Junior Process Engineer

Prime Energy; Muntinlupa; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Energy is seeking an experienced Process Engineer to provide frontline operational support for offshore and onshore facilities, ensuring safety, reliability, and cost-effective performance.

The role covers Brownfield/Greenfield projects, MoCs, and Continuous Improvement while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders and contracting for services. A strong chemical engineering background and 4+ years in oil and gas are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and membership in a professional body is preferred.
• At least 4 years’ process engineering experience in oil and gas (design, commissioning, operations).
• Knowledge of process safety, modeling, analysis, design, controls, utilities and wells.

Responsibilities

• Provide continuous process engineering support for offshore/onshore facilities and own technical studies.
• Support brownfield/greenfield projects, MoCs, deferrals, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage contracts for Integrated Laboratory Services, ensuring HSSE compliance and budget alignment.
• Propose innovative engineering technologies to reduce operating costs and optimize production.
• Build process engineering competencies toward TA3 status and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Process engineering

Oil and gas

Stakeholder management

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering

Job description

• Provides timely and high-quality engineering solutions to ensure continuous and safe operability of the Prime Energy facilities in a cost-effective manner.
• Provides technical advice and guidance on process-engineering related matters to internal and external stakeholders.

THE ROLE

• Provide continuous and timely support to Site Operations at Prime Energy facilities and to other internal and external stakeholders, with regards to process engineering and product quality issues and concerns, including coordination with external specialists to conduct studies that may be required to support Process Engineering deliverables, and performing technical / operational surveillance utilizing the Prime Energy operating envelopes.
• Provide process engineering input to and support execution of Major and Minor Modification Projects (Brownfield and Greenfield), requests for MoC's and Deferrals, and Continuous Improvement initiatives, ensuring that concepts are rigorously challenged, technical standards are met, environmental limits are complied with, and asset integrity is maintained.
• Perform duties as Contract Holder for Prime Energy contracts for Integrated Laboratory Services; including definition of work scope and technical requirements, end-to-end management of the contract including compliance with HSSE requirements, assurance that spend against ACV and budget are as per plan, and coordination with different business stakeholders who will be using the contract in order to control usage versus plan.
• Propose the use of innovative engineering technologies, identify and own production optimization opportunities, and implement cost-effective solutions to reduce unit operating costs.
• Build process engineering competencies in order to attain TA3 status.
• Foster and maintain healthy working relationships of Process Engineering team with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate a culture of authenticity, cooperation and mutual growth.

Special Challenges/Complexity Unique to the Job:

• Process Engineering team needs to balance two-fold main responsibilities:
• Provide process engineering Frontline Operations Support from well-bore to point of sale, and
• Provide process engineering technical expertise in terms of input and assurance of brownfield and greenfield projects.
• Complex offshore and onshore production facilities, most of which are aging (> 20 years).
• Management of multiple interfaces with internal and external stakeholders, including Operations, Engineering & Projects, Production Services, Development & Exploration, Commercial, HSSE, Finance and Supply Chain teams, service and design contractors, consultants, partners and customers.

Working conditions:

Work location is office-based with occasional visits to the offshore and onshore plants as required to provide process engineering support to site activities. Site visits have associated risk of exposure to H2S, Benzene, Mercury, noise and heat. Offshore plant visits are to a Shallow Water Platform in the middle of the West Philippine Sea, accessible only by helicopter or supply boat.

THE INDIVIDUAL

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, preferably with membership in a professional engineering body (e.g. Board of Engineers, Institute of Chemical Engineers, etc.).
• At least 4 years’ process engineering experience in the oil and gas industry (preferably in design, commissioning, and operations support).
• Awareness to Knowledge level in Process Engineering Regulations, Codes and Industry Standards
• Knowledge to Skill level in Process Safety, Process Modeling & Analysis, Process Engineering Design, Process Control, Process Operations Support, Utilities, Flow Assurance, and Wells, Reservoir & Facilities Management