Job Description

The Company

BQE Water Inc. are experiencing an exciting period of growth and looking to recruit intermediate level Process Engineers (PEng) with 5-10 years of work experience to join our talented team, at our brand-new office and lab in Mount Pleasant! Through technical innovation and engineering expertise, we help international mining industry clients to produce clean water, reduce their environmental footprint, potentially extract mineral value from wastewater, and meetstringent government regulations - all will promotion socially acceptable operations with a focus on water as a vital shared resource. To learn more about the business, please visit www.bqewater.com.

The Opportunity

Our intermediate Process Engineers have broad responsibilities, collaborating with all members of the company, plus clients. The right person will have a passion for engineering design, improving design tools and systems and working within a team. In this role you will:

Work with the project team to complete engineering design deliverables for unique BQE Water Projects ranging from feasibility, basic engineering to detailed and IFC design.

Have the confidence and experience to own engineering designs, stamp and seal IFC level documentation and take responsibility and ownership for engineering decisions.

Work and engage with other project stakeholders: owner project teams, collaborating engineers from other disciplines, construction tradespeople, colleagues in project delivery, commissioning, operations and laboratory studies.

Work with laboratory staff to convert lab discoveries into design apparatus for practical application on BQE Water projects.

Have experience in designing many unit operations including hydraulic conveying, solid-liquid separation, gas-liquid mass transfer, chemical and biochemical reactors, ion exchange and electro-reduction or equivalent processes and equipment.

Complete detailed process engineering design including mass and energy balances, equipment sizing and specifications, PFDs, P&IDs, GAs, instrument lists, etc.

Write, review and edit technical documentation including lab reports, technical papers, design reports and proposals

Plan process automation for treatment plants (i.e., control philosophies, instrument specification, as well as the opportunity for PLC/HMI programming if interested).

Contribute to the development of BQE internal design standards and tools.

Contribute to training and onboarding materials to expedite the development of junior engineers joining the BQE Water team.

Qualifications and Requirements

Degree in engineering, disciplines of preference - chemical, hydrometallurgy, mineral processing, materials or mechanical.

Registered as a Professional Engineer in your province.

5-10 years of experience in detailed process plant design engineering in water treatment, mineral processing, or chemical industries, plus hands-on plant commissioning/operation familiarity.

Solid understanding of the fundamental principles of aqueous inorganic chemistry.

Strong mechanical aptitude - you have built things before and can figure out how things work.

Can-do attitude - you always find a way to get things done You enjoy multi-discipline engineering, and don't hesitate to roll up your sleeves to help a colleague with a hands-on task.

Personally, you'll possess attention to detail, ownership of your work, proven effective communication, effective relationship building skills with colleagues, clients and vendors.

Comfortable occasionally working remotely from site, while mainly working from our beautiful new office and lab in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver.

Compensation Package

Includes, but is not limited to:

Competitive salary

Paid vacation, plus an additional week of uninterrupted paid leave company-wide around the festive period annually

Up to $1,000 annually in personal development education matching

Professional dues reimbursement to maintain your PEng

Health benefits upon hire, with a bonus company-funded Health Spending Account provided upon probation completion

Employee gym, full kitchen, balcony, BBQ and underground parking available

Cross departmental training and twice monthly 'CEO Industry Sessions' to learn from our CEO directly

GRRSP matching up to 5%

Monthly staff socials

Complimentary staff gym

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Dental care Extended health care Life insurance On-site gym On-site parking Paid time off RRSP match Tuition reimbursement Vision care
Application question(s):

At the time of application, do you have the legal right to work in Canada for any employer? Some of our sites are in the USA. Please Google 'TN' visas and confirm if you are eligible. Note, don't worry if not! There are alternative sites and options to facilitate US visits if desired. Describe a time you were completing as a design process engineer before on a project in execution and/or describe a time where you have taken full responsibility for an element of the design. Describe some of the issues you ran into and how you addressed them. Dont forget, this position requires a PEng and 5-10 years of experience as a Process Engineer - do you have this?
Work Location: In person