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Job Purpose and Impact

Location This role can be based in Netherlands (Bergen op Zoom or Schiphol) Belgium (Vilvoorde) 

The Senior Research Engineer will actively engage and lead discussions with client domain experts, operations teams, and other research functions to gain direct insights on complex facility and process questions regarding material flow, energy flow, utilization, sustainability, and bottlenecks. In this role, you will develop and implement complex simulation and optimization models designed to identify opportunities and address challenges on making our manufacturing and supply chains more efficient and effective. You will be collaborating for project planning, model development and validation, deployment, and long-term support of the solutions. You will have the opportunity to travel to Cargill locations and work on different processes partnering with a diverse group of people. 

Key Accountabilities

• Develop, validate, and deploy complex simulation and optimization models to drive strategic and tactical decisions.
• Apply various modeling techniques to generate solutions to complex technical challenges such as throughput increase, yield improvement, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas reduction using flowsheet-level models and/or detailed unit operation models. 
• Partner with internal stakeholders and project managers to transform business requirements into a business solution.
• Communicate actionable insights to the leadership. Document assumptions, calculations, and results.
• Independently manage complex technical issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Support development of standard models, tools, and templates for future use cases.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field.
• Four or more years of related work experience.
• Demonstrated industry experience with chemical process modeling and simulation.
• Demonstrated industry experience developing process simulation models and proposing process improvement solutions leveraging at least one of the related commercial software tools like Aspen Plus, Aspen Custom Modeler, gPROMS or similar.
• Experience in object-oriented programming frameworks (for example, Python, Java, C++, or C#).

Preferred Qualifications
• Master's degree or PhD in chemical engineering, process engineering, process systems engineering or a related field.
• Experience developing simulation and optimization models leveraging commercial software tools.
• Demonstrated industry experience developing first-principles chemical engineering models and numerical analysis for energy efficiency, chemical kinetics, separation technologies, fermentation, or metabolic modeling.
• Specialized experience developing models in one or more of the following: steady-state simulation, dynamic simulation, detailed unit operation models, flowsheet optimization or discrete event simulation. #LI-VB2

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.