Cement Process Engineer

Location: Pueblo, CO

Salary: $125,000–$140,000 + 12.5% Bonus + Relocation Assistance ($15k)

About the Company

We are a long-established leader in heavy industrial manufacturing with multiple high-hazard production facilities across the central and western United States. Our operations support large-scale construction and infrastructure markets, and we're known for strong performance, steady growth, and a deeply rooted commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Employees stay because the culture is stable, collaborative, and built around long-term success.

About the Role

The Process Engineer plays a key role in improving manufacturing performance, optimizing production systems, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives at a large-scale industrial facility. This position works closely with operations, maintenance, quality, environmental, and engineering teams to identify opportunities that increase efficiency, reliability, safety, and overall plant performance.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, analyzing data, and driving measurable improvements across manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify opportunities to improve safety, production, reliability, and efficiency

• Analyze process data and develop recommendations to optimize equipment and system performance

• Lead and participate in process audits focused on major production systems and plant operations

• Perform energy and material balance calculations to identify process improvement opportunities

• Support implementation of continuous improvement initiatives across manufacturing operations

• Benchmark production processes and manufacturing performance against industry best practices

• Research new technologies, equipment, and operating techniques that can improve plant performance

• Partner with operations, maintenance, quality, and engineering teams to troubleshoot process challenges

• Assist with process equipment evaluations and support capital project planning efforts

• Participate in root cause analysis activities and develop sustainable corrective actions

• Support optimization of raw materials, fuels, utilities, and production processes

• Contribute to performance reporting, process monitoring, and operational improvement initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline

• 2+ years of engineering experience within cement manufacturing (experience with rotary kiln manufacturing is a plus)

• Experience supporting process optimization, manufacturing improvement, or continuous improvement initiatives

• Exposure to thermal processing, large-scale manufacturing equipment, or continuous production environments preferred

• Experience in cement, mining, aggregates, minerals processing, lime, metals, chemicals, paper, or similar industrial operations is a plus