Process Engineer - Gauteng - SGS

Description

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide.

Job Overview

This position requires a seasoned process engineer to provide technical assistance in marketing and proposal support, conceptual design, and project implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide process engineering input to marketing and proposals by offering technical assistance to support business development and marketing strategies.
• Develop cost-effective, timely, and accurate proposals that meet customer requirements.
• Determine customer needs and communicate effectively with clients to review their enquiry documents and evaluate requirements and constraints.
• Define the scope of work for processes and plants.
• Produce conceptual designs and generate alternatives.
• Produce and agree on mass and energy balances and conceptual PFDs.
• Contribute to the basic design criteria document through preliminary equipment and motor lists, preliminary control criteria, and major equipment and material specifications.

Project Life Cycle

• Provide process engineering input to project implementation and setup.
• Offer input to generate scopes of work, schedules, and budgets.
• Refine scopes of work, review contracts, and design discipline design criteria and engineering deliverables.
• Define battery limits and report scope variances.
• Generate detail discipline schedules and review overall discipline requirements.
• Identify long-lead items and contribute to procurement.
• Determine and prioritize work breakdown structures.
• Issue data to planners.
• Review and coordinate schedules 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 reports.
• Provide input to monthly discipline reports.
• Offer feedback to functional managers.

Design

• Generate the following engineering deliverables:
• Detailed mass and energy balances.
• Detailed PFDs.
• Detailed equipment/motor lists.
• Equipment specifications.
• Data sheets (develop and approve).
• Operation and control philosophies.
• Detailed functional specifications.
• Write operating manuals.
• 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)

• Promote approved vendor lists and issue enquiry documents.
• Perform technical and commercial adjudication.
• Obtain client approval.
• Participate in pre-award meetings, review quality plans, and contracts.
• Review quality/expediting reports and witness key manufacturing hold points.
• Provide technical backup for expediting teams.
• Proactively maintain information flow.
• Attend coordination meetings.
• Advise changes early.
• Coordinate deliveries.
• Achieve flexibility.
• Respond to the needs of other disciplines.
• Evaluate awareness of Company vision and departmental goals/objectives.

Plant Commissioning

• Produce and submit commissioning plans/manuals.
• Determine critical paths and establish commissioning sequences/schedules.
• Define and secure resources.
• Define battery limits of commissioning.
• Define commissioning systems/procedures.
• Produce commissioning files, including commissioning documentation.
• Ensure commissioning meets project requirements.
• Issue remedial inspection reports during construction.
• Monitor installation and commissioning checklists.
• Arrange and coordinate commissioning meetings.
• Conduct on-site commissioning.
• Provide technical backup for site QA teams.
• Assist in performance testing based on design bases.
• Supervise and train operating personnel.
• Contribute to close-out reports and adhere to close-out procedures.
• Provide post-commissioning process support.
• Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis.
• Regularly visit/communicate with clients.

Legislation, Policies & Procedures

• Lead design reviews and HAZOPs.
• Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities.
• Contribute to public participation processes according to 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 using network periodicals, attending shows and conferences.
• Identify areas of improvement.
• Review all previous close-out reports.
• Review systems and procedures.
• Recommend best practices.
• Engage in continuous professional development.
• Identify and address training needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Extractive Metallurgy, or Minerals Processing from a recognized tertiary institution.

Skills And Experience

A proven experience of 5 to 25 years executing projects in EPC/EPCM environments, 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 activities 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 Diagrams - Ability to produce, understand, and deliver piping and instrumentation diagrams.