Process Engineer
PR/081941
Posted: 22/04/2026
- Competitive
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Permanent
A staff requirement for a Process Engineer with a North Sea operator client in Aberdeen. Hybrid working available.
Team Lead with line management responsibilities for 1 x Process Engineer and 1 x Production Chemist.
Experience & Qualifications:
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
Team Lead with line management responsibilities for 1 x Process Engineer and 1 x Production Chemist.
- Ensuring the safe operation of company’s upstream facilities; acting as a process safety ambassador, improving ways of working, and delivering plant changes to manage process safety risks to ALARP.
- Driving greenhouse gas reduction; identifying and implementing initiatives to minimise company’s overall emissions.
- Maximising performance through surveillance, production system optimisation (PSO), increasing production, eliminating waste, and reducing costs.
- Employ adaptive thinking to provide technical solutions to project with complex systems to provide best technical and economically robust solutions.
- Responsible for daily surveillance taking appropriate actions using available tools.
- Responsible for start-up requirements and review of Pre-Commissioning procedures for new and existing equipment.
- Assure a plan is in place to maximise equipment availability.
- Review and facilitation of Management of Change where required.
- Support of medium and long term strategic scopes - management and identification of Threats and Opportunities for the facility.
- Responsible for the application of the Process Engineering discipline performance standards and SECE’s. Approve deviations against SECE Performance Standards.
- Provide assurance on Process Engineering discipline health including Performance Standards and SECE compliance.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Proven visible personal and process safety leadership behaviours and experience.
- Significant exposure to upstream operations support. This is an operational position, not a project based role.
- Assessed as Process Engineering Technical Authority.
- Demonstrated track record of collaborative behaviours and influencing skills with an outcome focus.
- Able to be the Engineering / Technical Lead in engagements with external parties such as Regulator and key Stakeholders.
- Able to make priority decisions to ensure best outcome for project facility on Safety, Production and Cost.
- Leader of a team of multi-disciplined engineers driving a strong continuous improvement culture.
- Act as a coach and mentor while being proactive in your own talent management and capability development.
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Courage to stand up for personal convictions and deliver enterprise first outcomes.
- Ability to prepare and review technical drawings, reports and procedures.
- Experience in risk identification, assessment and mitigation.
- Experience of modelling and simulation using standard software packages.
- Either be a Chartered Chemical Engineer or working towards Chartership.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
Lachlan Nicholson
Staff Recruitment Manager
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