Senior Process Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by Morson Edge
£65 Per hour
Outside
Undetermined
Aberdeen
Summary: The Senior Process Engineer role focuses on the design of onshore Gas Processing Facilities, requiring extensive experience in engineering design projects. The position involves performing complex technical work, supervising others, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and safety regulations. The role also necessitates collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team and may involve part-time office attendance in Aberdeen and travel for business purposes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform own design work and supervise/check work by others in accordance with company and client standards.
- Represent Process Engineering in discussions and meetings with clients, vendors, and third parties.
- Understand and follow discipline programme activities/deliverables, interdependencies, and man-hour budgets.
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary project delivery team to integrate Process Engineering design requirements.
- Ensure compliance with company policy, legislation, and requirements for Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental matters.
- Attend the Aberdeen Office part-time by mutual agreement and travel to company, supplier, or client offices or sites as needed.
Key Skills:
- Knowledge of UK Regulatory environment and relevant industry codes, standards, and guidelines.
- Experience in the full project lifecycle, including FEED/EPC experience.
- Knowledge and experience in Gas Processing Technology and Process Simulation.
- Development of Process Design Basis, Heat and Material Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, and P&IDs.
- Sizing and specification of Process requirements for Unit Operations and Major Equipment.
- Hazard Study experience including HAZID and HAZOP.
- Functional Safety Management including SIL Classification using LOPA.
- Technical Risk Management and Commercial Awareness.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and technical writing skills.
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel.
- First degree in Chemical Engineering; Chartered Engineer preferred (MIChemE/FIChemE).
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the onshore oil and gas sector.
- Recognised SHE Competence Card (CCNSG or CSCS).
Salary (Rate): £65.00/hour
City: Aberdeen
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
The role requires the services of a Senior Process Engineer with knowledge and experience in the design of onshore Gas Processing Facilities to work on allocated engineering design projects and studies.
Role Dimensions - A Senior Process Engineer will be an experienced process engineer capable of performing complex technical work on major projects with limited supervision.
Duties
- To perform own design work and supervise and/or check work by others in accordance with company and client standards and procedures.
- To represent Process Engineering in discussions and meetings with client, vendors and third parties.
- To understand and follow discipline programme activities/deliverables, interdependencies, and man-hour budgets.
- To work in a collaborative multi-disciplinary project delivery team, through proactive liaison with other disciplines and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
- To ensure personal compliance with current company policy, relevant legislation and company and client’s requirements for Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental matters and work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and subcontractor employees or the environment.
- The role requires part-time attendance at the Aberdeen Office by mutual agreement and may require travel to company, supplier or client offices or sites for business purposes.
Specific Competencies Required
- UK Regulatory environment
- Relevant industry codes, standards and guidelines
- Experience in the full project lifecycle preferred including FEED/EPC experience.
- Knowledge and experience in Gas Processing Technology
- Process Simulation
- Development of the Process Design Basis and Scope of Work
- Development of Heat and Material Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, Process Design Philosophies and P&ID’s
- Sizing and specification of Process requirements for Unit Operations, Major Equipment Utility Equipment Equipment Packages
- Piping and Instrumentation
- Hazard Study including HAZID and HAZOP
- Functional Safety Management including SIL Classification using LOPA
- Relief and Blowdown calculations to company and industry standards
- Technical Risk Management
- Commercial Awareness
- Proactive, self-motivated and solutions biased
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective communicator
- Strong technical writing skills
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel
First degree in Chemical Engineering. Chartered Engineer preferred (MIChemE/FIChemE). The candidate should have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in the onshore oil and gas sector preferably in an engineering consultancy or contracting environment. Knowledge and experience of other relevant sectors is beneficial but not essential. Recognised SHE Competence Card (CCNSG or CSCS). Role can be outside of IR35