Senior Principal Process Engineer

Role purpose

Project and business responsibilities

• Support proposals with discipline execution strategies, estimates, written content, and customer presentations; may lead part or all of a proposal.
• Manage team resource coverage, mentor and train staff, support performance reviews, and resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
• Ensure team activities meet health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Coordinate discipline scope, cost, time, staffing, changes, corrective action, and quality with project teams.
• Enable studies, analyses, calculations, technical alternatives, recommendations, and complete project documentation.
• Support procurement specifications, data sheets, material requisitions, bid evaluations, and vendor information reviews.
• Participate in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews; resolve site issues and may support construction, commissioning, operations, or handover.

Essential qualifications and experience

• A four- or five-year technical degree in science or engineering; leadership and project execution training.
• Active licence with a local engineering governing body where required by law.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant discipline experience and 3+ years in project leadership.
• Strong knowledge of discipline work, regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry practices.
• Experience establishing discipline processes, monitoring teams, producing deliverables, project closeout, cost estimating, and proposal writing.
• Experience in risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution; adept at budgeting and cost control.

Abu Dhabi role-specific expertise

• SME-level expertise in NGL processing, gas treatment, and sulphur handling, including feasibility and conceptual studies, simulations, and economics.
• Experience specifying licensor processes, evaluating licensors, and integrating licensor designs into contractor engineering.
• SME-level expertise in adequacy studies, existing-facility assessment, upgrades, and modification implementation.
• Separation and gas compression expertise is preferable; hydrogen and ammonia production expertise is also preferable.
• Ability to lead large projects across multiple offices; excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Provide support to the Discipline Manager and help preserve the reputation of the Process Group.

Systems and tools

• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint; able to find and organize information according to prescribed formats and policies.
• Functional awareness of discipline tools and their relationship to analytics, modelling, and cross-discipline data methods.
• Microsoft Access and Visio are desirable; touch typing is also desirable.

Safety and people leadership

• Implement relevant company health, safety, and environmental requirements and promote safe, sustainable engineering across the asset lifecycle.
• Build effective business relationships, communicate clearly, listen actively, and encourage feedback.
• Work across teams and stakeholders, prioritize workloads, and help colleagues meet team goals.
• Break work into executable tasks, meet timelines, take accountability for quality, and address complex problems and interdependencies.

Desirable training

• Training in risk management or quality is desirable.

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