Senior Process Engineer - Active Ingredients

About the role

FMC Agricultural Solutions is opening its new Technical Center in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in early 2027, bringing together Technical Center and R&D teams. As a Senior Process Engineer in the Active Ingredient (AI) Technical Center, you will support active agrochemical ingredients and intermediates from New Product Introduction through their commercial lifecycle, driving process innovations that improve capacity, safety, robustness, sustainability and cost competitiveness.

Key responsibilities

• Provide senior chemical engineering expertise and technical leadership across process development, scale-up and commercial manufacturing.
• Partner with chemistry teams to develop safe, scalable and cost-effective processes, leading scale-up from laboratory to commercial production.
• Lead process engineering and design, including process modelling, mass and energy balances, equipment requirements and capital project support.
• Drive technology innovation and step-change improvements to manufacturing efficiency, capacity and competitiveness.
• Lead engineering for technology transfer, site adaptation, commissioning and start-up at internal and external manufacturing sites.
• Champion process safety through PHA, HAZOP and LOPA and troubleshoot complex manufacturing challenges.
• Conduct techno-economic assessments, support manufacturing strategy and site selection, and give technical input to external manufacturing partnerships.

Required profile

• Master's degree in chemical engineering or equivalent; a PhD is an advantage.
• At least 10 years of relevant industrial experience in agrochemical, pharmaceutical, fine or specialty chemicals, in process development and/or manufacturing.
• Proven experience in process scale-up, process design, technology transfer and supporting commercial manufacturing.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Required skills

• Chemical engineering fundamentals: mass and energy balances, heat and mass transfer, reaction engineering and unit operations.
• Process safety management with practical experience in PHA, HAZOP and LOPA.
• Ability to turn laboratory and experimental data into commercial-scale process designs, with techno-economic assessment skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across chemistry, manufacturing, EHS, quality and engineering teams.