Facilities/Process Design Engineer

What role you will play in our team

Be a part of our top-tier team of Process Engineers at the Bengaluru Campus which aims to hire experienced professionals to leverage extensive process design and operations expertise, along with strong technical and business judgment skills, leading to drive growth and bring value proposition to the Global ExxonMobil advantaged portfolio. Key capabilities include concept screening and selection, process design and optimization for facilities and offsites, project engineering leadership, facilities surveillance and improvement. Roles that are part of this Job Function support entire ExxonMobil business lines.

What will you do

• In this role, you are expected to deploy Basic, Front End and Detail Process Engineering expertise across both projects and operations with focus on development, optimization and technical follow-up of facilities design specifications, concept screening and selection, optimization for greenfield & brownfield project scope.
• You will be providing global Facilities Engineering support from a centralized organization supporting wide variety of projects and/or operating facilities, ranging from: small projects to major capital projects, greenfield to brownfield, onshore to offshore, sweet to sour designs, conventional/unconventional oil and gas production to LNG and downstream Refining and Chemicals.

Concept Selection and Optimization

• Support studies on Facilities Planning & Technology Selection through Concept Selection, Pre-FEED & preliminary cost estimation and prepare feasibility reports, as individual contributor or SME for assigned area of responsibility, interfacing with other disciplines.
• Lead/contribute to an integrated team for developing scope definition of various facility concepts and analyzing/recommending results to maximize business value. Ensure full alignment of recommended scope with Business Teams, Manufacturing Site/Operations, Process Technology Specialists and Engineering Specialists providing design input to cost estimating models.
• Support the development of early Heat & Material Balances, Process Flow Diagrams, Design Philosophies and Design Basis documentation for new facilities in the Facilities Planning Stage & implement principles of the Right Scope Framework for concept stage projects.
• Lead or participate in early optimization studies, field verifications, and equipment sizing.
• Drive or participate in facilities and systems reviews and provides resolutions as required, including P&ID review, HAZOP, 3D Models review and other relevant reviews.
• Responsible for development of the Project O&U basis and the integration of the O&U facilities within the existing plant or the new plant design, integrating other disciplines to ensure technical quality and completeness of facilities definition.
• Develop planning documentation for internal company reviews for funding recommendation
• Provide mentoring, oversight and perform technical reviews of the work of less experienced engineers, ensuring delivery of quality and capital efficiency while meeting schedule requirements

Project Development and Front End Engineering Management

• Lead integrated project teams for early project development and concept selection activities and contribute towards Engineering Surveillance of contractor deliverables during FEED and Detailed Design.
• Technical leadership for projects in Process Design and addressing complex technical challenges, supporting and leading projects from concept through commissioning and startup.
• Ensure quality, compliance with job specification, design methods and safety factors of process design deliverables created both by contractors and by ExxonMobil self-perform methods in all stages of capital projects
• Ensuring compliance with job specification, design methods and safety factors are correctly applied in the design.
• Providing operability reviews for start-up, normal, turndown, and shutdown modes. Establishing design basis for normal and alternate operating conditions
• Participate/lead design reviews, Risk Assessments, HAZOPs, vendor bid evaluations, and project readiness reviews
• Review Utilities specifications, including steam generation / distribution systems, water supply / treating, fuel systems, compressed air / nitrogen systems, cooling water system, safety systems and power generation.
• Develop project schedule to appropriate level of detail and set key milestone dates to support project goals, including aligning with turnaround milestones and unit outages.
• Develop project Road Map with input from key stakeholders and manage internal and external interfaces.
• Develop project resource plans, manage development phase budget, track scope changes, and coordinate cross-functional project support including benchmarking, cost and schedule estimating, and execution planning
• Determine contractor scope of work for pre-FEED/FEED, monitor contractor performance against plans and job specification, and develop improvement plans to address any performance gaps.

About you

Skills and Qualifications:

Required Skills and Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree (B.E. / B. Tech) or Higher in Chemical Engineering from an AICTE recognized university
• Authorization to work in India
• Minimum 8 years of prior experience in Owner / manufacturing / technical services/ Process Design in Projects would be preferred

Functional Competencies:

• Proven background in Process Design, Process operations or Technical Service support for Oil and Gas production facilities, Refinery or Petrochemical plants with demonstrated experience in Upstream, Downstream and Low Carbon Solutions domain. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Conventional & unconventional Onshore production facilities, pipelines, tank batteries, and sales gas compression
• Offshore Oil and Gas production, including platforms, FPSO, FPU, FLNG and FSRU
• LNG Liquefaction & Regasification facilities, NGL Recovery, Sour Oil and Gas Treatment
• Produced Water Treatment
• Associated Safety Systems
• Refining Processes, Chemical Processes, Hydrogen & Ammonia generation
• Carbon capture & sequestration
• Knowledgeable in the selection and application of Offsites and utilities systems aforementioned areas
• Comprehensive understanding of safety aspects in design, hazard identification/risk assessment techniques, fire protection, and pressure relief analysis
• Design new process equipment and evaluate existing equipment to ensure compliance with modified operating parameters.
• Preferred Experience in planning and executing brownfield modifications

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