Junior Process Engineer at SGS

Job Description

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide technically acceptable process engineering deliverables within time and cost constraints.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

 Business Development/Marketing    

• Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by providing technical assistance to support Business Development and Marketing strategies
• Determine customer’s requirements
• Communicate with customer and review customer’s enquiry documents and evaluate requirements and constraints
• Define the process/plant scope of work
• Produce the conceptual design and generate alternatives
• Produce and agree mass and energy balances and conceptual PFD’s
• Contribute to basic design criteria document through preliminary equipment & motor list, preliminary control criteria and major equipment & material specification

Project Life Cycle

• Provide Process engineering input to project implementation and Project set up
• Provide input to generate scope of work, schedules and budgets
• Define Battery limits and control and report scope variances
• Generate detail discipline schedules and review overall discipline requirements
• Contribute to procurement and identify long lead items
• Determine/prioritize work breakdown structure 
• Issue data to planner
• Review/co-ordinate & adhere to schedule of implementation
• Control and report variances
• Generate and develop detail discipline budgets and identify indirect/resource costs (PE2/1)
• Adhere to budget implementation and control and report budget variances
• Consolidate documentation for monthly project progress report
• Provide input to monthly discipline reports
• Provide feedback to functional manager

Design    

• Generate the following engineering deliverables:
• Detailed mass & energy balance
• Detailed PFD’s
• Detailed equipment/motor list
• Equipment specifications
• Operation & Control Philosophy
• Detailed functional specifications
• Write operating manual
• Check and review design layouts, including vendor packages
• Adhere to schedules and budgets
• Issue, review and control final process design documentation
• Check and obtain approval of calculations and specifications
• Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs

Client Relations (Internal & External)    

• Prepare approved vendor list and issue enquiry documents
• Perform technical and commercial adjudication
• Obtain client approval
• Participate in pre-award meetings, review quality plan and contract
• Review quality/expediting reports and witness key manufacturing hold points
• Provide technical backup for expediting team
• Proactively maintain information flow
• Attend co-ordination meetings
• Advise changes early
• Co-ordinate deliveries
• Adopt flexible approach
• Respond to needs of other disciplines
• Ensure awareness of Company vision and departmental goals/objectives
• Legislation, Policies & Procedures
• Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities

Maintain standards

• Adhere to and update Company standards
• Utilise engineering tools/systems

Continuous Improvement    

• Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs
• Review industry standards making use of network periodicals, attending shows and conferences
• Identify areas of improvement
• Review all previous close-out report
• Review systems and procedures
• Recommend best practices
• Continuous professional development
• Identify and address training needs

REQUIRED SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE

• Construction & Commissioning -Understanding of on-site construction work such as commissioning or customers and suppliers’ interactions
• Risk Analysis - Ability to identify project and activates risk from any point of view including knowledge of hazard and operation HAZOP
• Value Engineering - Ability to optimize a process by adding value either as saving in cost or simplifying the process
• Process Flow Diagrams - Ability to produce, understand and deliver Process Flow diagrams
• Testing -Knowledge of testing techniques and procedures including specifications and interpretations of test works
• Equipment & Components - Knowledge of process, control, quality, electrical etc. equipment specifications, suppliers and features (including equipment installation and components)
• Legislation & Standards - Knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. Engineering, safety reqs, Audit regulations, Insurance laws etc.) and knowledge standard specifications (e.g. Plant layout requirements, etc.)  including the ability to integrate these standards.
• Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand and communicate technical specifications
• Economical Awareness - Knowledge of economic fundamentals and ability to make estimations and proposing alternatives
• Process Simulation -Ability to simulate processes by means of software or other methodologies
• Mass balance -    Ability to calculate (using software and spreadsheets) the mass balance of a process
• Process Design Criteria - Knowledge of parameters required to design the process
• Piping & Instrumentation - Diagram    Ability to produce, understand and deliver piping and instrumentation diagrams

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• A good Chemical Engineering or Extractive Metallurgy or Minerals Processing Degree from a recognized tertiary institution

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 2 years' experience in the EPCM environment and some technical design in any of the following - concentrators, smelters, leach plants and refineries for copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, gold, uranium, platinum group metals; coal washing plants, iron ore beneficiation plants, heavy mineral sands concentrators.