Process Engineer III
Green Plains · Cedar Rapids, IA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Process
- Travel
- 30%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior process role at Green Plains (chemicals) in Cedar Rapids, IA. Is highly accountable, trustworthy and can collaborate effectively to support FQTs strategy.
- They ask for
- 15+ years · degree required
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 30% travel
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Process Engineer roles in Iowa: typical posted base $71k–$107k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 15 process engineer openings in Iowa, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Iowa plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 14 other live process postings in Iowa.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 5+)
Typical $71k–$107k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 27%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Process team at Green Plains
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Send a short, curious note
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- The posting says about 30% travel. Between which sites?
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If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: Green Plains in Cedar Rapids
2 other open roles at this site.
- Process Engineer II · Process
- Senior Process Engineer · Process · Senior
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requirements
and best practices
- ✓Demonstrates a thorough understanding of FQT Process Engineering deliverables across the FEL process, ensuring alignment with project needs
- ✓Prepares Design Base Engineering Reports and client presentations, demonstrating technical expertise, attention to detail, and high-quality work
- ✓Leads client presentations of engineering deliverables, communicating technical details clearly. Works within the team to resolve complex issues
- ✓Independently sizes equipment, piping, instrumentation, and valves (manual, automated, relief), ensuring precise technical specifications of high quality
- ✓Independently prepares Engineering Deliverables: Design Basis, Mass & Energy Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, P&IDs, Equipment Layouts, Engineering Lists, and Project Estimates.
- ✓Independently contributes to process startup, demonstrating proficiency in startup procedures, troubleshooting skills, and ensuring accurate execution of startup tasks.
- ✓Accurately prepares process control philosophies, functional descriptions, SOPs, and training documents, maintaining high quality and speed.
- ✓Precisely performs process calculations and modeling in Excel and ChemCAD for large-scale projects, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
- ✓Demonstrates proficiency in integrating Engineering practices into FQT projects, ensuring smooth progression through the FEL stages
- ✓Develops plant trials, incorporate findings into engineering deliverables, including patents, to progress FQT technologies and validate new solutions
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related field
- ✓Passed FE and PE (Professional Engineering) preferred
- ✓6-15 years of practical engineering experience
- ✓Strong understanding of process engineering principles, mass and energy balances, and system/equipment sizing
requirements
vary significantly by project. While the average travel expectation is roughly 30%, certain projects may require up to 100% travel and could involve shift work
- ✓Valid driver’s license required
Fluid Quip Technologies® offers competitive pay: a generous benefit package including business casual work environment, health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO) and a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting and company safe harbor matching. All potential employees of Green Plains Inc. will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening and background check prior to employment.
Green Plains and Fluid Quip do not provide immigration-related employment sponsorship for new hires (for example, H-1B, F-1 OPT, TN, or other work visas). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and be able to maintain ongoing work authorization without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements
listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
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Summary: The Process Engineer 3 (PE3) independently executes process engineering activities for FQT’s technologies. This role encompasses managing engineering tasks from project conception through detailed engineering, commissioning, system start-up, and plant optimization. The PE3 is expected to demonstrate advanced engineering expertise and play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of FQT’s engineering projects and technologies.
Relationships
- •Initiates and develops long-term client partnerships, gathering feedback from current clients and laying the groundwork for lasting relationships
- •Demonstrates a strong understanding of FQT departments, leveraging them to deliver excellence. Mentors less experienced engineers and identifies individual training needs, providing technical advice
Process Engineering
- •Demonstrates in-depth understanding of FQT’s technologies, engineering standards, and specifications, ensuring strict adherence to technical
Safety and Quality
- •Demonstrates the ability to lead while participating in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP) to identify potential hazards in design
- •Demonstrates commitment to quality, ensuring deliverables meet QA/QC standards
Project Management
- •Manages cost estimation and budgeting for engineering tasks with accuracy
- •Independently manages deliverable timelines, ensuring adherence to project schedules
- •Manages team interactions effectively, providing informal guidance to junior team members
Skills
- •Utilizes problem solving skills to identify challenges, generating solutions and implement solutions
- •Is trusted by the team and has the knowledge and confidence to clearly conveys ideas and more importantly concerns to keep projects on track
- •Brings the team together to win. Is highly accountable, trustworthy and can collaborate effectively to support FQTs strategy
- •Demonstrates strong leadership skills of Communication, Influence, Integrity, Decision-Making, Empathy, and Adaptability within the engineering team and FQT
Characteristics
- •Consistently demonstrates an optimistic view for good in every situation, is open to new ideas and feedback, and has the resilience to bounce back from setbacks. Appreciates others' viewpoints and is confident in your own abilities
- •Brings enthusiastic, vigor and focus to the workplace every day, maintains momentum and is highly adaptable, especially during challenging times
- •Consistently accomplishes complex goals with attention to detail an perseverance. Is highly accountable for individual and team results, whether they are successes or failures
- •Consistently demonstrates high initiative and eagerness to learn; actively seeks out opportunities to contribute to the team
Technical
Work Environment/Physical Demands
- •Travel