Senior Principal Process Engineer

General Purpose of Role Provides discipline team supervision on projects by directing project execution activities and discipline deliverable creation for one large or several smaller projects. Accountable for the safe/sustainable engineering, quality, cost and schedule delivery of all work by the discipline. Completes discipline technical work for projects, as time permits. Senior level position with advanced knowledge and a specialized depth or breadth of expertise, gaining a mastery of multiple broader areas of specialty, product, and systems. May include team leadership role as well as project and discipline related administrative responsibilities. Key Accountabilities Business Development Support Assists business development activities by maintaining an up to date personal profile and resume. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors. Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead all or part of a proposal. Business Operations Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to the Discipline Manager. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training. Assists in the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes. Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements. Technical Competency Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings. Project Execution Participates in project execution strategy and planning. Knows the project and owns the discipline scope/cost/time requirements, makes certain the team meets expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success. Drives innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Owns management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives and participates in squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required. Project Deliverables Enables data gathering and the preparation of engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc. Assists with recommendations and helps create final documentation. Ensures technical issues are defined with alternate solutions, pros/cons established for multiple solutions, and recommendations made through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc. Ensures final documentation incorporates all relevant information and customer approval is obtained. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports. Procurement Support Ensures relevant information is incorporated into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions. Enables bid clarifications, bid evaluations, inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and other certification activities. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports. Site Support Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering/design. Works with site personnel to resolve issues. May create plans or documents that supports construction, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, or decommissioning. May provide or lead on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turn over. Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Essential) Awarded a 4 or 5 year technical degree in science or engineering. Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local engineering governing body where required by law. Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Desirable) Training in risk management or quality. Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential) Typically has 15+ years of relevant discipline experience and 3+ years in project leadership. Has a strong background in discipline work, and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices. Well versed in discipline setup, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project closeout. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Experience in risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution. Adept at budgeting and cost control. Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable) Additional specific role requirements for Abu Dhabi are: SME level expertise in NGL Processing, gas treatment processes and sulphur handling is essential including ability to perform feasibility and conceptual engineering studies, simulations and economics. Experience of specification of licensor processes and evaluation of licensors is essential. Experience of integrating licensor designs into contractor's engineering is essential. SME level expertise in adequacy studies, assessment of existing facilities, defining upgrades and implementation of modifications. SME level expertise in separation and gas compression is preferable SME level expertise in Hydrogen and Ammonia Production is preferable. Ability to Lead large projects across multiple offices. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Provide support to Discipline Manager in discipline tasks and preserving the reputation of the Process Group.