What if your next plant wasn't just built – but built to change an industry
At Without®, we've proven we can turn unrecyclable plastic into premium materials at pilot scale. Now we're building India's first commercial-scale MLP recycling facility – and we need someone who can take us from pilot learnings to commercial reality.
This isn't drawing P&IDs in isolation. It's owning the entire journey – equipment selection, mechanical practicality, commissioning, troubleshooting, and fail-safe operations. You'll translate what we've learned at pilot into a plant that actually runs.
If you've taken processes from paper to production – and stayed to fix what broke – we should talk.
What We Are Looking For
- Experience: 6-12 years in process engineering, with hands-on exposure to plant design, commissioning, and operations – ideally in chemicals, polymers, or recycling.
- Education: B.Tech/M.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Process Engineering.
- Pilot-to-Commercial Experience: You've scaled processes from pilot to commercial. You understand that what works at 100kg behaves differently at 10 tonnes – and you know how to bridge that gap.
- Process Fundamentals: Deep fluency in PFDs, P&IDs, mass/energy balances, process narratives, and control philosophies. You don't just draw diagrams – you defend every line.
- Equipment & Mechanical Sense: You select the right equipment (reactors, vessels, heat exchangers, pumps, compressors, filters, dryers) and understand how it actually behaves – clearances, wear, vibration, sealing, thermal expansion, maintenance access. You can guide mechanical design inputs: nozzle orientation, internals, agitation, baffles, metallurgy selection, and corrosion allowance.
- Troubleshooting Mindset: You don't hand off P&IDs and disappear. You stay through commissioning and operations, lead root cause investigations for trips and failures, and build practical fixes – instrument changes, control modifications, interlocks, equipment tweaks.
- Fail-Safe Thinking: You predict failure scenarios: what fails, what happens next, what protects us You drive HAZOP, relief/venting philosophy, ESD/interlocks, and alarms rationalisation. Learnings become engineering safeguards, not just reports.
- EPC & Vendor Management: You evaluate and select EPC partners and critical vendors. You hold them accountable on datasheets, sizing, GA drawings, and FAT/SAT readiness – without micromanaging. You ensure design aligns with pilot intent and commercial reliability.
- Bonus – Simulation & CFD: Experience with process simulation (steady-state/dynamic) for scale-up, equipment sizing, and debottlenecking. Working knowledge of CFD for reactor/mixing performance, dead zones, and distribution risks.
- Startup Mentality: Comfortable with ambiguity, resource constraints, and building from scratch.
- Purpose-Driven: You want to build something that matters – not just another plant.
- Location: Willing to spend considerable time in Pune, India – this is not a remote role.
What You'll Do
- Pilot-to-Commercial Design Ownership: Translate pilot plant PFDs/P&IDs and operating learnings into robust commercial process design. Lead development and validation of PFDs, P&IDs, mass and energy balances, process narratives, and control philosophies.
- Equipment Selection & Mechanical Guidance: Select the right equipment for commercial scale. Review and guide mechanical design inputs – nozzle orientation, man-ways, internals, agitation/mixing, supports, lining, and metallurgy.
- P&ID Leadership & Troubleshooting: Own P&IDs from design through commissioning and operations. Lead root cause investigations for trips, quality deviations, and process upsets. Build practical fixes that stick.
- Safety & Fail-Safe Design: Drive safety studies (HAZOP, LOPA/SIL where applicable), relief/venting philosophy, ESD/interlocks, and hazardous area considerations. Convert learnings into engineering safeguards.
- EPC & Vendor Technical Authority: Evaluate and select EPC partners and critical vendors. Review deliverables, hold vendors accountable, and ensure commercial reliability without losing pilot intent.
- Simulation Support (Bonus): Use process simulation for scale-up validation, utilities planning, control strategy, and debottlenecking. Apply CFD where relevant for reactor/mixing and heat-transfer performance.
Your Compensation
- An annual Cost-to-Company (CTC) between INR 15-30 Lakhs, based on experience and market standards.
- Stock Options (ESOPS) in the legal entity that vests over an agreed-to tenure.
- A 3-month mutual incubation period. Both you and we will have the option to end the agreement after three months if it isn't working out.
- We provide benefits such as health insurance, flexible work hours (including unmonitored vacation) and Provident Fund contributions.
- We believe in keeping the organisational structure as flat as possible, where nobody really reports to anybody, but instead, we try and hold each other accountable for outcomes and processes.
