Process Engineer - Plant Optimization

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE; Al Ruways Industrial City; On-site; AED 245,520 - 357,120; Full time

Job summary

ADNOC Group in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates invites a Process Engineer – Plant Optimization (Full‑time) to lead process engineering studies, site optimization, and advanced control initiatives across operating units. The role emphasizes energy efficiency, reliability, and safety, with responsibilities spanning data analysis, performance reporting, and optimization.

Ideal candidate has at least six years in process or design engineering in large organizations, with HAZOP/HAZID/SIL

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Petroleum, Process, or Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum six years of experience in process engineering or design within a large organization.
• Experience in oil, gas, refining, or petrochemicals is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform process engineering duties for operating plant units.
• Conduct site-level studies and prepare detailed technical reports.
• Analyze process data, laboratory results, and operating data to identify deviations.
• Develop and implement practical actions to improve safety, reliability, and performance.

Skills

Process engineering

Plant optimization

Data analysis

Familiar with HAZOP/HAZID

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Petroleum, Process or Industrial Engineering

Tools

HYSYS

HTRI

PI System

LIMS

CPIMS

Job description

Job Overview

Process Engineer – Plant Optimization (Full‑time). Located in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, this role spans the Oil & Energy industry and is focused on process engineering studies, operational troubleshooting, plant performance monitoring, process safety support, advanced control, and site‑level optimization. The position requires applying engineering analysis, simulation models, performance testing, and process monitoring tools to enhance plant reliability, energy efficiency, throughput, safety, and profitability. Key contextual details include:

• Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
• Industry: Oil & Energy
• Function: Process
• Salary range: 22,000 – 32,000 UAE Dirhams per month (final offer to be confirmed by employer)
• Requirements: Minimum 6 years of experience in process or design engineering within a large organization

Key Responsibilities

• Perform process engineering duties for operating plant units.
• Conduct site‑level studies and prepare detailed technical reports.
• Analyze laboratory test reports, standard log sheets, production data, and daily operating reports.
• Monitor the status and performance of process engineering activities.
• Identify abnormal operating conditions, process deviations, and emerging performance issues.
• Recommend practical corrective actions to restore stable and efficient operation.
• Collect monthly production, operating, energy, and chemical consumption data.
• Evaluate unit efficiency and compare actual performance against targets and design expectations.
• Prepare detailed monthly performance reports for management review.
• Highlight production losses, energy inefficiencies, excessive chemical use, and other operating concerns.
• Support decision‑making through accurate interpretation of technical and operating data.
• Study technical modifications required to support changes in production plans.
• Assess process implications arising from changes in feedstock composition, quality, or availability.
• Recommend operating or design changes that maintain production performance under varying conditions.
• Review the impact of proposed modifications on safety, reliability, product quality, and operating cost.
• Organize and coordinate plant performance test runs.
• Define test objectives, operating conditions, measurement requirements, and evaluation methods.
• Analyze test results to determine unit capability, efficiency, and performance limitations.
• Establish optimum operating parameters for equipment and process units.
• Identify process bottlenecks that restrict throughput or increase operating cost.
• Recommend debottlenecking, control, or equipment modification opportunities.
• Participate in Hazard and Operability studies for proposed plant modifications.
• Support Hazard Identification and Safety Integrity Level assessment activities.
• Provide process engineering input on deviations, safeguards, control requirements, and operating risks.
• Review and follow up actions arising from HAZOP, HAZID, and SIL workshops.
• Ensure process safety recommendations are technically practical and properly implemented.
• Develop tools for plant process monitoring, analysis, and performance reporting.
• Build or improve models for yield prediction and operating performance evaluation.
• Apply computer simulation tools to analyze plant behavior and optimization opportunities.
• Use advanced engineering techniques to determine optimum operating conditions.
• Validate simulation outputs against actual plant data and operating experience.
• Maintain and improve process models as plant conditions or configurations change.
• Participate in root cause analysis studies following process upsets, trips, losses, or incidents.
• Collect and evaluate operating evidence, trends, alarms, laboratory results, and equipment data.
• Identify underlying process, control, operational, or design causes.
• Prepare clear technical investigation reports.
• Develop corrective actions and practical mitigation plans.
• Monitor implementation and effectiveness of agreed recommendations.
• Participate in risk assessments for proposed modifications and operational changes.
• Evaluate process hazards, operating limits, failure scenarios, and control measures.
• Provide technical recommendations that support safe and reliable implementation.
• Assist Instrumentation, Maintenance, Inspection, Operations, and Engineering teams as required.
• Provide process data, operating limits, performance calculations, and technical interpretation.
• Support troubleshooting of equipment and systems where process conditions affect performance.
• Coordinate technical solutions involving several engineering disciplines.
• Provide process engineering support for the plant Alarm Management System.
• Participate in alarm rationalization workshops and technical review meetings.
• Review alarm purpose, priority, limits, response requirements, and potential consequences.
• Support updates to the Master Alarm Database.
• Identify nuisance, standing, duplicated, or poorly configured alarms.
• Recommend alarm improvements that strengthen operator awareness and response.
• Support implementation and effective use of Advanced Process Control.
• Monitor APC performance and identify opportunities for tuning, revamping, or wider application.
• Evaluate controller behavior, constraint management, optimization objectives, and economic benefits.
• Work with operations, control engineers, and vendors to improve APC utilization.
• Confirm that advanced control applications remain aligned with process and business objectives.
• Support the Control Loop Performance Monitoring system.
• Review loop performance, variability, tuning quality, valve behavior, and control effectiveness.
• Identify poorly performing Distributed Control System controllers.
• Recommend corrective actions involving tuning, instrumentation, maintenance, or process design.
• Monitor whether improvements deliver stable and effective control.
• Provide process engineering support for Real Time Optimization.
• Support design, engineering, implementation, maintenance, and effective use of RTO applications.
• Review optimization objectives, constraints, models, data quality, and economic assumptions.
• Coordinate with operations, technology teams, and software vendors.
• Ensure RTO recommendations are practical, safe, and aligned with plant capability.
• Monitor realized benefits from real‑time optimization initiatives.
• Support automation, monitoring, and reporting of process safety performance indicators.
• Define process safety KPI data requirements, calculation methods, and reporting logic.
• Improve visibility of operating envelope exceedances, alarm performance, and safety‑critical conditions.
• Support accurate and timely management reporting.
• Provide process engineering support to projects from conceptual development through implementation.
• Review design concepts, technical studies, engineering deliverables, and proposed operating philosophies.
• Participate in design reviews, project meetings, and technical evaluations.
• Ensure projects reflect actual operating requirements, process safety standards, and maintainability needs.
• Support commissioning, start‑up, performance testing, and project hand‑over where required.
• Review process engineering documents, drawings, specifications, and design calculations.
• Check process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, equipment data, and control narratives.
• Confirm technical correctness and compliance with approved standards.
• Provide comments, identify inconsistencies, and follow up required corrections.
• Review plant modifications and improvement studies.
• Evaluate their technical feasibility, expected performance, cost implications, and operational risks.
• Conduct site‑level feasibility and optimization studies.
• Compare alternative technical solutions and recommend cost‑efficient options.
• Quantify expected improvements in throughput, yield, energy use, reliability, or operating cost.
• Prepare recommendations that support management investment decisions.
• Monitor unit‑level energy performance.
• Analyze fuel, power, steam, cooling, heating, and other utility consumption.
• Identify deterioration or unusual energy trends.
• Recommend operational, control, maintenance, or project actions to improve energy efficiency.
• Track performance after implementation and confirm whether expected savings are achieved.
• Review project deliverables for new and ongoing major projects.
• Assess process design, capacity, control, safety, operability, and integration with existing facilities.
• Provide technical feedback during Pre‑FEED, FEED, detailed engineering, and implementation stages.
• Ensure lessons learned and plant operating experience are incorporated into project designs.
• Prepare analytical reports, process studies, performance summaries, and management presentations.
• Maintain accurate calculations, assumptions, operating records, and technical documentation.
• Organize and prioritize assigned engineering activities.
• Coordinate studies, reviews, testing, and follow‑up actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure work is completed accurately and within agreed timelines.
• Apply applicable process engineering codes, standards, and HSE requirements.
• Support continuous improvement in technical methods, reporting tools, and process monitoring practices.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Petroleum, Process, or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent).
• Minimum six years of experience in process engineering or design engineering within a large organization.
• Prior experience in oil and gas, gas processing, refining, petrochemicals, or a similar process industry.
• Strong knowledge of gas extraction and processing unit operations.
• Practical experience analyzing plant production, process, laboratory, and operating data.
• Ability to diagnose process problems and recommend corrective actions.
• Experience conducting plant performance tests, optimization studies, and debottlenecking assessments.
• Strong working knowledge of process calculations and performance monitoring programs.
• Experience preparing process equipment specifications.
• Proficiency in process flow diagram and piping and instrumentation diagram development and review.
• Working knowledge of HYSYS, HTRI, PI, LIMS, or comparable engineering and plant information tools.
• Familiarity with Corporate Plant Information Management Systems or similar performance monitoring platforms.
• Experience participating in HAZOP, HAZID, SIL, and process risk assessment studies.
• Working knowledge of Alarm Management Systems and alarm rationalization.
• Familiarity with Advanced Process Control applications.
• Knowledge of Control Loop Performance Monitoring and Distributed Control System controller performance.
• Working knowledge of Real Time Optimization applications and high‑end process software.
• Experience supporting automation and reporting of process safety KPIs.
• Ability to support projects from conceptual design through implementation and start‑up.
• Strong understanding of process engineering codes, standards, and recognized industry practices.
• Experience with root cause analysis and incident investigation.
• Strong technical report writing and analytical presentation skills.
• Knowledge of HSE procedures and process safety requirements.
• Strong planning, organizing, coordinating, checking, examining, and recording skills.
• Ability to work effectively with operations, maintenance, instrumentation, inspection, project, and vendor teams.
• High attention to technical detail, data quality, and operational risk.
• Strong commitment to plant reliability, energy efficiency, process safety, and business profitability.

Skills Set

• Process / Process engineering / Plant optimization / Gas processing
• Process troubleshooting / Process monitoring / Production data analysis
• Laboratory data analysis / Unit efficiency analysis / Energy performance
• Chemical consumption analysis / Performance test runs / Process debottlenecking
• Yield prediction / Process simulation / HYSYS / HTRI
• PI System / LIMS / CPIMS / Process calculations / PFD development
• P and ID review / Equipment specifications / HAZOP / HAZID / SIL studies
• Process risk assessment / Root cause analysis / Incident investigation
• Alarm Management System / Alarm rationalization / Master Alarm Database
• Advanced Process Control / Control Loop Performance Monitoring / Distributed Control System
• Real Time Optimization / Process safety KPIs
• Feasibility studies / Optimization studies / Project engineering support
• Pre-FEED / FEED / Commissioning support / Technical reporting
• Energy efficiency / Process safety / Continuous improvement

Why Join Us

This opportunity provides broad responsibility for process performance, operational troubleshooting, advanced control, process safety, and plant optimization within Abu Dhabi Emirate’s established Oil and Energy sector. The role directly influences production efficiency, energy consumption, process reliability, operating cost, and business profitability. The successful candidate will gain exposure to live plant operations, process simulation, HAZOP and SIL studies, advanced control systems, Real Time Optimization, major projects, and multidisciplinary technical support. The position offers a clear pathway toward senior process engineering, technical services leadership, plant optimization, or process safety management roles.

About the Company

ADNOC Group is a major integrated energy organization headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Its operations span exploration, production, gas processing, refining, petrochemicals, logistics, trading, and lower‑carbon energy solutions. Industrial facilities use advanced process engineering, digital monitoring, process control, rigorous safety studies, continuous optimization, and strong safety culture to maintain reliable operations, improve energy efficiency, strengthen profitability, and support responsible long‑term energy production.