Senior Process Engineer

Job Snapshot

Role: Senior Process Engineer - Oil and Gas
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Process
Experience: 8‑15 years in oil and gas process engineering detail design
Job Type: Full‑time

Position Overview: Senior Process Engineer - Oil and Gas in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is an Oil and Energy opportunity for an experienced process engineering professional with strong expertise in FEED, detailed design, process simulations, PFDs, P and IDs, process safeguarding, flare studies, depressurization analysis, HAZOP closeout, and multidisciplinary project coordination. This role is suited for a technically strong engineer who can improve process engineering delivery, support complex project decisions, guide less experienced engineers, and contribute to safe, accurate, and compliant energy project execution.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Process
Salary: 26,000‑38,000 (Estimated salary range; confirm final offer with the employer)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full‑time

Role Context

The Senior Process Engineer - Oil and Gas supports the delivery of process engineering work across conceptual studies, FEED, detailed design, vendor review, technical audits, and project execution interfaces. The position contributes to safe and efficient project development by preparing technical deliverables, reviewing calculations, coordinating with engineering disciplines, and ensuring process designs meet project specifications, codes, standards, and functional requirements. Strong performance in this role helps reduce design errors, support clash‑free engineering, improve safety study outcomes, and maintain delivery quality across complex oil and gas projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform conceptual studies, FEED work, detailed process engineering analysis, and design activities in line with project specifications, design basis, codes, and standards.
• Prepare and check process calculations, engineering reports, technical procedures, design philosophies, specifications, and project process documentation.
• Develop and review process simulations, heat and material balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams, and process safeguarding diagrams.
• Prepare and check equipment process datasheets, instrument process datasheets, equipment lists, line lists, operating philosophies, startup manuals, and operating manuals.
• Carry out equipment sizing, line sizing, flare radiation calculations, dispersion analysis, depressurization studies, flare network studies, and process studies.
• Provide process engineering inputs for layout reviews, area classification drawings, safety studies, electrical load lists, equipment datasheets, instrument datasheets, ESD logic, F and G logic, and control narratives.
• Support inter‑discipline checks by reviewing design interfaces and providing process inputs that help maintain clash‑free and technically aligned engineering outputs.
• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals for compliance with project requirements and provide clear technical comments where required.
• Raise technical queries to clarify scope, obtain missing information, and maintain alignment with McDermott procedures, project standards, and operational requirements.
• Identify scope changes early and support change notifications, variation order inputs, estimates, and required technical documentation.
• Assist in preparing bid proposal inputs, including technical query reviews, execution statements, work‑hour estimates, and process discipline support.
• Attend project review meetings, engineering meetings, vendor meetings, and offshore site surveys when required.
• Provide technical direction to designers and review design outputs related to process engineering deliverables.
• Guide less experienced engineers on MDR procedures, discipline standards, worksheets, calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, and technical queries.
• Check engineering work performed by others within the process discipline to support quality, consistency, and technical integrity.
• Assist in closing HAZOP action items and participate in safety, operability, reliability, customer, internal, and third‑party technical audits.
• Manage assigned work within agreed deadlines, budgets, and short‑term activity plans while keeping discipline costs and productivity visible.
• Document important communications, decisions, and assigned actions, then share them with the discipline lead engineer and discipline manager.
• Maintain close coordination with engineering disciplines, fabrication, safety, document control, procurement, vendors, subcontractors, customers, planning, and project management teams.