Senior Process Engineer Frontier (Pocatello, ID)
Simplot · Pocatello, ID
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Process
- Travel
- 40%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 90+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 7 days ago
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A senior process role at Simplot (industrial) in Pocatello, ID.
- They ask for
- 90+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause
- Day to day
- about 40% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Process Engineer roles in Idaho: typical posted base $89k–$134k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 19 process engineer openings in Idaho, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Idaho plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 18 other live process postings in Idaho.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (90+ vs 8+)
Typical $89k–$134k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 37%
- Team leadership 21%
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Typical Education
- ✓Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or related technical discipline.
Relevant Experience
- ✓Minimum 10 years of experience in sulfuric acid production or closely related heavy chemical manufac
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Senior Process Engineer Frontier (Pocatello, ID)
For more than 90 years, Simplot Company has grown as a family-owned, privately held global food and agriculture company. Our diverse businesses span agriculture, food production, manufacturing, mining, plant and animal sciences, ranching and cattle production, logistics, and transportation, connecting many of the essential steps that bring food from the earth to communities around the world.
That diversity creates strength, stability, and opportunity. Across our global business, employees can build new skills, explore different career paths, and contribute to meaningful work in a culture where safety is foundational.
Whatever your role, your work at Simplot contributes to something bigger. Join us to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape the future of food and agriculture.
Summary
The Senior Process Engineer - Sulfuric Acid, serves as the subject matter expert for sulfuric acid production within the Simplot Mining & Manufacturing Division. This position provides technical leadership and strategic support for sulfur burning, conversion, absorption, acid handling, steam generation, and emissions control systems across the organization. The primary responsibility is the development, implementation, and support of optimization, reliability, environmental, and process safety strategies that improve plant performance while ensuring safe and sustainable operations. The role works closely with operations, maintenance, reliability, environmental, and capital project teams to maximize throughput, energy efficiency, equipment reliability, and environmental compliance.
Technical Leadership
- •Serve as the division's technical authority for sulfuric acid production processes, including sulfur combustion, gas conversion, absorption systems, acid circulation, and associated utility systems.
- •Develop and implement best practices for sulfuric acid production, handling, storage, and distribution across Mining & Manufacturing operations.
- •Provide technical leadership during plant upsets, complex troubleshooting events, and major reliability issues.
- •Mentor and develop process engineers and operations personnel.
Process Optimization & Reliability
- •Evaluate process performance and identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, throughput, energy efficiency, and product quality.
- •Lead process optimization initiatives involving converter performance, acid plant energy recovery, steam systems, emissions reduction, and sulfur utilization efficiency.
- •Monitor and evaluate key process metrics including sulfur conversion efficiency, SO₂/SO₃ emissions, acid strength, steam generation, and overall plant capability.
- •Develop and support reliability improvement strategies for critical process equipment.
- •Process Safety & Environmental Compliance
Process Safety & Environmental Compliance
- •Provide technical leadership and support for Process Safety Management (PSM) activities, including:
- •Process Hazard Analyses (PHA)
- •Management of Change (MOC)
- •Incident Investigations
- •Process Safety Information (PSI)
- •Operating Procedure Development
- •Participate in root cause analyses and incident investigations.
- •Support environmental permitting, compliance, and regulatory initiatives.
- •Develop strategies to improve environmental performance and reduce plant emissions.
Capital Projects & Debottlenecking
- •Lead process engineering support for capital projects, debottlenecking initiatives, and major maintenance efforts.
- •Provide technical oversight for process design deliverables including:
- •Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs)
- •Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
- •Heat and Material Balances
- •Equipment Specifications
- •Control Narratives
- •Operating Procedures
- •Support project definition, detailed design, startup, commissioning, and performance testing activities.
Operations Support
- •Provide day-to-day technical support to operations and maintenance personnel.
- •Support turnaround planning and execution activities.
- •Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
- •Collaborate with site leadership to establish long-term operating and reliability strategies.