Senior Process Engineer

Spirit Energy; Scotland; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company seeks a Senior Process Engineer for its Aberdeen office, responsible for overseeing process safety and integrity across various assets. Applicants should possess a degree in Process or Chemical Engineering and be chartered with IChemE. This role involves collaborative team efforts to enhance operational efficiency and ensure compliance with industry standards within a supportive culture focused on innovation and development.

Benefits

Health initiatives and benefits

Career development opportunities

Work/life balance support

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of codes and regulations (UK, NL, EU).
• Experience in process engineering for offshore and onshore facilities.
• Expertise in safety practices and legislation for major hazard prevention.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard integrity across offshore and onshore assets.
• Provide process engineering support for projects and modifications.
• Collaborate with teams to improve safety and efficiency.

Skills

Offshore Certification

Process Engineering

Regulatory Knowledge

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Safety Awareness

Education

Process or Chemical Engineering Degree

Chartered with IChemE

Job description

HAVE YOU GOT SPIRIT?

Succeeding in today's energy world means always seeking new and better ways of working. At Spirit Energy we are open to hearing all ideas and believe the voices of our teams have value. Upholding our values at all times to ensure we are giving our teams space to thrive and room to grow. At Spirit, there are always opportunities for development that add value both to our colleagues and to our projects.

Our Aberdeen office finds success through a social and workplace culture in which we promote a positive work/life balance through a series of health initiatives, benefits, and career development opportunities. If you are ready to take the next step in your career with an innovative and energetic team, then we want to hear from you.

THE OPPORTUNITY - SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER CONTRACT POSITION

• Acts to safeguard, support and assure the Asset Integrity, Design Integrity, Operations Integrity and Process Safety across all Spirit Energy Offshore and Onshore Assets (UK & NL).
• Act as independent evaluator of Process Engineering changes and risks to ensure safe and effective delivery
• Provides Process Engineering support to and assurance of the delivery of capital projects and minor modifications under the Management of Change Procedures
• Provides Process Engineering support for process plant performance, identify areas for improvement, undertake trials and studies and suggesting the most economic option for future advances, across all Spirit Energy assets
• Provide day to day support to offshore and/or onshore assets as primary focal point for Process Engineering when it is required.

BASE: Aberdeen Office with Site visits required

CONTRACT LENGTH: One Year

DAY RATE: TBC depending on experience

AND NOW FOR THE TECHNICAL BIT...

Once in role, you will be accountable for:

• Responsibility for key process documents, such as PFD's and P&ID's, and support to other discipline key documents such as C&E's, A&T's etc.
• Collaborate with other discipline TA's, Facility Engineers, Asset Integrity, HSE and Production Support teams etc to deliver business objectives
• Provide day to day operations support to offshore and/or onshore assets as primary focal point for Process Engineering meeting the operational demands of the asset as set by the operations manager
• Identify and develop work scopes that enhance strategic objectives, including safety & environmental performance, efficiency performance and reliability/availability of all process systems, especially safety systems that minimise risk and eliminate potential hazards.
• Support asset risk register process, providing support into the process of managing and mitigating risks to production, safety, and the environment.
• Challenge the effectiveness of current operational practices, to stimulate innovative ideas to improve safety and efficiency.
• Manage process design delivery for the asset and manage contractor delivery against those designs
• Proactively support and participate in process safety incident and equipment failure investigations Develop and manage relationships with the operations and maintenance teams as well as with core contractors.

• Close working relationship with contractors providing asset specific knowledge and quality assurance/quality control: including reviewing calculations, philosophies, and designs.
• Holding engineering service providers accountable for high quality deliverables
• Active participation in reviews and in risk and hazard assessment activities with the ability to resolve problems in a range of contexts from risk assessments to physical changes to plant
• Oversight over operational risk assessments, evaluating and endorsing deviations against standards and normal plant operational activities

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate will have a process or chemical engineering degree and be chartered with the IChemE. You will have all offshore certification, BOSIET, MIST and Offshore Medical. You will have the ability to travel to our offshore assets in UK and NL as well as our Barrow onshore Terminal.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Deep and extensive knowledge of relevant codes, standards, and applicable regulations both statutory and company specific including UK, NL and EU regulations.
• Experience of providing process engineering support to upstream and mid-stream processing facilities.
• Experience of providing process engineering support to front-line operation of a major offshore production facility and/or onshore gas processing facility
• Significant and extensive knowledge of Process and Major Accident Hazard (MAH) prevention technical practices and legislation (for offshore and onshore), which would be underpinned by technical achievements in process engineering discipline in the energy or chemical industry
• Demonstrable experience of operations within complex Oil/Gas, Petrochemical, or Chemical plant
• Knowledge of all forms of engineering documentation, including block diagrams, PFDs, P&IDs, Cause & Effect charts, and safety critical elements
• Great communication skills that inform/share knowledge clearly and unambiguously and implements and embeds change. Builds rapport and can influence in a constructive way / skilled at influencing decision makers on complex topics.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively, within their team and across the organisation and externally as required.
• Networks effectively internally and externally, creating an immediate, positive, and credible impression on others. Leads other parties in conversations on the important issues and use persuasive contributions to influence change and action.

In addition to technical knowledge and credibility, we are searching for a someone who lives our values of Agility, Collaboration, Courage, Care and Delivery, enables and supports change and brings fresh and dynamic thinking.

But we're not just about energy, we're about Spirit

At Spirit Energy we believe that embracing inclusion, diversity, and equality allows for better collaboration and innovation. Therefore, we seek talent from every avenue, and offer flexible and part time working to support our colleagues personal development and promotion. Offering our teams competitive benefits and opportunities of development and skill building, we believe that our colleagues can shape the future of the UK Energy Sector. If you're excited to shape the future of energy then apply today!
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