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Our client is a small but highly prestigious consultant specialising in conceptual / feasibility studies for the on and offshore oil and gas sector. The organisation is lean, flexible and an acknowledged centre for excellence within its field. As part of its growth and succession strategy, the organisation is looking to identify 2/3 high-calibre engineers for Junior / Intermediate roles. Where successful, candidates will be expected to contribute to a variety of short to medium term studies on subjects such as tie-backs, platform automaton, flow assurance/improvement, compression/pressure enhancement, high-temperature/viscosity/deep water assessments, etc. Whilst candidates with existing oil and gas experienced are preferred, high potential candidates with outstanding academic credentials and proven competence in design/development/fluid flow acquired in other sectors (COMAH chemicals/petrochemicals) will be considered for Junior positions.
Our client is one of the worlds most successful, technically driven, downstream consultancy’s. The company’s multi sector interests include refining, olefins and aromatics and their services extend through strategic planning, technology evaluation, operational enhancement, benchmarking studies, asset evaluation, etc. The immediate requirement is to find a mid-career engineer with between 4 and 8 years experience with good operational refinery insight, who can work on constraint relief, the development of simulation models, techno economic analysis, process option evaluation and justification, etc. Experience of working with hysis/aspentech software would be highly advantageous.
Our client produces bulk inorganics from a large top tier COMAH site employing 400. The facility utilises a number of hazardous processes and is expanding to meet growing international and domestic demand. The immediate need is to identify 2 process engineers with between 3 and 6 years plant based experience interested in a rounded role that would include plant support and optimisation, design and development and capital projects. The business is a market leader offering excellent training and mentoring to IChemE members.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced chemical engineer, with a good working knowledge of refinery processes and an interest in feasibility work to join a major refinery consultancy group to manage refinery planning studies. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of managing LP based studies and will lead a small team in developing and implementing refinery LP models, economic evaluations, producing written reports, making presentations, and meeting project technical deliverables on budget on cost and profit. The job holder will be expected to capitalise on the growing market for refinery planning studies generated by changing fuel specifications to reduce fuel oil productions and understanding of product specification, blending, crude characterisation and logistics would be welcome.
Our client is a “blue-chip” developer of licensed, large scale proprietary technology that operates as discrete units on client facilities around the world. Controlled and supported remotely on refineries, petrochemical plants and offshore production facilities, their capital value frequently reaches £10M to £20M. The engineering group responsible for the design and installation of these systems wishes to make the strategic appointment of 2 or 3 project engineering specialists who wish to realise their full career potential with a company that places exceptional emphasis on personal and technical development. A degree qualified chartered mechanical, chemical or electrical engineer with an established post qualification trade record experience, the candidates should have the unrealised potential to develop steadily over the next 3/5 year period as part of an established succession plan. A background in refining, oil and gas or petrochemicals would be preferred but is not essential.
Our client is a prestigious consulting group offering a highly focused technical service to clients in the refining, syngas, petrochemical and onshore oil and gas markets. Expertise driven, the group is able to unlock significant value from client operations through operational analysis, technology evaluation, benchmarking and engineering expertise. With a world wide focus, the team is now looking to recruit a small number of additional consultants with varying experience of supporting and improving down and mid stream operations. Candidates will need exceptional academic backgrounds, vigorous intellects and first class influencing and interpersonal skills. Exposure to constraint relief, debottlenecking, technology selection and specification, proposal and report writing within the downstream sector would be very helpful.
Our client is the technology development and licensing group within on of the world’s largest integrated producers and marketers of premium fibres, resins and intermediates. Candidates can look forward to joining an industry leading research and development team where their responsibilities will include developing new chemical process equipment and initiating and implementing development work to improve process economics, safety or product. Experience of work on pilot scale plant and driving scale up and transfer exercises within high hazard environments would be helpful but not essential.
Our client specialties in a range of technology areas including oil and gas, syngas
LNG/Cryogenics, refining and petrochemicals. The company offers its clients a complete project execution capability from feasibly studies to front-end design through to plant commissioning. With experience that should include software packages such as HYSIM/HYSIS, the job holder will work alone or as part of a multi disciplining task force. Duties will include, producing process designs calculations, process descriptions and specifications, flow sheets, heat and material balances, raw materials specifications, equipment lists for data sheets and relief valves etc.
Our client is one of the world’s largest producers and marketers of premium fibres, resins and intermediate around the world. It develops and licences its own propriety manufacturing processes and much of its production capacity is in the form of third party licensed joint ventures. The organisation is now looking for a driven and ambitious engineer to support project implementations and co-ordinate multi disciplinary engineering teams in the production of design packages (including cost estimating and planning) for licensed bulk chemical plants. Responsibilities extend along the whole project life cycle, including specification and P&ID production, sub-contractor bid assessments and contracts, etc.
Our client is an unusual hybrid company specialising in recycling technology and processing. The company have developed their own proprietary recycling processes that are both licensed to third party and used in the companies own manufacturing facilities. The job holder, who will ideally have some basic post qualification experience, will provide input into proposals for prospective licensees including pilot trials and basis for design and also support the businesses manufacturing effectiveness with trouble shooting, improvements, and commissioning support, etc.
Our client is a major player in global process simulation and process automation and is one of the world’s largest simulation vendors to the oil and gas market. The company employs over 200 people and operates out of 20 countries. The organisations services extend from conceptual process studies, engineering design verification, control system checkout and operating training models to real time production monitoring systems. The organisation is now looking for an experienced process engineer whose responsibilities will include building and configuring process simulators, carrying out dynamic process and control studies, analysing oil and gas processes and plant control systems, performing optimisation and debottlenecking studies, commissioning systems and delivering training.
Our client is one of the worlds most successful, technically driven, downstream consultancy’s. The company’s multi sector interests include refining, olefins and aromatics and their services extend through strategic planning, technology evaluation, operational enhancement, benchmarking studies, asset evaluation, etc. The immediate requirement is to find mid-career and seniors engineer with established and extensive operational refinery insight, who can work on constraint relief, the development of simulation models, techno economic analysis, process option evaluation and justification, etc. Experience of working with hysis/aspentech software would be highly advantageous.
Our client is a large safety consultant with 3 offices nationally supporting the oil & gas, nuclear and process sectors with a variety of services including Hazops/Hazids, safety case and safety management system development, fault/event tree analysis, safety audits and so on. The company is urgently looking for 2/3 academically well qualified, numerate juniors to assist project safety teams complete a raft of safety cases associated with equipment and process changes on major COMAH facilities.
Our client is a major integrated energy company owning a formidable range of up and downstream assets and a portfolio of leading edge proprietary process technologies. Addressing, like many energy companies, the demands of tomorrows energy needs, environmental issues and security of supply, our client is investing heavily in conversion technologies to bring alternative carbon sources of energy to market. Focusing on the development and application of technologies such as Fischer Tropsch, proprietary reforming and building on historical expertise and strengths in solids gasification, carbon capture and gas reforming, this centre of excellence is looking for the following additional resources to build a reliable, sustainable alternative energy supply chain which converts abundant low cost hydrocarbons into clean power, fuels and other products:
*Licensed Project Managers *Process Engineers
*Project Process Engineers *Senior Licensing Process Engineers *Development/Scale-up Engineers
Candidatures are sought from engineers with exposure to syngas/gasification/GTL/carbon capture processing, plant and technology at all experience levels.
Our client is a successful independent consultant to the food, beverage and water industries. The business has over 1000 clients spread over 60 countries that includes world leading brand owners. The successful candidate will progressively take responsibility for all aspects of the business over an extended period ultimately taking control of sales and marketing, technology development and application and project delivery. Candidates should have substantial experience of water and waste water technology and engineering and, ideally, a second degree or equivalent in water treatment in addition to a track record in successfully applying technology to provide client solutions that are valued, cost effective, practical and profitable.
Our client is a major engineer to the nuclear sector undertaking conceptual studies, FEEDS, and full detailed engineering and implementation assignments for nuclear operating companies worldwide. A chartered chemical engineer with extensive experience in process design and a detailed, practical understanding of nuclear operations, processing and safety / compliance requirements, the job holder will lead a team of engineers in the production of process data for tenders, engineering studies, full construction projects and sales support, successfully managing it from a technical, resourcing and budgeting point of view.
Our client specialises in a range of technical and commercial services supporting the petrochemical and refinery sectors, including operational performance improvement, strategic analysis, benchmarking studies, investment analysis and project development. The energy consultant will lead data collection and analysis exercises, review process calculations, undertake simulation modelling and flow sheet development, prepare and review energy balances for processes such as fuel, steam, power and cooling, perform site pinch analysis and utility system modelling, generate road mapping and strategic investment planning etc.
Our client is a leading consultant to the biotechnology sector with a proven track record in the area of simulation, cost modelling for OPEX and CAPEX, business development and bioprocess design. The company is looking to appoint an experienced, appropriately qualified engineer to undertake a range of duties including contributing to or leading process design projects, developing the company’s understanding of novel technology and lean manufacturing techniques, performing process and cost simulations, carrying out consultancy tasks such as market studies, benchmarking reports, etc.
Our client is a blue-chip manufacturer of bulk food ingredients, operating large, challenging facilities turning over big volumes of several key products. With substantial new investment aimed at variable cost reduction and increased capacity has arisen a new opportunity for an experienced process improvement engineer. The job holder will focus on maximising throughput and the efficient use of resources in making feedstocks and energy through a combination of plant tuning and optimisation and process improvements and modifications. Experience in sigma application work, process data analysis and rationalisation, identifying and scoping and implementing modifications, equipment specification and commissioning is all required.
Our client is a major UK technology house undertaking a wide and interesting range of process services, including process operational analysis, FEEDS, safety and relief assessments, process development and implementation programmes and such like for the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and pharmaceutical markets.
Our client is a major blue-chip processor of natural feedstations used in the manufacture of oils, pigments and fibres. The plant is modern, highly effective against most benchmarks and the subject of an extended period of investment aimed at reducing variable costs and increasing capacity. A project engineer with some experience is now sought for to contribute to CAPEX effect now underway. Duties will include finalising specifications for work packages, issuing enquiries, bid analysis, appointing and controlling sub contractors, managing costs and schedule, overseeing installation, etc.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced chemical engineer, with a good working knowledge of refinery processes and an interest in feasibility work to join a major refinery consultancy group to manage refinery planning studies. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of managing LP based studies and will lead a small team in developing and implementing refinery LP models, economic evaluations, producing written reports, making presentations, and meeting project technical deliverables on budget on cost and profit. The job holder will be expected to capitalise on the growing market for refinery planning studies generated by changing fuel specifications to reduce fuel oil productions and understanding of product specification, blending, crude characterisation and logistics would be welcome.
Our client is a major engineer to the utilities, Gas/LNG, power, LPG, CHP and environmental treatments sectors implementing large-scale projects on behalf of major operating companies and investors around the country. Current projects include new compressor systems and stations, LNG terminals and off-sites, waste to energy and incineration schemes, etc. The organisation is looking to recruit 2 mechanically qualified engineers for project roles based in Bristol and the Wirral. The job holder will take full responsibility for taking agreed designs and translating them into installed and commissioned hardware. This will include specifying and sourcing equipment packages, developing and implementing a project plan, controlling man hours and costs, ensuring vendors meet their contractual delegations, supervising site activities, etc. These are staff roles.
Our client is a premier player within the international safety sector: an organisation that has played a key role in developing techniques and standards which are an inevitable inclusion on virtually every major tender list for safety services.
The organisation is currently looking to strengthen its highly successful nuclear group through the appointment of several engineers with varying levels of exposure to the nuclear sector. Candidates are sought with competencies in safety design, fault and event three analysis, safety case development, site audits, safety management system development and so on, though it is not expected that candidates will not have covered all subject areas.
Our client is an ambitious, entrepreneurial, renewable energy company with a manufacturing to market capability and a total commitment to a “lowest possible” carbon footprint that includes complete bi product recycling, renewable energy based distribution and grid free, energy generation and consumption at plant level. The COO will have day-to-day responsibility for total plant operations and production driving the whole manufacturing and supply chain to achieve better than expected results in terms against kpi’s that include HSE performance, product quality and availability, employment practise and law, plant development and operations and investment. With a proven track record in managing sophisticated production facilities on a 24/7 basis the job holder will have the gravitas, competence and credibility to develop relationships with key customers and suppliers, optimise supply chains from feedstock to delivery, deliver reports to markets and recruit, train and develop key personnel.
Our client is a leading independent consultancy and technology group delivering competitive advantages through improvements in business performance and asset value to owners, operators and investors in the oil refining and petrochemical processing industries world wide. The business offers a range of services to ensure that each client’s facility and business is optimised to reach its full potential. This highly effective organisation is now looking to strengthen its strategy group that provides support to M&A, pre feasibility studies, performance benchmarking and strategic and business planning. The main purpose of the role will be to provide higher level advice justified by appropriate analysis and reports. Depending upon the nature of the support, the advice to client is likely to vary but may include EBITDA cash flows, acquisition strengths and weakness evaluation, risk return analysis and decision modelling and so on. The job holder’s role will, of course, extend beyond technical deliverables and include developing leads for project sales, supporting the sales process, drafting and presenting proposals, etc. Candidates should have substantial experience of the refining process both from a strategic/macroeconomic and practical operational perspective.
Our client is a major developer and manufacturer of organic chemicals from a medium sized, batchwise COMAH regulated facility. The business is currently enjoying strong demand for its range of intermediates and precursors and as a consequence has prepared a substantial capital investment plan for the next 2 years aimed at increasing capacity. The job holder will report to the Project Manager and work within a multi disciplinary team on the development and implementation of new equipment and processes. Candidates will, ideally, have experience of process design and equipment specification, cost estimation and site installation and commissioning activities.