Principal Process Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers, suppliers, and contractors; support proposals with execution strategies, cost estimates, proposal content, and presentations.
• Plan discipline budgets, schedules, staffing, and workloads; mentor and train staff and support employee performance reviews.
• Resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues; ensure work meets health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Provide specialist process engineering support, supervision, advice, and technical direction; participate in peer reviews.
• Ensure engineering work meets accepted practices, regulatory requirements, customer specifications, and applicable onshore and offshore practices.
• Plan project execution and coordinate scope, cost, schedule, staffing, changes, and corrective actions with project teams.
• Lead discipline meetings, monitor progress, and manage assignments and workloads to meet project schedules and budgets.
• Review data and prepare studies, analyses, calculations, recommendations, and final documents for customer approval.
• Establish and track discipline deliverables; lead detailed designs, drawings, specifications, calculations, reports, and milestone delivery.
• Support bid clarifications, bid evaluations, vendor reviews, and procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.
• Follow quality assurance and project management systems, monitor risks and opportunities, and promote safe working and HSE awareness.
• Communicate company strategy as team goals and collaborate across disciplines, projects, clients, and stakeholders.

Job-specific experience and qualifications

• Full-time bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university.
• At least 15 years of oil and gas design experience, including at least 5 years leading process engineers and designers.
• Senior-level oil and gas experience with extensive process engineering technical, practical, and leadership experience.
• Knowledge of ADEK sIP/sAP assurance processes, API-520, API-521, API-14C, API-14E, and statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of onshore and offshore process design practices for offshore oil and gas facilities.
• Experience with feasibility and conceptual engineering, field development, and adequacy studies.
• Experience processing highly sour production fluids and extensive offshore engineering experience.
• Experience with option selection studies, debottlenecking, revamp projects, and field development studies.
• Extensive knowledge of HYSYS, PROII, and FlareNet; dynamic simulation experience is advantageous.
• Pipeline modeling with OLGA, Pipesim, Pipeline Studio, Pipephase, or Pipenet is advantageous.
• Experience at a recognized front-end engineering consultancy is advantageous; CPEng status or progress toward it is advantageous.

Tools and technical capabilities

• Simulation tools include Aspen suite, HYSYS, FlareNet, and PRO-II.
• Flow assurance and pipeline tools include PipeNet, Pipesim, PVTSim/OLGA, PipePhase, TLNET, and Fathom.

Competencies and communication

• The role requires leadership, people management, coaching, mentoring, planning, scheduling, cost control, and conflict resolution capabilities.
• The role requires analytical problem solving, technical expertise, client focus, collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple projects and multidisciplinary teams.
• Good spoken and written English is required, including clear communication and presentation skills.
• The role requires initiative, continuous improvement, and the ability to work effectively in diverse teams.

Quality, safety, and company practices