Process Engineer in Midlothian

Our client, an oil and gas operator, is currently hiring a Process Engineer to join the team in Aberdeen.

Purpose of Role:

• The primary purpose of this position is to provide discipline engineering support to UK operations to ensure equipment integrity and regularity.
• This role supports breakdowns, delivers the maintenance plan in accordance with maintenance strategy, supports plant optimisation and provides input to modifications and projects where required.

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and HSES Procedures.
• Supports SECE degradation / threat management risk assessments and maintenance deferment risk assessments.
• Responsible for monitoring equipment/system performance, initiating and ensuring corrective actions.
• Responsible for discipline engineering and maintenance support to UK operations.

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required.

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Assess and develop potential engineering workscopes with the aim of providing process safety, environmental, reliability and production enhancements.
• Develop and review detailed calculations, process engineering datasheets, process simulation models and drawings to satisfy the process engineering requirements of the assets.
• Assist in completion of process safety reviews e.g. HAZOP and LOPA and when required, close out actions from such reviews.
• Provide technical support to offshore operations teams when requested.
• Assist in challenging the technical content, engineering performance and cost of modification projects.
• Review vendor workpacks to ensure compliance with performance standard requirements.
• Raise TWMs where complex technical solutions and modifications are required.
• Support management of change for non like-for-like scopes.
• Participate in Research and Development projects where required.
• Mobilise offshore as and when required by business.
• The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position.

Critical Skills, Qualifications, Experience, etc.:

• Educated to engineering degree level or satisfactory equivalent e.g. HND/HNC plus preferable qualifications/experience and/or vocational certificates.
• Membership of professional body working towards Chartership preferred.
• Operational and engineering experience preferred.
• Developing relevant technical experience.
• Offshore experience.
• Understanding of processes required to meet HSE objectives. Fully conversant with UK regulatory environment.
• Developing understanding of Corporate and Local budget, maintenance and project management processes and tools.
• Self-driven. Strong personal leadership and drive toward teamwork. Ability to perform effectively within a strong peer group and to drive toward optimal business solutions.
• Good communicating, influencing, negotiating and networking skills. Builds excellent relationships. Respected internally and externally.
• Developing drive for continuous improvement and to instigate and make change happen.
• Acceptance of ambitious, yet realistic goals and targets, and drive to consistently achieve these.