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In this position you will be part of our Process and Mechanical Engineering team, contributing to exciting projects across South Africa and throughout Africa.
This role provides an excellent opportunity to collaborate with other engineering disciplines – including control and instrumentation, electrical, civil, and structural – on multi-disciplinary projects within the oil & gas and mining sectors.
Additionally, this position offers an excellent opportunity to develop your project management skills.
Role responsibilities
Development of process systems, scope of work, design criteria, man hour estimates, and schedules for projects.
Make technical decisions, direct the activities of other process personnel on the project, coordinate design efforts with all other groups on the job, and maintain the process records for the project.
They report progress and ensure compliance with relevant standards and procedures.
Ensure that the content and objective of the Health, Safety, Security and the Environmental and Quality Policy and the Information Security policies are implemented by self and all supervised staff.
Keep informed, by all possible means of technology developments in the process industry and make recommendations to Zutari on methods improving our competitive position.
Be accountable for the best-in-class execution of all FEED, EPCM, PMC projects by the Process Engineering Department to meet the budget, schedule, quality, Health, Safety, Security and the Environmental requirements of the projects from a process standpoint.
Manage self and junior engineers in terms of delivery, resource management, technical training, and performance management.
Ensure the execution risks on projects are understood and execution reviews and audits are undertaken to mitigate these risks.
Provide and promote input to the Strategic Development Group in Zutari for developing the best-in-class practices and tools for project execution.
Establish, develop, and sustain relationships with all Clients (internal/external).
Provide specialized process design on single or multiple projects from conception through FEED, detailed design, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
Resolve complex troubleshooting, design optimisation, and perform engineering studies.
Develop energy and material balances, process simulations, process flow diagrams, process and instrumentation diagrams, process data sheets, equipment sizing, hydraulic pipeline sizing, and technical calculations.
Conducts technical assessment with licensors, vendors, and engineering contractors to provide the optimum design.
Conduct/follow peer check and squad check procedures for technical deliverables.
When leading a process design team, assign work tasks to other process engineers.
Hold client and vendors meetings. Hold intra-discipline and attend cross discipline coordination meetings.
Performing technical report writing on specific projects relating to petrochemical, manufacturing and resources.
Be proactive and able to talk to clients and canvass for work.
Participate in tendering for new work.
Minimum requirements
BEng, BSc, MEng, or MSc in Chemical Engineering and 5-10+ years’ experience with a minimum of 2 years in project management.
Pr.Eng. registration with ECSA is required or must be in progress.
Familiar with commonly used process engineering standards and codes including but not limited to API, NFPA, ASME, GPS as well as commonly used process engineering software.
Proficiency in MS Office (Excel and Word).
Working knowledge of Aspen Plus, Aspen Hysys and hydraulic simulation software (e.g. Flownex).
Prior experience in the petrochemical industry, with some additional experience in gas (LNG/CNG/LPG) manufacturing and resources would be a bonus.
Experience distinguishing advantages and/or vulnerabilities among licensors’ competitive technologies in the petrochemical sectors.
Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams to achieve project results within required timeframes.
Site experience, including project execution, commissioning and hand-over.
Experience in typical process engineering safety analyses, e.g. HAZOP workshops, HAC analysis, etc.
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