What are the skills needed to scale up chemical processes?

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Hard Skills require for Process Scale-up as well as soft skill of problem solving, team management and good professional behavior1.Chemical Process Design & Development included EPFD2.Chemical Process Engineering with cost Engineering3Chemical Kinetic and Process Optimization4.Preliminary Techno-economic feasibility report preparation5.Primary data generation on lab.
scale or getting information from literature survey6.Manage the patent or process if already filed7.Secondary data generation on Pilot Plant Scale before commercialization8.Stream line the process equipment on pilot plant scale9.Removing bottleneck10.
Methodology for process scale-up11.Economic Evaluation at each step or during process iteration Regards (Syed Burhanuddin Abdal)i Principal Scientific Officer PCSIR Laboratories Complex, Karachi Ministry of Science &Technology Pakistan

Reporting to the Manufacturing Director, you will be providing expertise in the design and commissioning of small scale, highly specialised, batch chemical processes.
Your contribution to developing the manufacturing capability of the business will be an essential part of this rapidly growing, high technology company.
This is a senior role that offers a unique opportunity to develop the world-leading technology required for the manufacture of novel, high value materials.
It combines ‘hands-on’ personal involvement in design and technical problem solving with the challenge of managing multi-million GBP projects using external resources.
Nanoco currently has laboratory reactors up to20L, has detailed plans for a Kilo Lab with reactors up to200L and outline plans for a pilot plant.
Specific duties will include: interfacing with Research and Scale-Up teams to define, develop and optimise processes; designing larger scale process equipment and support services; procuring external design and associated services, procuring process equipment, construction and commissioning services; leading or participating in HAZOP and hazard assessment; commissioning new equipment and processes; trouble shooting complex chemical processes and equipment.
You will have a professional engineering background with a relevant qualification to degree level and proven skills in scaling up complex chemical processes.
You will have excellent technical engineering skills, project management skills, attention to detail, a high level of HSE awareness and be able to work autonomously.
You will need to be a good communicator, be able to work well within a small team and to take a leading role on projects.
You will be able to manage technical resources from external contractors as well as within the business.
Ideally, applicants should have a minimum of10 years’ experience (5 years at management level) in the chemical/fine chemical, semiconductor or pharmaceutical industries, and have experience of scaling up processes from laboratory to pilot plant (reactors from20L to2000L).
Experience should include hazardous process design and the use of HAZOP assessments.
The candidate should be fluent in English and have excellent written and verbal communication skills along with good computer skills.