Process Discipline Lead

Accountabilities 

• Developing, maintaining and sustaining the process engineering capabilities needed to deliver the engineering function
• Guide development of pragmatic, fit-for-purpose process engineering solutions for all projects.
• Ensuring that the process engineering staff deployed to the business are suitably qualified and experienced (SQEP) and capable of fulfilling their assigned roles.
• Acquiring and allocating internal process engineering resources, enabling resource mobility, and optimising resource deployment to maximise value.
• Working to develop, maintain and apply process engineering procedures, standards and guides.
• Recommending process engineering Supply Chain capability requirements and links with parent companies and professional bodies to develop a strategic network of resources and ready access to subject matter experts.
• Selection, SQEPing and appointment of Principal Engineers and direct reports.
• The leadership, mentoring, health, safety, career development and performance management of direct reports.
• Ensuring that appropriate single discipline design reviews are carried out and multi discipline design reviews are supported in a timely manner.
• Providing consultancy support, advice and guidance on process engineering matters.
• Providing process engineering support to ensure that design engineering related risks are identified and mitigation plans developed.
• Supporting communication and liaison with regulators as required.
• Reviewing pertinent process engineering legislation and ensuring that relevant requirements are incorporated in engineering procedures.
• Collation and dissemination of process engineering LFE.

Authorities

• To work within financial delegation
• Appointment of Principal Engineers.
• In conjunction with the Head of Engineering, set the strategy for recruitment and management of process engineering resources
• Recruitment, deployment and redeployment (mobility) of process engineering resources.
• Intervention to resolve conflicts and, if necessary, recommend suspension of work related to process engineering matters.
• Access to enable process engineering related audits to be conducted.
• Approval and implementation of process engineering procedures, guides and standards.
• Prioritisation and allocation of work assignments within process engineering.

Qualifications 

Minimum – BEng (Hons)
Preferred – MEng (Hons)

Professional Membership: Chartered Engineer MIChemE 

NOTE: Equivalent experience can be offered in lieu of chartership if it is deemed appropriate by the Head of Engineering

Experience 

• Extensive experience in process engineering. In addition, will have extensive recent experience working in regulated and quality assured systems in nuclear roles where engineering judgement is a key attribute.
• Extensive experience of delivering complex process engineering packages, for a number of plant types at different lifecycle stages, demonstrating the capability to lead a dedicated team with an established reputation in this field at national/international level.
• Experience of using knowledge and expertise from elsewhere to develop new ideas/ways of working to provide added value while managing the delivery variations and identifying innovations to support future development.
• Extensive experience of interfacing with other discipline specialists as well as leading a multi-disciplinary team, e.g. other engineering disciplines, shielding, safety etc.
• Experience in acting as an Intelligent Client/Independent Subject Matter Expert within the assurance process (e.g. design review, peer review, independent technical assessment etc.).
• Experienced in undertaking the role of lead author/checker/approver for complicated process engineering activities and deliverables for high hazard category facilities/plants.
• Experience and direct involvement of the approval of process engineering proposals to support new business cases and strategies at client sites.
• Experience of chairing governance reviews, design reviews and any other gate reviews to accept designs, strategies and provide technical governance.