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Process Engineer

Intrepid Potash · Denver, Colorado, US

The Process Engineer provides hands-on technical leadership and process engineering support across site operations, with a focus on improving process stabili...

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The Process Engineer provides hands-on technical leadership and process engineering support across site operations, with a focus on improving process stability, recovery, throughput, and overall operational performance. This role blends plant-level troubleshooting with strategic optimization, requiring both a big-picture systems-level perspective and strong field engagement. The position supports end-to-end production from feed through final product generation and contributes to continuous improvement, capital projects, and process standardization. The Process Engineer plays a key role in advancing data‑driven and digitally enabled process optimization across operations to drive sustained performance improvements. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Provide process engineering and metallurgical support to site operations, including real‑time troubleshooting of plant variability, losses, and production constraints - Partner with operations supervisors and operators to resolve process, product quality, and throughput issues across flotation, DMS, dewatering, and granulation circuits - Identify, evaluate, and implement process improvements to increase recovery, throughput, uptime,...