Senior Principal Process Engineer

About us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

General Purpose of Role

Provides discipline team supervision on projects by directing project execution activities and discipline deliverable creation for one large or several smaller projects. Accountable for the safe/sustainable engineering, quality, cost and schedule delivery of all work by the discipline. Completes discipline technical work for projects, as time permits.
Senior level position with advanced knowledge and a specialized depth or breadth of expertise, gaining a mastery of multiple broader areas of specialty, product, and systems. May include team leadership role as well as project and discipline related administrative responsibilities.

Key Accountabilities

Business Development Support

• Assists business development activities by maintaining an up to date personal profile and resume. Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors. Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead all or part of a proposal.

Business Operations

• Supports the business by communicating team resource loading and skill requirements to the Discipline Manager. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training. Assists in the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes. Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

Technical Competency

• Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.

Project Execution

• Participates in project execution strategy and planning. Knows the project and owns the discipline scope/cost/time requirements, makes certain the team meets expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success. Drives innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Owns management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives and participates in squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.

Project Deliverables

• Enables data gathering and the preparation of engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc. Assists with recommendations and helps create final documentation. Ensures technical issues are defined with alternate solutions, pros/cons established for multiple solutions, and recommendations made through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc. Ensures final documentation incorporates all relevant information and customer approval is obtained. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

Procurement Support

• Ensures relevant information is incorporated into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions. Enables bid clarifications, bid evaluations, inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and other certification activities. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

Site Support

• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering/design. Works with site personnel to resolve issues. May create plans or documents that supports construction, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, or decommissioning. May provide or lead on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turn over.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Essential)

• Awarded a 4 or 5 year technical degree in science or engineering. Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local engineering governing body where required by law.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Desirable)

• Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential)

• Typically has 15+ years of relevant discipline experience and 3+ years in project leadership. Has a strong background in discipline work, and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices. Well versed in discipline setup, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project closeout. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content.
• Experience in risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution. Adept at budgeting and cost control.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable)

Additional specific role requirements for Abu Dhabi are:

• SME level expertise in NGL Processing, gas treatment processes and sulphur handling is essential including ability to perform feasibility and conceptual engineering studies, simulations and economics.
• Experience of specification of licensor processes and evaluation of licensors is essential.
• Experience of integrating licensor designs into contractor's engineering is essential.
• SME level expertise in adequacy studies, assessment of existing facilities, defining upgrades and implementation of modifications.
• SME level expertise in separation and gas compression is preferable SME level expertise in Hydrogen and Ammonia Production is preferable.
• Ability to Lead large projects across multiple offices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Provide support to Discipline Manager in discipline tasks and preserving the reputation of the Process Group.

Decision Making

• Recommendations will normally relate to project execution strategy. Alternatives to technical design are normally referred to the project team or specialists to ensure accordance with standard engineering principles and company policy. Must operate within approved budget/schedule and seek approval from project management to deviate.

Supervision Received

• Works with self-initiated interaction with supervisor and self-initiated technical guidance. Influence over duties. Receives administrative direction based on organization policies and objectives. Work is reviewed to ensure conformity with policy and for coordination of other company functions or groups.

Supervision Authority

• Typically up to 10 direct reports consisting of engineers, designers and specialists within the same discipline but could include total team size much greater than this with supporting coordination. Reviews work for technical accuracy and adequacy. Plans, controls & reports on project work. May have authority for performance evaluations impacting pay. May make recommendations concerning selection, training, rating and discipline of staff.

Communication

• Seasoned ability to inform and persuade on complex matters comes from recognition of discipline mastery. Utilized on the most complex and difficult problems.

Systems & Tools (Essential)

• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint. Can navigate intranet pages, conduct searches, and retrieve information. Can organize information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies. Has functional awareness of discipline tools. Aware of the interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modeling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.

Systems & Tools (Desirable)

• Competent in Microsoft Access and Visio. Able to touch type.

HSE Capability

• Assume hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements. Drive Safe and Sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL. Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance.

People Skills

• Interpersonal: Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.
• Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”
• Intellectual Capacity: Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.

And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.