Principal Process Engineer

Job Description

Business Development/Marketing
 Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by providing technical assistance to support Business Development and Marketing strategies
 Produce cost effective, conceptual & timeous proposals
 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
 Refine scope of work, review contract and design discipline design criteria and engineering deliverables
 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
 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
 Data Sheets (Develop & Approval)
 Operation & Control Philosophy
 Detailed functional specifications
 Write operating manual
 Generate detailed plant process guarantees
 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

Plant commissioning
 Produce and submit commissioning plan/manual
 Determine critical path and establish commissioning sequence/schedule
 Define and secure resources
 Define battery limits of commissioning
 Define commissioning systems/procedure
 Produce commissioning files, including commissioning documentation
 Ensure commissioning meets project requirements
 Issue remedial inspection reports during construction
 Monitor installation and commissioning checklists
 Arrange and co-ordinate commissioning meetings
 Conduct on-site commissioning
 Provide technical back-up for site QA team
 Assist in performance testing in terms of design base
 Supervise and train operating personnel
 Contribute to close-out report and adhere to close out procedures
 Provide post-commissioning process support
 Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis
 Ensure regular visits/communications with client

Legislation, Policies & Procedures
 Lead design reviews and Hazops
 Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities
 Contribute to public participation process as per National Environmental Management Act (NEMA)
 Enforce process veto rights
 Maintain standards
 Adhere to and update Company standards
 Utilize 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

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

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

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

A proven experience of 6 to 25 years’ experience executing projects in the EPC/EPCM environment; ideally within the mining and minerals (preferred) or petrochemical sector.

• 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 ( Engineering, safety reqs, Audit regulations, Insurance laws etc.) and knowledge standard specifications ( 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