Lead/Senior Process Engineer

Asset Recruitment; Dublin, Cork; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Asset Recruitment is seeking a Lead/Senior Process Engineer for a 12‑month contract in Dublin or Cork with hybrid working. The role focuses on coordinating and supervising process design, providing technical leadership across the project lifecycle.

Key duties include applying design criteria, creating and reviewing flow diagrams, developing equipment datasheets, and defining the control philosophy to meet safety and operability goals.

Qualifications

• Experience leading process design on large-scale projects.
• Knowledge of process design criteria and standards.
• Ability to coordinate with licensors and other disciplines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Applies process design criteria and contract requirements across design work.
• Prepares flow diagrams and reviews them with other disciplines.
• Develops equipment datasheets and process specifications.
• Establishes control philosophy for complex systems, ensuring safety objectives.
• Performs calculations and studies to support system design and operability.

Skills

Process design

Leadership

Project coordination

Flow diagrams

Equipment datasheets

Control philosophy

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Job description

Ref. 1411

Lead/Senior Process Engineer

Our client is a leading global engineering and consultancy company delivering projects across Life Sciences, Semiconductors and other high-tech industries.

They are seeking an experienced Lead/Senior Process Engineers for a 12-month contract position in Dublin or Cork, with hybrid working available.

The Lead/Senior Process Engineer will coordinate and supervise the development of process design providing guidance and technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Process Design Basis

Applies process design criteria, guidelines and contract requirements to process design work.
May be responsible for interacting with licensors, including establishing design basis and license or evaluation.
Applies process design criteria and guidelines to all phases of process engineering.

Flow Diagrams

Prepares flow diagrams and participates in flow diagram reviews.
Understands the importance of the flow diagram as a communication tool to other disciplines.
Is able to prepare and review flow diagrams with total information to correspond to the flow sequence, operability and the safety of the unit/system.
Answers questions, with confidence, from other disciplines and clients as to the requirement/function of each item on the flow sheet.
Back checks, updates, and ensures consistency with related design documents such as specification sheets and with other units.
Prepares and reviews metallurgy flow diagrams.
Equipment Datasheets
Prepares process and utility equipment specification sheets. May be responsible for design of a system or a complete unit.
Understands importance of the equipment specification sheet as a communication tool with other disciplines.
Prepares equipment duty specifications for all equipment including complex equipment such as reactors.
Prepares detail design specification for all equipment.
Reviews input from other disciplines for compatibility with process design for all equipment.

Control Philosophy

Prepares instrumentation process data. Assists in establishing control philosophy for relatively complex control systems to meet process objectives, including safety.
Prepares control valves process data, relief valve data, analyzer data.
Interprets control philosophy of relatively complex control systems.
Reviews control systems specification sheets for consistency with process data
Reviews logic diagrams for relatively simple loops.
Evaluates alternative control strategies to meet process objectives.

Calculations

Performs specifications/calculations and technical studies.
Completes conceptual developments of a major system and performs all necessary calculations for process design of systems and equipment within the assigned area.
Performs relatively complex technical studies under general supervision.
Ensures that calculations are legible, well organized, correctly references as to equipment/system, dated and signed.
Equipment Selection/Review

Reviews and approves equipment bid tabulations and vendor data.
Expeditiously reviews equipment requests for quotes, purchase requests, bid tabulations and vendor data for conformance to specifications, process compatibility, safety and operability.
Ensures consistency of vendor data with other design documents such as flow diagrams, area classifications drawings, utility summaries, etc

Plant Safety/Operability

Responsible for performing various process engineering work functions in a manner that will provide a safe and operable plant
Understands obligations and authority to make appropriate design decisions necessary for plant safety and operability.
Identifies potentially lethal/toxic substances and designs the systems handling those substances in accordance with established the company and the clients procedures.
Reviews the unit/plant layout for unsafe piping/equipment arrangement and for adequate access to critical valves.
Assists in specification of any required safety systems (eye-washers, safety-showers, gas detectors, etc).