Senior Environmental Engineer - Plant Operations

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 246,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

ADNOC Abu Dhabi UAE is seeking a Senior Environmental Engineer - Plant Operations to provide technical leadership across environmental management and day-to-day process operations. The role monitors emissions, flaring, liquid effluents, waste streams, air quality, noise, and other indicators while ensuring deviations are investigated and corrective actions implemented.

It supports plant reliability through performance analysis, troubleshooting, shutdown planning, incident investigation, HAZOP

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or similar.
• Strong experience in environmental monitoring and emissions management.
• Experience with HAZOP, incident investigation, and environmental compliance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor emissions, flaring, effluents, and waste to report deviations.
• Ensure ISO 14001 compliance and implement EMS improvements.
• Coordinate with maintenance, engineering, and HSE teams during outages and projects.
• Lead environmental data analysis, reporting, and environmental performance reviews.
• Provide expert advice on environmental risks and waste management practices.

Skills

Environmental management

ISO 14001

Emissions monitoring

HAZOP

Plant operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical/ Petrochemical/ Mechanical Engineering

Tools

ASPEN HYSYS

Job description

Role Context

The Senior Environmental Engineer - Plant Operations provides technical leadership across environmental management and day-to-day process operations. The position monitors emissions, flaring, liquid effluents, waste streams, air quality, noise, and other environmental indicators while ensuring that deviations are investigated and practical corrective actions are implemented. Beyond environmental compliance, the role supports plant reliability through performance analysis, process troubleshooting, shutdown planning, incident investigation, HAZOP studies, operational readiness, and coordination with maintenance, engineering, process specialists, vendors, and external stakeholders. This combination makes the position central to reducing environmental impact without compromising safe and continuous plant operation.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi Emirate
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Environmental Health & Safety Services
Salary: 22000-32000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Role Context (Expanded)

The Senior Environmental Engineer - Plant Operations provides technical leadership across environmental management and day-to-day process operations. The position monitors emissions, flaring, liquid effluents, waste streams, air quality, noise, and other environmental indicators while ensuring that deviations are investigated and practical corrective actions are implemented. Beyond environmental compliance, the role supports plant reliability through performance analysis, process troubleshooting, shutdown planning, incident investigation, HAZOP studies, operational readiness, and coordination with maintenance, engineering, process specialists, vendors, and external stakeholders. This combination makes the position central to reducing environmental impact without compromising safe and continuous plant operation.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor daily plant discharges including flaring, atmospheric emissions, and liquid effluent releases and report deviations with corrective recommendations.
• Evaluate plant environmental performance against approved limits, operating procedures, environmental requirements, and management objectives.
• Implement and maintain environmental management system requirements in accordance with ISO 14001 standards.
• Provide professional advice on environmental risks involving air emissions, noise, hazardous materials, waste, effluent quality, and other operational impacts.
• Establish and review methods for calculating and quantifying flaring and atmospheric emissions.
• Support development of measurement systems, monitoring tools, databases, and software used for emissions and flaring performance tracking.
• Review environmental data generated for daily, monthly, and annual reporting and verify its accuracy before management submission.
• Plan and coordinate ambient air quality monitoring and source emission testing programs.
• Identify significant airborne contaminants and recommend appropriate sampling methods, instrumentation, and monitoring equipment.
• Supervise environmental sampling activities and train field personnel in proper environmental monitoring and protection practices.
• Contribute technical input to environmental plans, annual budgets, scopes of work, and improvement programs.
• Support preparation of sustainability reports by providing verified environmental performance information and operational data.
• Advise operating departments on hazardous and non-hazardous waste management practices and prepare annual waste projections.
• Coordinate with relevant departments to improve waste segregation, storage, handling, transport, treatment, and disposal activities.
• Provide technical guidance on effluent treatment, sampling, laboratory analysis, and discharge quality requirements.
• Review operating processes and plant performance to identify environmental or reliability issues requiring corrective engineering action.
• Lead or participate in HAZOP studies, HSE reviews, integrity assessments, technical risk studies, and operational evaluations.
• Review plant trip analyses, process incidents, operational failures, and investigation reports to identify underlying causes.
• Recommend corrective and preventive actions following operational incidents, environmental deviations, or recurring process problems.
• Coordinate operations support during major plant shutdowns and overhauls, including shutdown preparation, catalyst replacement, equipment inspections, and restart activities.
• Contribute operational input to overhaul reports and assist plant teams during start-up and stabilization following major maintenance.
• Liaise with internal and external operating organizations regarding gas supply, technical interfaces, operating constraints, and related process matters.
• Coordinate with Process Engineering teams, specialist consultants, licensors, and vendors when addressing complex or recurring plant issues.
• Review daily flaring profiles and develop practical actions to minimize unnecessary hydrocarbon flaring.
• Assess project packages, implementation schedules, technical changes, and expenditure phasing from an operations and environmental perspective.
• Identify plant improvement opportunities that can improve operating cost, equipment availability, process reliability, and environmental performance.
• Conduct plant performance analysis and support failure investigations affecting process units and critical operating systems.
• Advise Maintenance, Engineering, and other technical divisions on complex operational and environmental matters.
• Participate as a subject matter expert in technical assessment and GAP analysis panels used for employee development or promotion evaluations.
• Coordinate work activities across assigned plant areas to maintain alignment between operations, maintenance, engineering, and HSE teams.
• Assist shift teams during emergency situations in accordance with approved Emergency Response Procedures, including safe plant isolation and restoration.
• Monitor operating units and equipment condition with particular attention to safe performance, emissions reduction, and flaring minimization.
• Guide shift operating crews in applying HSE management systems, processes, controls, and safe operating practices.
• Promote HSE awareness and ensure operating activities conducted by internal teams and contractors meet established safety expectations.
• Monitor compliance with operational and asset management systems including AIPS, HSECES, RCM, DGS, MOC, and associated documentation requirements.
• Review shortcomings identified through management systems and ensure follow-up actions are properly documented and closed.
• Support effective use of Connected Worker Systems and initiate corrective actions based on field monitoring information.
• Participate in employee performance reviews, technical interviews, competency assessments, and development activities.
• Maintain detailed operational logs covering significant plant conditions, environmental events, abnormalities, decisions, and corrective actions.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering, Petrochemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent recognized engineering discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience within oil refining, gas processing, petrochemical, or comparable continuous-process operations.
• At least 3 years of experience in a senior supervisory capacity.
• Strong practical experience with Distributed Control Systems and complex process plant operations.
• Thorough understanding of operating instructions, standing procedures, plant limitations, and emergency requirements for assigned process areas.
• Experience in environmental monitoring, emissions management, flaring control, effluent management, and industrial waste practices.
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 environmental management systems and associated compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical capability for investigating plant performance, failures, environmental deviations, and process abnormalities.
• Experience participating in HAZOP, HAZID, risk assessments, root cause investigations, integrity reviews, and operational safety studies.
• Proven ability to coordinate shutdowns, overhauls, start-ups, and major operational support activities.
• Good IT capability for environmental data analysis, technical reporting, monitoring systems, and operational applications.
• Strong communication and coordination skills for working with operations, maintenance, engineering, HSE teams, consultants, vendors, and external stakeholders.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Lead Auditor certification for ISO 50001 or ISO-BMS is preferred where applicable.
• Advanced Process Simulation or Modelling capability using ASPEN HYSYS is advantageous.
• Certified HAZOP Leader qualification is desirable.
• RCA or SIL Facilitator certification is advantageous.
• Additional certification in decision making, risk analysis, HAZOP, or HAZID is beneficial.

Skills Set

• Environmental management
• ISO 14001
• Environmental compliance
• Air quality monitoring
• Emissions monitoring
• Flaring analysis
• Flaring reduction
• Effluent management
• Effluent sampling
• Industrial waste management
• Hazardous waste management
• Environmental reporting
• Sustainability reporting
• Environmental auditing
• Environmental inspections
• Noise monitoring
• Emission source testing
• Environmental sampling
• Process operations
• DCS control systems
• Plant performance analysis
• Process troubleshooting
• Plant reliability
• HAZOP
• HAZID
• Root cause analysis
• SIL assessment
• Risk analysis
• Incident investigation
• Emergency response
• Shutdown planning
• Plant overhaul support
• Start-up assistance
• ASPEN HYSYS
• Management of Change
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Operational HSE
• Connected Worker Systems
• Process safety
• Technical reporting
• Operational improvement

Why Join Us

This role provides experienced engineering professionals with a rare combination of environmental leadership and senior process operations responsibility within Abu Dhabi's Oil and Energy sector. It offers exposure to emissions reduction, flaring optimization, ISO management systems, gas processing operations, plant reliability, major shutdowns, process safety studies, and advanced operational improvement programs. The position is particularly valuable for professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in sustainable industrial operations while remaining closely involved with plant performance, process decision-making, operational risk management, and reliability improvement across complex energy facilities.

About the Company

ADNOC Group operates major upstream, gas processing, refining, petrochemical, and energy facilities across Abu Dhabi. Its operations integrate environmental management, process safety, emissions reduction, asset reliability, and advanced engineering practices to maintain dependable production while supporting increasingly efficient and sustainable energy operations.