Career at Shell 2012 : Principal Process Engineer - Central and Northern North Sea |

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Company Description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies. It consists of the businesses of Upstream Americas, Upstream International, Downstream, and Projects & Technology. With around 93,000 employees in more than 90 countries and territories, Shell is helping to meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways. Our strategy seeks to reinforce our position as a leader in the oil and gas industry in order to provide a competitive shareholder return while helping to meet global energy demand in a responsible way. In Upstream we focus on exploring for new oil and gas reserves and developing major projects where our technology and know-how adds value to the resource holders. In Downstream our emphasis remains on sustained cash generation from our existing assets and selective investments in growth markets. Shell by numbers (figures for 2010) Shell by numbers + 90 countries where we operate ~93,000 number of employees 48% of our production is natural gas 16.8 million tonnes of LNG sold (2010) 3.3 million barrels of gas and oil we produce every day 43,000 Shell service stations worldwide 145 billion litres of fuel sold (2010) >30 refineries and chemical plants we run.

Job Description

We’re currently looking for a Principal Process Engineer to join the Asset Southern North Sea team in Aberdeen.

The process engineering team
based in Aberdeen provides support to the Shell Upstream Assets in the and the related Gas Plants in North East Scotland.

Ours is a technically challenging work environment characterized by a continuing need for research and the pursuit of new technology, and the adoption of new ways of working. It demands people who will thrive in a culture that encourages and rewards innovation, collaboration and the ability to learn from success as well as failure.

As a Principal Process Engineer professional you will lead a team of process engineers who:
  • Optimize the performance of existing processing facilities
  • Initiate and mature proposals for improvements leading to increased production and/or reduced costs
  • Identify innovative solutions to unlock reserves through the development of new process facilities
  • Monitor integrity, safety and environmental performance and initiate actions to ensure company and legal requirements continue to be satisfied
  • Support the Projects organization in the conceptual, execution and commissioning phase of facility projects
As team leader you will be responsible for quality control, priority setting and staff development for your team, and work in close cooperation with other surface and sub-surface discipline professionals, operations,maintenance and project engineering teams. You will also act as Technical Authority.

Desired Skills & Experience

We are seeking engineers with a MSc. or BSc. Degree in Chemical Engineering, with extensive experience in the Oil and Gas industry in process engineering or related functions.

Preferably
Chartered Engineer or registered professional engineer.

You are able to demonstrate:

  • Broad experience of design and selection of oil, gas, water process facilities, preferably in the Upstream environment
  • Experience of commissioning and operations of oil and gas processing facilities
  • Proven capability of support to Operations and/or Facility optimization
  • Very good communications and inter-personal skills
  • Strong leadership skills, proven in previous team leader roles