Job Description:
 
NES Fircroft are partnering with a global resources client who are looking for a PRINCIPAL PROCESS ENGINEER to join the Perth based team on an ongoing contract
 
The Role:
 
Perth based role Monday to Friday 8 hours per day ( occasional site travel required )
 
Functionally reporting to the Manager Standards and Technical, the Principal Discipline Engineer is a Perth based role providing SME (subject matter expert) technical support to projects each with a value of US$30 - 250 million. The Manager Standards and Technical and Area Engineering Managers will provide line management and project support as required.
As a member of the Project Owners Team, you will work across a number of port and mine projects, working closely with the Project Engineers who have overall engineering responsibility for their respective projects. The projects are typically at different stages from concept to detailed design and execution.
The role will extend into the project delivery (EXE phase) and handover phases where occasional site travel (Pilbara Region) may be required. Throughout the project delivery (EXE) and handover phases, the Principal Discipline Engineer will be required to support and address project delivery (construction and commissioning) engineering issues.
 
Core Accountabilities:

• Provides SME input into the Basis of Design (BoD), Process Design Criteria (PDC) and Scopes of Work (SoW).
• Provides technical governance by reviewing Engineering Service Provider (ESP) design deliverables to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
• Proactively identifies the following and suggest solutions & improvements (within their respective discipline):
  • Design performance & quality issues
  • Constructability, operability and maintainability issues
  • Value add opportunities
  • Works closely and directly with ESP counterparts from concept through to detailed design
• Challenges ESP and internal stakeholder thinking to ensure designs are lean and fit for purpose
• Contributes to risk reviews and design reviews
• Ensures the review of project design deliverables are prioritised to be consistent with overall project priorities
• Supports tender submission reviews

• Provide SME expertise in the Sustainability in Design process e.g. HSECCOMS – Health Safety Environment Community Constructability, Operability and Maintainability reviews, HAZIDs and HAZOPs
• Collaborates with Commissioning and Construction to ensure that engineering is developed to be able to support commissioning and construction methodologies, strategies and systems.
• Support Ops readiness by providing engineering related data in order to enable the effective handover and transition to Operations.
• Support the technical development of lesser experienced engineers.

 
The Requirements:
 
Ideally, the Principal Discipline Engineer has

• Tertiary qualification within fields such as Engineering Science, Metallurgical, Chemical or Mineral Processing Engineering.
• Project design experience within the consulting, mining or heavy industry working for owners/operators and/or engineering consultancies.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all Australian Codes & associated Design Manuals
• Significant technical proficiency across process engineering discipline across lifecycle (study, design, installation, commissioning, operation).
• Proven experience in Iron Ore processing plants including design, interpretation of test work results, plant layouts, process design criteria, trade-off studies and developing process flow diagrams.
• Experience in planning, developing and managing metallurgical testwork programs of significant scale.
• Relationship management capability inclusive of successfully influencing and leading successful change in a challenging and complex environment.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen as well as managing technical risk and governance for successful delivery of projects safely, on time and on budget.
• Ability to critically review designs and work proactively and collaboratively with external consultants

 
 
 
 
The Benefits:

• Opportunity to work for a leading Owner Miner on an ongoing contract
• Perth Based and home every night.
• Highly competitive pay rate - dependent on experience

 
Please apply now!

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.