Principal Technical Safety Engineer

PD&MS Group; Aberdeen City, Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Optimus Plus is seeking an experienced Principal Process Engineer to join our Engineering Team in a full-time or PAYE contractor role. Flexible hybrid work with 2 days remote; offices in Aberdeen or Glasgow. Excellent salary and benefits.

You will lead process design, deliver consultancy studies, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and liaise with clients. A degree in a relevant subject and substantial oil and gas process engineering experience are required; Autodesk tools experience is

Qualifications

• Significant oil and gas process engineering experience.
• Experience delivering consultancy studies and engineering projects.
• Strong process design and process safety knowledge.
• Ability to lead and technically assure a process engineering scope.

Responsibilities

• Identify the scope of work required.
• Input to project plans.
• Identify areas of concern during any project or study.
• Produce cost-effective engineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value.
• Address operational and maintenance issues in the design and liaise with colleagues for the best solution.
• Exercise technical authority and autonomy in all engineering activities.

Skills

Oil & gas engineering

Process design

Autodesk tools

Project leadership

Client liaison

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Tools

Autodesk software

Job description

About The Role

Optimus Plus are now looking for an experienced Principal Process Engineer to join our Engineering Team on a full-time employee or PAYE Contractor basis. This role can be based in our Aberdeen or Glasgow office on a flexible hybrid working model where 2 days per week can be worked remotely. An excallent salary + benefits package is available for the sucessful candidate.

Key duties:

• Identify the scope of work required
• Input to project plans
• Identify areas of concern during any project or study
• Produce cost- effective engineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value
• Ability to address operational and maintenance issues in the design and liaise with colleagues for the best solution
• Exercise technical authority and autonomy in all engineering activities

About You

Our ideal candidate will enjoy team working, will be customer and quality focused, can use their own initiative and will be responsive to our business and client needs. We’d like you to have a degree in a relevant subject and significant previous experience in detail design with an understanding of other disciplines. You need to have experience and an interest in working with AutoDesk products and have exposure to people management and development.

Experience / Competence:

• Significant previous oil and gas process engineering experience
• Demonstrable experience delivering consultancy studies and engineering projects.
• Strong process design and process safety knowledge.
• Ability to lead and technically assure a process engineering scope.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and engaging directly with clients.
• Ability to support project estimates, resource planning, proposals and commercial delivery.
• Experience in Flare Recovery, Decommissioning, Hydrogen and Carbon Capture (preferred).

About Us

We are all about practical delivery. Our expert engineering solutions are always tailored, pragmatic, credible and fit for purpose. That is the Optimus way.

Optimus is an integrated, multi-discipline engineering design, project delivery and consultancy organisation. Founded in 1999, the business began as a consultancy with a headcount of just four. In the intervening years, Optimus has grown into a highly respected international engineering consultancy with almost 100 employees working for clients worldwide.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.