workload, meet deadlines, and deliver high‑quality technical outputs.
Preferred
- Experience working within a large, international engineering organisation.
- Interest in developing broader multidisciplinary knowledge and contributing to knowledge‑sharing across Jacobs offices.
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Locations
| City | State | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Cork | Co. Cork | Ireland |
| Dublin | Dublin | Ireland |
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