Principal Engineer – Chlorine
PR/080192
Posted: 11/12/2025
- Competitive
- Qatar, Doha
- Permanent
Employment Type: Permanent
Industry: Petrochemical / Chlor-Alkali
Role Overview: You will lead and coordinate all activities related to a Chlorine Plant, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations. The role covers production planning, technical support, shutdown/turnaround planning, people development, and continuous improvement to meet production, cost, quality and HSE targets. You will act as deputy to the Plant Manager when required.
Key Responsibilities
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Industry: Petrochemical / Chlor-Alkali
Role Overview: You will lead and coordinate all activities related to a Chlorine Plant, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operations. The role covers production planning, technical support, shutdown/turnaround planning, people development, and continuous improvement to meet production, cost, quality and HSE targets. You will act as deputy to the Plant Manager when required.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to and implement plant strategies, policies and procedures in line with business objectives.
- Lead the plant operations team:
- Set objectives, manage performance and coach/develop staff
- Implement competency development and on-the-job training programmes
- Oversee budgets and operational plans:
- Monitor financial performance vs. budget
- Plan medium/long-term operations and maintenance activities
- Approve production planning assumptions and ensure asset performance targets are met
- Lead production planning and scheduling:
- Translate operational strategy into monthly/daily production plans
- Coordinate shift operations to meet production and quality targets
- Supervise plant operations:
- Set and adjust production parameters
- Ensure adherence to quality specifications and process safety requirements
- Coordinate with maintenance for new equipment, reliability and maintenance activities
- Provide technical guidance on:
- Start-up, shutdown, commissioning and testing of new equipment
- Turnaround planning, execution and success criteria
- Monitor and improve KPIs related to production performance, maintenance and HSE; drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure proper use and administration of SAP or similar systems for planning, scheduling, materials and reporting.
- Ensure strict compliance with quality, health, safety and environmental procedures, including process safety management.
- Represent the plant in internal and external technical meetings, and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders (maintenance, materials, contractors, service providers, customers, regulators).
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or relevant engineering discipline.
- Minimum 9 years’ relevant experience in a similar role within the petrochemical industry (chlor-alkali / chlorine plant experience strongly preferred).
- In-depth knowledge of:
- Petrochemical plant operations
- Production processes and quality assurance
- Health & Safety and process safety management
- Preventive/predictive maintenance systems and techniques
- Proven leadership in:
- Managing production teams and plant operations
- Planning and execution of shutdowns, turnarounds and critical operations
- Driving continuous improvement and KPI-based performance management
- Strong interpersonal, communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
- High level of integrity, analytical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Alecz Palas
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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