Associate Engineer - PTM

Job Description

The Associate Engineer - PTM is an experienced (2 - 5 years) process engineer tasked with remote monitoring and process performance reporting for chemical processes. The engineer plays a critical role in early detecting and alerting of production performance issues and supports the continuous improvement of the production process.

Key accountabilities:

The key accountability of the Associate Engineer - PTM is providing support of the technical content for their respective technology or theme area. Performs proactive technical monitoring of the process technology against the safe operating envelope and limits for the process unit(s) that reside within their technology or theme area base. Audits and supports technical content development and other unit performance KPI’s to assure the operation is compliant. The purpose of this activity is to understand unit and equipment performance, identify threats, troubleshoot performance and reliability gaps, and identify opportunities for improvement. This activity feeds into multiple deliverables.

• Supports continuous improvement of the theme area. The Associate Engineer is assessed based on the delivery of theme area improvement each year which is considered comparable to supervisory team lead leadership. Maintains and improves the portfolio of their respective theme area and delivers value through improvement of the overall theme.

• Supports compliance to global and site standards for technical monitoring process and practices in collaboration with P&T and Global work process focal points.

• Provides inputs and guidance to the OSE’s/CSE’s assigned to the physical assets to ensure their assigned assets are operated in a safe, environmentally sound, and reliable manner in accordance with the license to operate and the defined safe operating envelope.

• Trains OSE’s and others in how to develop, maintain and use for Proactive Technical Monitoring (PTM).

• Maintains up to date technology specific knowledge through LFI, technical networks etc. so as to be able to proactively identify threats to the units or business coming from the wider Shell organization or industry knowledge and practices.

• Identify opportunities to improve unit capacity, yield, availability, and utilization in support of the site and business plans.

• Participates in technology forums, conferences to share learning and maintain and improve competencies in their specialty.

• Maintains and help’s develop training materials and guidance manuals designed for Engineers in conjunction with P&T and Learning.

Specific activities can include (but not limited to):

• Exception based surveillance.
• Utilities monitoring & reporting.
• Energy monitoring & reporting
• Proactive technical monitoring meetings & reporting
• Monthly KPI report

Mandatory Requirements:

• University Degree in Petroleum/Chemical Engineering.
• Minimum 2-5 Years of work exp. after Graduate Degree & overall working experience in Oil & Gas/ Petrochemicals.
• Operations and Maintenance experience working in offshore facilities\wells\Refinery\petrochemical plants in disciplines like process or instrumentation or mechanical or wells.
• Proficient in reading P&IDs and good understanding of process narratives and manuals
• Good discipline knowledge either of process(chemical) or of wells and subsurface to enable monitoring of wells. Should be able to practically apply that to the proactive monitoring work process.