Principal Process Engineer
Building on our past. Ready for the future
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.
Primary Objectives / Responsibilities
- Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
- Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers.
- Will be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal.
Business Operations
- Planning of man hour budgets, schedules, manpower loadings and staffing requirements, by skill and experience, to satisfy project requirements and direction given by the Discipline Manager.
- Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences.
- Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training.
- Assists in the employee performance review process.
- Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
- Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes.
- Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
- Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
Technical Competency
- Ensures team member adherence to accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
- Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
- Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
- Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
- Identifies software necessary to enable process discipline to function effectively.
- Ensures recognised onshore & offshore engineering practices applicable to process design are adopted within the discipline.
- Technical direction, advice and control of the process work.
Project Execution
- Participate in project execution strategy and planning.
- Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team to meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success.
- Encourages innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
- Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
- Collaborates with project team in review of project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets and schedules
- Leads weekly process discipline meetings, reviews progress reports and required checking procedures.
- Initiate, manage and supervise engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget.
- Organise and manage all aspects of the workload of a team of process discipline engineers and designers, within the parameters of a project schedule.
- Understands and applies the Project Execution Plan (PEP) requirements - make-up and application (including the Engineering Plan)
Project Deliverables
- Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommend actions.
- Crafts recommendations and reviews final documentation prior to customer approval.
- Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
- Establish a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
- Reviews final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. Ensure all Process engineering work on the projects assigned to him is carried out within established budgets and schedules
- Lead the production of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports
- Focuses team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.
Procurement Support
- Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes interdiscipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities.
- Provide advice during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.
Worley, Vision, Purpose & Values
- Understands and communicates Worley’ vision and strategy and translates the strategy into practical goals and objectives for people in his/her team
Quality Assurance
- Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.
- Work with project managers/project engineers to ensure all projects are set up and executed in full compliance with all the requirements of the Worley Project Management Process (WPMP) and General. Management System (EMS) using consistent approaches, Work Breakdown Structures, work methodologies and reporting systems.
- Monitors the closure of all identified risks and opportunities.
Safety
- Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understand and follow OH&S procedures • Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.
Job Specific Knowledge:
- Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment
- Extensive knowledge of ADEK, API Standards (API-520, API-521, API-14C, API-14E) and statutory and regulatory requirements and a good understanding of onshore and offshore engineering practices applicable to process design for offshore oil and gas facilities.
- Experience in various phases of project life cycle with particular skills in Feasibility and Conceptual Engineering, field development and adequacy studies of Onshore and Offshore Pipelines.
- Experience in managing teams in performing steady state and transient hydraulics and flow assurance aspects.
- Experience of Option Selection Studies and leading debottlenecking and revamp projects. Experience of Field Development Studies. Experience with a recognised front end engineering consultancy would be an advantage.
- Excellent report writing and communication skills.
- Extensive knowledge of process simulation packages such as HYSYS, PROII, Flarenet. Experience with dynamic simulation packages will be an advantage
- Extensive experience in pipeline modeling using OLGA, SPS, Pipesim, pipeline studio, Pipephase, Pipenet is an advantage.
Industry Specific Experience:
Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
IT Skills:
- Simulations
People Skills:
Moving forward together
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