About the Role
This role entails ensuring that company and statutory requirements are met while addressing applicable engineering standards in process design for all Purchase Orders and Programmes. The successful candidate will maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant industry standards, ensuring project designs are compliant with current requirements, and ensure the technical integrity of process engineering deliverables through rigorous checking, verification, and design review activities. A proactive understanding of safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle is essential, alongside managing actions from Project Reviews and Value Improvement Practices (VIPs). Individuals in this position will design innovative technical approaches to process engineering challenges and contribute to continuous business improvement initiatives.
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Primary Responsibilities
- Ensure company and statutory requirements are identified and addressed in process design.
- Maintain industry standards knowledge to ensure project compliance.
- Ensure technical integrity through checking, verification, and design review activities.
- Understand safety hazards and risks associated with the designed product or process.
- Address actions from Project Reviews and VIPs promptly.
- Develop and design innovative technical approaches to process challenges.
- Communicate key design decisions with safety impacts to project teams and document appropriately.
- Drive continuous improvement in project delivery through simplification, standardization, and automation, while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
Specific Accountabilities
- Promote Zero Harm Behaviour within the team.
- Plan execution of process discipline activities to adhere to project schedules.
- Maintain quality and consistency within the discipline.
- Provide technical direction and supervision for engineering activities.
- Resolve technical issues within the discipline.
- Prepare man-hour estimates for proposals and develop deliverables lists.
- Deliver design deliverables within approved man-hour budgets.
- Manage discipline resources collaboratively with the Project Engineering Manager.
- Identify software requirements and select appropriate design tools.
- Assess training and development needs for discipline personnel.
- Perform or delegate checking of deliverables.
- Report progress and updates for project reporting.
- Identify and report potential project variances.
- Maintain lessons learned registers.
- Conduct or delegate site visits as necessary.
- Manage interfaces within the discipline and with third-party contractors.
- Collaborate with procurement and construction teams.
- Coordinate change control and technical query processes within the discipline.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Minimum 20 years of experience in Brownfield Oil & Gas Process Design and Engineering.
- Professional experience as a Process Engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) through to execution, commissioning, and start-up.
- Proven experience in process design, process simulation, heat and material balance calculations, process optimization, and safety engineering.
- At least 10-12 years of leadership experience in multidisciplinary project delivery teams.
- Experience in the Middle East is an advantage.
- Proven experience with front-end engineering, project execution, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- Strong project management background.
- Demonstrable experience managing EPCM projects.
Required Competencies
- Bachelor's Degree in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent.
- Professional Engineering status or equivalent professional registration.
- Strong leadership skills and personal drive to meet deadlines and targets.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in multidisciplinary team environments.
- Ability to manage and work in a multicultural environment.
- Strong commitment to HSSE leadership with experience managing HSSE throughout all project phases.
- Expertise in process design, optimization, safety studies, and engineering specifications.
Moving Forward Together
We prioritize a values-inspired culture that promotes belonging, connection, and innovation. Our goal is to build a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We are actively reskilling our employees and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and contribute to delivering sustainable change.
