Principal Process Engineer

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 97,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.

SGS Bateman’s multidiscipline engineering team provides integrated engineering services for processing plants and related operations. Using proven ISO methodologies enhanced by innovative approaches, the team transforms conceptual designs into operational manual processing plants of all sizes and complexities. An extensive suite of enhanced 3-D design tools and modeling software allow our engineering team to visualize all aspects of plant development.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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…