Principal Process Engineer

Overview

Principal Process Engineer – Onshore Gas Processing, Aberdeen (hybrid, with travel as required). Long-term contract opportunity with a leading engineering consultancy.

As the senior Process Engineer on your assigned project, you will carry full discipline responsibility - trusted to deliver technical excellence while balancing programme, cost, and quality. You will report into senior engineering leadership and act as the focal point for all process matters.

• Inspire and direct a team of process engineers across projects, studies, and proposals
• Execute the process engineering scope in line with contractual and regulatory requirements
• Develop key deliverables including Process Design Basis, heat & material balances, PFDs, philosophies, and P&IDs
• Check and approve technical work, safeguarding discipline quality
• Represent Process Engineering in meetings with clients, vendors, and third parties
• Plan resources, track progress, and provide clear reporting to project leadership
• Drive integration across multi-disciplinary teams to ensure cohesive design
• Champion the highest standards of Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental compliance

• Extensive experience in onshore gas processing facilities - ideally gas reception, treatment, compression, or storage
• Strong knowledge of UK regulatory frameworks and industry standards
• Proven delivery across the full project lifecycle, particularly FEED and EPC
• Expertise in process simulation, hazard studies (HAZID/HAZOP), SIL classification via LOPA, relief and blowdown design, and technical risk management
• Skilled in sizing and specifying unit operations, major equipment, utilities, packages, and instrumentation

• Degree in Chemical Engineering;
  Chartered status preferred (MIChemE/FIChemE)
• Around 15+ years’ experience, including leadership on major project delivery
• Background within engineering consultancy or contracting environments
• Commercially aware, proactive, and solutions-focused
• Strong communicator with refined technical writing ability
• Recognised SHE competence card (CCNSG or CSCS)

Hybrid, with part-time office attendance by agreement and occasional travel to company, supplier, or client locations as projects require.

If your expertise is ready to steer critical projects and leave a lasting mark on tomorrow’s energy systems - this is your next horizon