Title:
Technical Professional Leader - Process

Responsibilities:

Leading or working within a team of process engineers you will advise, and contribute to the following:

• Leading a team either within a large project or for smaller projects
• Control manhours and budget and ensure process work is completed in line with the project schedule
• Approval, checking or support the production of:
  • process simulations to produce heat and material balances,
  • process and utility flow diagrams,
  • piping and instrument diagrams,
  • calculations for the design or rating of equipment and apparatus such as heat exchangers, vessels, reactors, etc. and to develop system design parameters.
  • process hydraulic calculations for pump and line sizing
  • piping and instrument data to support downstream disciplines
• Leading the development of concepts from client specifications
• Supporting and producing technical and techno-economic studies
• Responsible for the development of advanced controls/process optimization
• Liaison with other disciplines, project management and client

Skills / Experience:

Essential

• Experience leading a team of more than 10 process engineers.
• Experience communicating across a multi-discipline team and across different offices.
• Understanding of requirements of other disciplines as part of project execution.
• Experience of workhour control and working to schedule and within budget on a major project.
• Good organizational skills
• Develop presentations and experience communicating with client team
• Understanding of development of proposals for new projects
• Must drive quality within the process team and ensure high standards are met in terms of consistency and checking of deliverables
• Clear understanding of complex equipment sizing calculations and have experience specifying equipment
• Experience of complex relief valve sizing cases and preparation of calculations
• Experience of vessel and exchanger specification and sizing
• Experience taking a leading role in a safety review (HazOp / SIL / LOPA)
• Experience of developing hydraulic calculations for complex circuits
• Good understanding of process control and experience developing/checking cause and effect diagrams
• Strong written communication skills and experience of writing technical reports.
• Self-motivated and good communication skills to enable effective team working.
• Flexibility to work across a number of different technologies.

Desirable

• Experience building simulation models in Hysys / Promax or similar simulation tool for complex simulations and ability to explain / train younger engineers
• Experience of working on conceptual studies
• Experience training / mentoring younger engineers either informally or through a formal training scheme
• Has attained chartership status / equivalent with a recognized institution

Qualifications:

• BSc degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
• 15+ years' experience working with a major EPC contractor or operator.