Business Development/Marketing
- 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
Project Life Cycle
- 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
Design
- 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
Client Relations (Internal & External)
- 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
Plant commissioning
- 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 close-out report and adhere to close out procedures
- Provide post-commissioning process support
- Ensure plant optimization and plant operating analysis
- Ensure regular visits/communications with client
Legislation, Policies & Procedures
- Lead design reviews and Hazops
- Ensure legal compliance with design codes and authorities
- Contribute to public participation process as per National Environmental Management Act (NEMA)
- Enforce process veto rights
- Maintain standards
- Adhere to and update Company standards
- Utilize engineering tools/systems
Continuous Improvement
- Consult with specialists for novel or unusual designs
- Review industry standards making use of network periodicals, attending shows and conferences
- Identify areas of improvement
- Review all previous close-out report
- Review systems and procedures
- Recommend best practices
- Continuous professional development
- Identify and address training needs
Company Image
- Actively promote the Company’s professional image, both internally and externally
- Present technical papers
- Advertise in accordance with Company guidelines
- Interact with professional bodies
- Network and participation in seminars