• Lead the design, development, and integration of bulk and slurry material handling systems, including conveyors, augers, bucket elevators, box chain conveyors, feeders, rotary valves/locks, knife gates, piston pumps, silos, and related transfer equipment. • Provide expertise in the selection, sizing, and design of rotary and conveying components (bearings, shafts, seals, drives, couplings, gearboxes, structural supports). • Specify and evaluate separation equipment such as fiber screens, centrifuges, and belt presses to support solids/liquid handling requirements. • Develop and manage CAD models, layouts, and fabrication drawings for custom industrial material handling and slurry-handling equipment. • Perform advanced engineering analyses, including load, torque, wear, vibration, fatigue, and bulk flow calculations to validate equipment performance. • Specify and integrate motors, gear drives, and power transmission systems for continuous-duty operations. • Collaborate with process engineers to integrate slurry and separation technologies into complete system designs, ensuring reliability and maintainability in continuous-duty applications. • Oversee prototype fabrication, vendor builds, field installation, and commissioning of material handling equipment. • Drive root cause analysis and design improvements for equipment reliability, downtime reduction, and lifecycle cost optimization. • Evaluate and qualify suppliers, vendors, and components, ensuring compliance with relevant industrial standards (ASME, CEMA, API, ANSI). • Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior engineers and designers • Develop and implement engineering processes and tools to improve team efficiency, quality, and execution • Serve as a trusted technical resource for urgent, high-priority, and high-visibility engineering initiatives, executing independently with minimal oversight • Maintain reliable attendance, arriving on time and ready to contribute