Senior Technical Professional Leader - Process

KBR; Surrey; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm is hiring a Senior Technical Professional Leader to oversee a team of process engineers in Surrey, Canada. Responsibilities include managing workhour budgets, providing project technical expertise, and ensuring high standards of engineering excellence. The ideal candidate will have a BSc in Chemical Engineering, strong communication, and organizational skills, with a significant background in major projects. The role allows for flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have experience communicating across multi-discipline teams.
• Understanding of requirements of other disciplines as part of project execution.
• Experience of workhour control on a major project.
• Good organizational skills are required.
• Understanding project safety requirements and international standards.
• Experience in leading a safety review process.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of process engineers while advising on project work.
• Lead the development of project concepts from client specifications.
• Monitor project scope and manage changes effectively.
• Ensure high standards of engineering excellence are maintained.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Project safety requirements understanding

Process control understanding

Practical design decision-making

Client communication

Change management

Education

BSc degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

Overview

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Senior Technical Professional Leader - Process

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

The role will have direct responsibility for the study, design, and specification of equipment, piping and instrumentation related to processing plants such as oil and gas production (onshore and offshore), LNG facilities, ammonia, ethylene, organic chemicals and refined products as well as working in projects in the energy transition field such as hydrogen and biofuels. Projects within KBR vary from small scale studies through to large EPC projects across a wide range of technologies and you could be expected to work on a diverse range of project phases across different process technologies.

As a senior technical leader, you will guide, mentor, and oversee a team of process engineers based in Baku. Your role will involve setting the technical direction for the group, fostering professional growth among junior engineers, and ensuring high standards of engineering excellence. You will also be responsible for planning, budgeting, organising, and managing the process team for large-scale projects.

The position is based in KBR’s Baku execution center. Flexible working can be discussed.

Job Responsibilities

• Managing a team of process engineers you will advise, and contribute to the following:
• Managing workhour budgets and resources on a project.
• Providing technical expertise to projects.
• Ensure project scope is understood and monitor change effectively
• Leading the development of concepts from client specifications.
• Adding value to the project through efficient management of time, resources and effective decision making.
• Supporting and producing deliverables to meet client and company expectations of quality.
• Review or support the production of process simulations to produce heat and material balances, process and utility flow diagrams, and process conceptual, FEED or EPC design deliverables.
• Liaison with licensors, other discipline engineers, project management and client.
• Support proposals and have an understanding of planning projects.

Skills / Experience

Essential

• Experience communicating across a multi-discipline team and across different offices.
• Understanding of requirements of other disciplines as part of project execution.
• Experience of workhour control and working to schedule and within budget on a major project.
• Good organizational skills
• Have an understanding of project safety requirements, international standards and implications on design
• Have a good understanding of process control and implementation in design
• Have the ability to make practical design decisions which add value to a design and minimize negative impact to other disciplines, schedule or cost
• Developing presentations and experience communicating with client team
• Understanding of development of proposals for new projects
• Must be able to drive quality within the process team and ensure high standards are met
• Experience taking a leading role in a safety review (HazOp/SIL/LOPA)
• Strong written communication skills and experience of writing technical reports.
• Self-motivated and a good communication skills to enable effective team working.
• Experience of working on conceptual, pre-FEED, FEED and/or EPC projects
• Act as a focal point for all key process engineering decisions and build a good relationship with client.
• Practical experience on a project of managing change

Desirable

• Experience managing a team of 10+ process engineers
• Experience managing a process manhour budget of >24000hours
• Experience training/mentoring younger engineers either informally or through a formal training scheme
• Experience presenting in formal settings
• Experience building relationships with licensors and clients

Qualifications

• BSc degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
• A relevant number of years' experience working with a major EPC contractor or operator.

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.