Senior Production Chemist / Process Engineer

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.                             

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone? 

 JOB TITLE: SENIOR PRODUCTION CHEMIST / PROCESS ENGINEER

Main Purpose of the Role:

• To act as Petrofac Malaysia’s Senior Process Engineer/Production Chemist under Asset Operations Department.

• Ensure plant uptime, availability, reliability and optimization and facilitating operations of the plant;

• To perform troubleshooting of related topside process issues;

• Provide advice on process engineering, flow assurance and production chemistries; and

• Lead contract(s) development and management under Process Team.

Primary Duties:

• Acting as Responsible Person for Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) related to the discipline of Process;

• Prepare, review and control budgets under Work Program & Budget (WP&B) for production chemical, flow assurance and laboratory services;

• Providing advice to the Asset on matters related to production chemistry;

• Performing process engineering/flow assurance/production chemistries simulation and studies for troubleshooting, optimisation and debottlenecking purposes;

• Develop, lead and execute project related activities covering operational process engineering, production chemistry application, flow assurance, and brown field modification;

• Participation in the Management of Change (MOCs) and Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) processes.

• Update and review developments of standards, procedures, engineering drawings and documentation particularly for operational and site-specific documents;

• Review and provide inputs for new development and greenfield design to ensure it meet operational safety, integrity, and practicality during operation phase; and

• Assume the role of Process Technical Authority as a delegate when necessary.

Problem Solving:

• Due to the dynamic nature of production operations, it is essential that the candidate possesses troubleshooting experience in solving critical issues effectively and efficiently, have good soft skills, able to provide justification and explanation to related technical issue that he/she handled.

• Management of produced water effluent within regulatory guidelines avoiding pollution events.

• Coordinate with Subsurface team to analyse and provide a good judgement and recommendation to optimize the facility, handle Scale, Sand and H2S issues and evaluation in CO2 mol% in impacting corrosion and mitigation thru membrane separation or chemical.

Desired Skills and Technical Experience:

Essential working experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience working in the operational phase of an Oil & Gas asset.

• Candidate must have vast experience in a technical support role for offshore Oil & Gas facilities;

• Extensive experience in working with supply chain department in development and management of oilfield chemical and laboratory services contracts; and

• Proven track record in project delivery.

Essential technical experience in:

• International Codes and Standards and PETRONAS guidelines and standards relevant to the discipline of Process;

• Upstream facilities design and operations including troubleshooting, optimisation, risk assessment and operating instructions;

• Production chemistry, in particular on waxy crude production and contaminants management;

• Flow assurance;

• Process plant debottlenecking, optimization and adequacy check; and

• Root Cause and Failure Analysis.

Preferred experience:

• Development of contracts for the discipline of Process;

• Experience in Process, Flow Assurance Simulations; and

• Experience in managing critical contract such as integrated chemicals contract, well verse with its technical requirement, field exercise and deliverables.

Required skills:

• Communication, presentation and technical report writing skills;

• Being able to be innovative in finding solutions;

• Being able to be a team player and inspired others; and

• Able to lead and provide guidance to junior engineers and other team members.

• Quality and cost conscious.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor Degree from a recognised university in the discipline of Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering;

• Preferred Professional/Chartered Engineer status.

• Offshore Medical and Survival certificates.