Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Process engineer driving conceptual and basic design across chemical recycling, hydrogen, and chemical production. Steering multidisciplinary teams with clear structure, technical depth, and full‑scope alignment. Delivering strong process‑safety leadership in ATEX, PHA, and compliance. Recognised for shaping organisational standards, establishing procedures, and workflows that strengthen organisational quality, consistency, and delivery across the business.
Senior Process Engineer, Project Manager & Process Safety Specialist - Leading multi‑million‑euro projects through conceptual and basic engineering with disciplined execution and full‑scope oversight - Delivering complex industrial designs across chemical recycling, hydrogen, and chemical production - Steering multidisciplinary engineering teams with clear direction, alignment, and technical authority - Providing strong process‑safety leadership in ATEX, PHA, and regulatory compliance - Developing and implementing organisational standards, procedures, and workflows that elevate quality, consistency, and project delivery across the business
Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Industrial Doctorate scholarship recipient. Centre of Molecular Modelling research group (https://molmod.ugent.be/). - Studying the automatic generation of chemical models, particularly in the context of reactive force fields such as ReaxFF. - Developing computational Python packages to reparametrize such force fields through a novel global optimization strategy which is able to outperform state-of-the-art approaches >80% of the time. - Creation of automatic sensitivity analysis tools to improve stability of optimisations in real time by identifying spurious parameters and training set elements. - Project forms part of a larger European one with academic partners from RWTH Aachen and industrial partner from the Netherlands, requiring continuous coordination and collaboration. - Integration of project algorithms into commercial software codebase, development of user friendly and flexible UI.
- Introduction of new methods to improve the parameterization of high-dimensional models: >90% faster, overfitting avoided. - Integration of parameterization algorithms into commercial software code using Python.
Specialisation in the fields of fluid agitation, solids suspension and transport phenomena through the use of CFD, experimental work and field testing. Catered to both local and international clients in the the mining and process industries. Position offered an opportunity to tackle a wide range of problems in different environments and shepherd solutions through their entire lifecycle from design to computational simulation, scale modelling, piloting and finally commissioning. Highlights: - Project lead in the design of a bespoke tailings treatment facility to extract residual copper. - Saved a client $100 000’s by designing and commissioning unique retrofits for their pumpcell circuits. - Given broad range of responsibilities outside of core engineering duties including project management, patenting, report writing, finance and business management.