Lead Process Engineer

Overall target of the position:

 

The Lead Engineers Process have the Leadership, Quality, Technical, Schedule and Cost responsibilities of the Process engineering scope of services assigned to them from the Project take- over till hand-over.

 

Job assignments, measurements & sphere of influence:

 

The Lead Engineers Process lead the Process engineering activities and provide the required engineering documentation within the time schedule, with the required quality, with minimum changes whilst meeting the budget targets.

 

Tasks & responsibilities:

 

Leadership:

 

• Communicate, Enforce and Control:
• Compliance: To Contract, Engineering strategy, Rules and Regulations, Company rules.
• Engineering Targets and Schedule.
• Engineering Processes, Work Instructions and Projects application notes.
• Risks and opportunities
• Energize the team to achieve goal-oriented results.
• Select the best suited processes/working methods for the tasks to be done in order to achieve the highest earned value.
• Remove obstacles and barriers for the team to progress.
• Facilitate agreements within the team and functions.
• Represent its discipline in the Engineering team of a given project.

 

Quality:

 

• Make sure that the Basic Input datasheets for the systems are written at the project start.
• Support the PEM in defining and implementing the Engineering Strategy.
• Control the quality of the documents produced by their team according to contract requirements, Project and Company Rules, processes, notes and work instructions.
• Ensure that the Customers (internal and external) are delivered to their satisfaction with the correct information and data on time.
• Ensure that RMS activities are completed respecting the dedicated procedure (e.g. project contractual requirements applicability on process engineering scope, allocation of requirements to document for his/her scope).
• Identify and conduct Design Reviews and ensure that corrective actions defined by the Design.
• Ensure Gated processes are strictly applied, complying with applicable configuration management procedures.
• Ensure that reviews action items are closed on time.
• Ensure Design freeze process is strictly applied, complying with applicable configuration management procedures.
• Ensure Design Change process is strictly applied (DCR), complying with applicable configuration management procedures,
• Ensure fast processing of NCR’s.
• Ensure fast processing of FSI’s .
• Ensure experience feedback from the project to the Experience Response System.

 

Technical Responsibility:

 

• Represent their engineering scope of supply and services in the project-team.
• Take-over project from the tendering offer as determined by Process Engineer in tendering phase:
• Scope of supply and Division of Work.
• “Delta list” of differences between the reference power plant and the contracted plant.
• Technical and commercial contract documentation as appropriate for their work and their team.
• Risks log file.

Make the contract review:

 

• Review the technical contractual requirements and analyze the rules, codes and standards applicable to Process engineering.
• Identify the contractual Risks and Opportunities and propose technical deviations and clarifications to the PEM.
• Issue the list of Systems and Design Services to be studied and/or
• Execute (with the other Process engineers of their project team and supported by experts) the following Process engineering activities:

the Process (mechanical) systems design i.e.:

 

• the process flow diagrams (PFD),
• the P&IDs and associated components lists (e.g., piping list, valve list, equipment list),
• the System Design Manuals (SDM) excluding the controls logic diagrams, the
• Electrical and I&C interfaces,

 

• The process electrical load list (list of electrical consumers with process engineering data only),
• The piping interfaces list,
• The functional safety studies: HAZOP, safety functions (SIL) requirements, excluding
• Safety Requirements Specification, SIL verification reports,
• Input data for fatigue analysis, per system,
• the Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) studies.
• Provide the PEM with the Process Notes of Applicability, in particular the systems and components and signals coding rules, and the P&IDs.
• Contribute to the Plant Operation and Control concepts,
• Ensure communication within functions (managers), their team and other project teams (MCL).
• Coordinate daily with the other projects LE.
• Cross-checks the Process related Project I&C documents prepared by Operability and
• Controls Lead engineer.

 

Related to Nuclear Safety:

 

• Participate to the determination of Nuclear Safety Classified Items/Components and

Activities

• Ensure that Nuclear Safety Classified Items/Components and Activities are identified and closely monitored in line with Equipment qualification team and supported by the Nuclear Safety Process Engineer.
• Ensure Process engineering project documentation is properly tagged depending the
• Nuclear Safety classified level (compliance with NA183).
• Ensure Process engineering project documentation content is technically checked with the support of the Nuclear Safety Process Engineer.

 

 

• Manage the mechanical and functional interfaces with internal participants (product lines, mechanical packages) and external parties (customer, general designer, partner, supplier),
• Prepare and follow-up the technical aspect of variation orders and claims for their scope of work.
• Participate to the project design reviews & design gate reviews and provide the PEM with necessary documents for design reviews preparations and reports.
• Participates in various coordination meetings (liaison, conciliation, workshops, etc…) with customer/general designer/partner.
• Provide the PEM with the updated Process documents for design freezes and for design changes management.
• Compile the project documentation and organize a proper archiving of all project’s relevant documents with the applicable tools (MTA).
• Close-out related punch items to obtain PAC and FAC.

 

Schedule Responsibility:

 

• Provide input for the preparation of the Engineering Master Time Schedule (MTS). Ensure the Engineering MTS is logical and comment as necessary.
• Prepare and controls the planning and progress measurement (EDM) for the Process activities.
• Report the process engineering activities progress and give EDM inputs in a given frequency to the Process Global Leader.
• Support the PEM in preparation of Project resource management planning.
• Support line manager in preparation of function capacity planning and subsequent staffing according to the project requirements.
• Conduct start-up and regular progress reviews with the assigned engineers.
• Coordinate regularly with the other projects LE about timeliness and completeness of
• Ensure on time delivery of project specific engineering documentation.
• Plan Design Reviews and Design Freezes dates.
• Ensure timely responses on Process issues raised internally by other engineering disciplines as well as by construction and commissioning team (MCL).
• Coordinate and provide the Process documentations ‘as built’ revisions and collect the REX from site.
• Transfer final documentation to Close-out/Customer Service.
• Archive final documentation.

 

 

Cost Responsibility:

 

• Ensure the resources allocated are fully loaded.
• Ensure that the design is in line with the contract requirements, no more.
• Propose ways of improving equipment cost or time to be spent.
• Support the Process Global Leader for the control of hours booked and propose corrections when booking mistakes have been done.

 

 

 

Authority and rights:

 

• To obtain on-time decisions from PEM.
• To participate to technical meeting with internal participants (product lines, mechanical packages) and external parties (customer, general designer, partner, supplier) regarding their scope.
• To select and lead their team members.
• To allocate responsibilities to the assigned engineers.
• To get required capacity from the line organization.
• Technical support from Experts, Line Manager and PEM.
• Access to technical tools and specialists on request.

 

 

Key performance indicators:

 

• Ensure Closing of open actions further to Design Reviews reports,
• OTD: Documents issued according to the engineering time schedule and forecasted dates in EDM,
• DCR opening and writing in due time,
• DCR impact assessment in due time,
• Personal objectives, Targets and Performance Measurements as defined on a yearly basis,
• Ensure NCR answer time,
• Ensure Customer answer time.