The Senior Development Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Providing development engineering and project management support for early-phase developments and modifications.
• Ensuring that process safety aspects are properly evaluated in all project phases.
• Participating in design verifications, LOPA, HAZID, HAZOP and constructability meetings.
• Adhering to Stage Gate, Project Management and Engineering Management standards.
• Delivering development engineering early-phase projects and modification scopes. Leading the evaluation of cross-functional technical solutions, considering diverse alternatives to recommend optimised solutions.
• Generating and project managing Appraise and Select scopes of work, project strategies and project governance documentation. Producing project documents including preliminary Project Execution Plans, SORs, BODs, and framing charters.
• Managing and providing technical support to study contractors to efficiently deliver Appraise and Select work scopes against agreed budgets and schedules.
• Delivering efficient handover of development opportunities to project/execution teams at an appropriate stage (typically define entry).
• Working with Discipline Specialists to generate cost estimates, schedules, and economics to support opportunity planning and business case assessment.
• Preparing budget/AFE requests and decision support packages for approval.
• Presenting project updates and recommendations to stakeholders and the JV.
• Developing assurance and governance documentation appropriate to scale and complexity ahead of Phase Gate/MOC and ensuring effective close out of any actions.
• Ensuring early phase data is properly retained, with appropriate benchmarking, lessons learned and decision records, even where opportunities are not progressed.
• Developing and implementing contracting and procurement strategies in alignment with supply chain.
• Evaluating and recommending suitable technical solutions, giving appropriate consideration of diverse alternatives and ratifying contractors' evaluation of technology. Ensuring that industry best practices and appropriate advanced technologies are applied in early project framing.
• Initiating and responding in a timely manner to technical queries, MOCs and deviations from Contractors, Partners, and Operations to maintain technical design integrity.
• Participating in inter-discipline technical meetings, technical audits, assurance reviews and Project Risk Management processes. Leading integrated Project Team meetings with participation from disciplines and support functions across the company.
• Supporting other disciplines to ensure inter-discipline design coherence and ensuring proper Technical Interface Management is maintained throughout the project cycle.
• Providing specialist support to other engineering/asset and business development work as required (e.g. data room support, area planning, etc).
• Supporting consistent application of processes, systems, and procedures. Identifying and sourcing functional assistance to support development engineering activities.
• Acting as role model for colleagues, coaching less experienced team members and promoting good communication and a positive work environment.

Experience/Qualifications:

• A degree qualification in an Engineering discipline is essential. A Chemical/Process Engineering degree would be preferred.
• Chartered Engineer status is essential.
• Previous experience in a similar Senior Development Engineer type role, directly within the North Sea Oil & Gas industry, is essential.
• Experience in a similar role, directly with an Operator/E&P company, would be preferred.
• Experience in an early-phase project role is essential.
• Applicants should have experience in direct operations and facilities support roles.
• Applicants should have significant experience across a range of facilities engineering and operations disciplines and should be able to demonstrate a broad cross-functional understanding, including brownfield, greenfield, subsea and drilling.
• Experience across a range of projects, through all development phases (Appraise, Select, Define, Execute and Operations), is essential.
• Applicants should have demonstrable experience with project development concepts and processes, stage gates, associated regulatory requirements, cost estimating requirements and development planning.
• Applicants should have experience of managing contractor/consultancy studies.

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