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Senior Process Engineer

COSTAIN GROUPGreater Manchester, UK

13 days ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Job Description

Costain provides engineering services to the Energy, Water, Transport, Nuclear and Defence sectors. The Process Engineering Discipline primarily works on Energy Transition; Energy Resilience and Municipal Wastewater Treatment projects across the full engineering project lifecycle including Feasibility, Concept, FEED and EPC / EPCm Detailed Design project phases

We are seeking to recruit Senior Process Engineers to work on projects and studies in the Energy & Nuclear sectors across the project lifecycle including Feasibility, Concept, FEED and Detailed Design to help solve our customer's challenges in energy production, energy transition and environmental management.

A Senior Process Engineer will be an experienced process engineer capable of performing complex technical work on major projects with limited supervision. The role reports to the Discipline Lead – Process Engineering.

The role is based at the Costain Manchester Office with an expectation of office-based working for at least two days per week - our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual preferences and subject to role requirements and team needs. Short-term / notice travel to company, supplier or client offices or sites for business purposes may be required.

Responsibilities

To support lead engineers working on studies, FEEDS and detailed design projects and where authorised to act as lead process engineer on smaller studies and projects.
To perform own design work and check work by others in accordance with company and client standards and procedures.
To represent Process Engineering in discussions and meetings with client, vendors and third parties.
To understand and follow discipline programme activities / deliverables, interdependencies, and man-hour budgets.
To work in a collaborative multi-disciplinary project delivery team, through proactive liaison with other disciplines and to ensure integration of Process Engineering design requirements into the overall engineering design.
To support the Process Engineering Technical Authority in technical development of the function.
To offer advice and support to colleagues and subordinates on development needs taking into account work activities, learning ability and circumstances and provide training as required on company workflow, methods and business systems.
To display Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction
To ensure personal compliance with current company policy, relevant legislation and company and client's requirements for Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental matters and work in such a manner not to cause personal harm or injury to fellow workers, client and subcontractor employees or the environment.
To support the Process Discipline Manager in delivering the company performance management process by assisting colleagues and subordinates in achieving their objectives and providing feedback on team member performance to their line managers.

Qualifications

Honours degree in Chemical Engineering preferably accredited by IChemE to Masters level.

A minimum of 5 years' experience in process design preferably in an engineering consultancy or contracting environment.

FEED & Detailed Design experience

Steady state process simulation and process optimisation skills

Good knowledge and experience in developing process design deliverables including Process Flow Diagrams, Process Design Philosophies, P&ID's, Cause & Effect's, Process Equipment & Instrument specifications, Relief and Blowdown calculations

Technical safety & environmental knowledge and experience including HAZOP and SIL assessment

Proactive, self-motivated and solutions biased

Strong interpersonal skills

Effective communicator

Strong technical writing skills

Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets : future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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