Process Engineer

Within Heat Projects, the Engineering department is an international team with highly qualified professionals and is responsible for the complete design process within a project. The Process Engineer is responsible for developing and evaluating technical concepts in the earliest phase of the project, drafting technical specification of a plant in the invitation to tender phase, evaluating technical bids and negotiation, followed by facilitating commissioning and performance testing. The department also supports in scheduling, cost estimating and QA/QC management.

What are the responsibilities of the Process Engineer?

Vattenfall often uses design consultants and design and build contractors for designing our Projects and Plant Changes , however they require steering, guidance and control to assure compliance with Vattenfall standards and site specific requirements and to ensure correct alignment with specific maintenance and operational requirements. For smaller packages of work, basic and detailed engineering may be performed by Vattenfall’s engineers themselves. As the energy sector is rapidly changing towards sustainability there is a shift towards more conceptual engineering of more chemical oriented processes, like for example carbon neutral fuels and heat pumps.
The engineer will contribute to Feasibility studies, Basis of Design (BODs) and Basic Design Engineering Packages (BDEPs) and owners engineering (project execution and supervision) in order to assure all process and equipment aspects are included in the projects. This with the aim to ensure that equipment has the highest quality, can be safely operated and well maintained.The engineer will engage with other engineering discipline as and where required and will guide contractors to a good project end result.As Process Engineer, you will provide technical support to our projects by:

• Bringing in your engineering expertise to deliver a safe, technical sound and high quality design for the process, equipment and building.
• Including optimum selection, fit-for-purpose specification of the process and equipment and its auxiliary systems.
• Give input to the Cost Estimate.
• Take part in negotiations, evaluate bids of contractors and give award recommendations.
• Ensuring quality assurance and quality control in construction, commissioning and startup phase.
• Selection and specification of equipment shall be in compliance with international Codes and Standards and with the Vattenfall standards.
• Coordinating Engineering activities within the project in the support of the Engineering Manager.
• Within each project, report to the Engineering Manager of the Project.
• Motivating, coaching and provide active guidance to colleague engineers, contractor personnel and/or contractor staff.

Qualifications

Our successful candidate has a relevant University degree in Chemical Engineering or similar, with work experience in the field of Engineering, Procurement and Construction.

Your personal characteristics and competences:

• Excellent analytical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Structured worker with ability to structure work of others
• Self-propelling and a good team player
• Experience in international cooperation, culturally sensitive
• Experience with databases and spreadsheets is preferable
• You enjoy working on international, multidisciplinary projects and are willing to travel

Additional Information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development. More Information We welcome your application in English, no later than 14/07/2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Adam Hammond - adam.hammond@vattenfall.com

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.