Senior Process Engineer

Job Scope

SNOC is seeking a highly motivated Senior Process Engineer to join our engineering team. The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical resource within the organization, providing expertise in process engineering, process safety, plant optimization, and project development and execution. The role requires a strong combination of operational support, engineering analysis, project delivery, and commissioning experience to ensure safe, reliable, and profitable operation of SNOC's gas processing and hydrocarbon facilities.

• Lead plant performance monitoring, including throughput, production losses, capacity utilization, energy intensity, flaring, emissions, bottlenecks and operating constraints.
• Support Operations in investigating plant upsets, quality deviations, equipment limitations, high energy consumption and abnormal process conditions.
• Identify opportunities to improve production, energy efficiency, emissions performance, and operating costs.
• Provide engineering assistance to develop operating procedures for ad-hoc activities and new projects.
• Analyze production data and identify areas of concern in metering, material balance, and recoveries.

• Provide process engineering and process safety inputs to engineering studies and projects.
• Conduct in-house process engineering studies, process simulations, engineering calculations, and technical evaluations to support plant operations and project development.
• Prepare and review process engineering deliverables, evaluate plant modifications, and review contractor deliverables to ensure technical integrity, operability, and compliance with company and industry standards.
• Participate in and facilitate Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) including HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL assessments, What-If reviews, and safeguarding studies.
• Review and approve process safety studies from external consultants such as QRAs, and Fire & Gas mapping as part of expansion projects.
• Support alarm rationalization, cause-and-effect validation, safeguarding verification and operating envelope management.
• Support Management of Change (MOC) processes, incident investigations, and the implementation and close-out of process safety actions.
• Assist the Health, Safety & environment team in incident investigations, and emergency response planning.
• Provide Asset Integrity management team with process engineering support such as consequence analysis review to determine frequency of inspection, intrusive inspection planning etc.
• Maintain Process Safety information, by ensuring that up to date engineering documentation, procedures and manuals are in place and maintained for the operation and maintenance of the Sajaa asset.

• Lead or play a key role in pre-commissioning, commissioning, plant start-up, performance testing, and handover activities while ensuring compliance with safety, operational, and project requirements, overseeing the transition from mechanical completion to safe, steady-state operations.
• Review commissioning procedures, start-up procedures, operating manuals, trip testing plans and performance test procedures.
• Participate in commissioning readiness reviews and PSSR before introduction of hydrocarbons.
• Verify that process conditions, operating limits, safeguards and control logic are suitable for safe start-up and stable operation.
• Support performance guarantee verification and close-out of process-related punch items.

• Develop and screen process options using technical, economic, safety, environmental, operability and maintainability criteria.
• Propose plant modifications and expansions to maximize profitability.
• Lead conceptual studies and technology evaluations by performing in-house technical/economic/environmental feasibility assessments for brownfield modifications and greenfield expansions.

• Provide inputs required to draft comprehensive Scopes of Work (SoW) for engineering consultants and EPC contractors. Review, challenge, and approve multi-disciplinary deliverables to provide technical assurance.
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