Passivation Process EngineerLocation: Hyderabad - factory based
Vacancy: 1
Experience: 5-8 years of relevant hands-on experience
Qualification: BE/BTech in Chemical Engineering, MSc Chemistry, or Mechanical Engineering with substantial SS cleaning and passivation experience.
Reports to: Production & Plant Qualification Manager; process acceptance controlled by QA
Role purposeDevelop, qualify and operate the complete SFN spool cleaning process: pre-cleaning, citric-acid passivation, rinsing, flushing, drying, nitrogen preservation and transfer to clean packing.
Key responsibilities- Develop procedures aligned with applicable ASTM A380/A967 and customer requirements.
- Establish chemical concentration, temperature, exposure time, bath monitoring and replacement criteria.
- Qualify CIP equipment, circulation arrangements, filters and wetted-contact materials.
- Verify that each batch configuration achieves the required flow and process conditions.
- Establish rinse-water controls, sampling and acceptance checks with the laboratory technician.
- Coordinate passivation efficacy and lot-acceptance testing with QA and external laboratories.
- Qualify drying using measured dew-point endpoints and approved nitrogen preservation procedures.
- Establish batch records linking process results to individual spools.
- Train operators in chemical preparation, equipment operation and contamination prevention.
- Coordinate chemical safety, utilities and effluent handling with EHS and maintenance.
Preferred industriesStainless-steel cleaning/passivation services, pharma purified-water/WFI systems, biotech or food-equipment manufacturing, and hygienic process-skid manufacturing.
Essential evidencePersonally executed and documented stainless-steel passivation and final-cleanliness verification. General water-treatment or routine CIP-operation experience alone is insufficient.
Initial deliverablesQualified process recipes and batch configurations, accepted cleaning/passivation trials, drying and preservation procedures, and trained operators.