Career at Engineering Consultancy in the UK 2012 : Principal Process Simulation Engineer |

ENGINEERING JOBS

Company Description

Atkins is the largest engineering consultancy in the UK, the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe and the world’s eighth largest design firm. Its size brings significant value to our clients, allowing it to harness an unrivalled pool of creative, professional people to produce outstanding solutions to challenging problems.   The simplest articulation of what Atkins does is "Plan, Design, Enable": Plan - the challenges facing its clients are multidimensional, often because of the increasingly complex modern environment. From cost and risk planning, feasibility studies and logistics, to impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activity, it plans every aspect of clients' projects. Design - Atkins designs intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. It also designs physical structures such as office towers, schools, bridges and highways.   Whatever it designs, it applies the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards. Enable - its clients choose Atkins because they want to focus on their core operations. They entrust Atkins to look after the management of projects, people and issues - ensuring that deadlines are met, costs are controlled and success is delivered.

Job Description

We provide services across a wide range of disciplines and applications covering fixed and floating offshore structures, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants and pipelines. Atkins has worked on over 1,000 Oil & Gas Installations and 60% of our Oil & Gas Revenues now come from beyond the North Sea. We work on some of the most exciting and varied projects in the Oil & Gas sector.
 
 
Responsibilities
  • Technical lead in process dynamic simulation
  • Create business opportunities and develop client relationships
  • Manage bids and projects for the Process and Simulation Technology department
  • Lead process package in Multi-Disciplinary Engineering projects
  • Fully conversant with the commercial aspects of project risk management

Desired Skills & Experience

  Requirements
  • Substantial amount of Process Engineering experience for the Oil & Gas industry
  • Recognizable amount of Dynamic Process Simulation consulting experience
  • Strong Client relationships and business development experience
  • Accomplished project manager for delivering small and large dynamic process simulation services
  • Proficient usage of dynamic process simulation software, preferably Hysys and/or UniSim
  • Surge analysis knowledge and experience with tools such as Wanda or Flowmaster.
  Essential
  • Good (Honours) degree in Chemical Engineering
  • Working towards or already achieved CEng status
  • Ability to cope rapidly with challenging technical problems
  • Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
Desirable
  • Publication and conference presentation
  • Multi-Disciplinary Engineering project experience
  • Hands on experience with AspenOne Engineering software suite.
Personal Skills
    • Analytical
    • Self-motivating
    • A co-operative and helpful attitude to colleagues and clients            
    • Able to deliver technical excellence on small projects as well as large multi-disciplinary projects
    • Flexible in working hours when required.
 
Atkins recognize that there are many well qualified people who are looking to further their career in engineering, but who cannot commit to full time employment. We support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements.