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Job Title Biomethane Design and Project Engineer
Salary Range TBC
Depot / Department Oxford / Biomethane
Section / Team Strategy and Regulation / Green Gas Solutions
Reports to (job title) Alan Midwinter (Head of Biomethane Projects)
Direct reports (job title(s)) None at present.


Overview of Role:
The Biomethane Design and Project Engineer is responsible for the development and management of quality and cost-effective design concepts, design phase deliverables to deployment and ensuring collation of associated as-built documentation and safety files, for Green Gas Solutions built Assets.

Key responsibilities of the role are

Manage and co-ordinate concept and detailed designs to ensure safe, technical and statutory compliant environments, balancing project performance and stakeholder requirements to ensure the outputs are both functional and economically feasible.
Develop and collaborate on products designs and concepts to deliver best of class innovative solutions, including management of 3D Computer-Aided Designs (CAD), Common data environment (Autodesk Docs) and Building Information Modelling (BIM).
Co-ordinate the delivery of complex project design deliverables, to meet associated contract requirements on multi-discipline engineering activities.
Prepare scoping documents and technical specifications for detailed design, product supply, site work packages
Support procurement events, installation, delivery of industry leading biomethane projects to ensure contractual compliance.
Liaison with internal and external project stakeholders, supporting the evaluating potential solutions, preliminary designs, cost estimates & feasibility options.
Manage design project milestones, project risks & opportunities, schedules and quality
Support project manager in delivering successful planning & environmental permit applications, stage gate requirements,
Supporting project team during in the setting out and delivery phase.
Compile project as-built information and support project team in the compilation of commissioning and handover documentation.

This job will require travel to various locations to visit site and facilitate stakeholder meetings. During key parts of the project such as the setting out and commissioning phases there will be a requirement for staying near the project location for periods of time. 

Main Responsibilities:
To represent the project manager / senior project manager on project scheme development and construction.
Ensure all contract and project activities adhere to legislative and policy requirements.
Proactively manage health, safety, well-being, and environmental aspects throughout the project design and as-built asset record phases.
Generate, co-ordinate, update and report on all project documentation and correspondence logs required to execute a project and to record to support compliance during the asset lifecycle, in a timely manner to achieve project critical success factors.
Identify, develop, and foster excellent relationships with all project stakeholders and supply chain.
Undertake the role of project engineer as required during design activities on new assets.
Execute and manage contract design deliverables in accordance with project agreements, providing accurate information for dissemination within the directorate.
Develop designs for new biomethane installations. This will include layout development and multidisciplinary considerations.


Expertise
Candidates will have a degree level qualification with circa 2+ years post graduate experience, preferably in engineering or project delivery. Candidates without a degree should have a total of 5+ years of similarly relevant experience within either Gas, Water, Petro-Chem or Manufacturing industry.
The successful candidate should ideally with an accredited Health and Safety Qualification (i.e., IOSH) but this is not essential.
Our team primarily deliver biomethane projects (taking the biogas released during the anaerobic digestion of organic waste and conditioning it for use as a sustainable fuel). Skills and knowledge that are directly relevant would be ideal, but skills and knowledge from any process engineering application will be considered beneficial.
Relevant experience of design related activities are essential, and a reasonable ‘multidisciplinary awareness’ would be considered beneficial.
We expect our project engineers to be ambitious about their own development and encourage them, for example, to look towards CEng status (Chartership) with an appropriate engineering institution. (IGEM/IMechE/IET/ICE etc). Candidates should have a clear view on their development trajectory and be prepared to share their aspirations in this regard.
We expect candidates to be proficient with AutoCAD design software, 3D applications would be preferable, together with MS Office and project applications and working in collaborative digital environments (like SharePoint and Autodesk Docs).
We would expect that candidates be passionate to accelerate the UK’s transition to sustainable energy. The candidate’s interest in this transition should be clearly apparent.
Candidates should be familiar with the management of engineering design and / or project delivery and be comfortable taking ownership of tasks and deliverables, with an excellent positive attitude and proven track record in the management of health, safety, and well-being.
Effective communication and collaboration are key success factors in project delivery. In our team, we recognise that all individuals have their own style, strengths, and weaknesses. Candidates should have an awareness of their style and be prepared to provide examples of how they have used their style achieve desired outcomes. This might include influencing strategies and dispute resolution.
We are looking for proactive individuals who are motivated by challenge and are always looking to apply a problem-solving approach
Our Green Gas Solutions Team members are distributed through the UK, most of whom work partly from home and partly from our regional office locations. There is a nucleus in the Southeast of England, but clusters in the Oxford, Edinburgh and Glasgow areas. We welcome candidates from any location but do expect that our staff take advantage of the opportunity to work from regional offices and be prepared to attend team, project and client meetings around the UK at a reasonable frequency.
Complexity
Generally speaking, are the typical problems encountered in this job ….
Mostly routine, with straightforward, rehearsed/scripted solutions, or
Regularly non-routine / complex, with solutions requiring analysis, experience and knowledge.
Describe a typical problem that the job holder is expected to deal with themselves:
Develop and manage the design inputs and outputs, liaising with multi stakeholders to ensure their requirements are incorporated into the designs. Ensure documentation is suitable and sufficient to commence energization of the plant.

Describe a typical problem that the job holder will need to seek advice on:
The compliation of DSEAR records to ensure compliance with the requirements of British Standard 60079 as appropriate.

Describe a typical problem that the job holder will need to escalate for someone else to deal with.
Additional scope of work for costs and inclusion within the design deliverable and contract scope.  

What is the most difficult aspect of this job?
Engaging with multiple internal and external stakeholders specifications to formulate technical and compliant design that meets both gas and water industry specification, and preparing technical waiver documentation for approval when variations to design code occurs.

Does this job require someone who can think strategically / tactically?
Yes.  
Impact
If the job holder ‘gets things very right, or very wrong’, how far reaching would this be inside SGN?
In project delivery, checks and balances exist at multiple stages. The internal impact associated with getting things ‘very wrong’ are likely to involve serious safety breaches leading to HSE interventions, such as enforcement, improvement notices, loss of position, loss of profit and margin on projects. However, getting things ‘very right’ would lead to additional margin and profit, increased career opportunity.

If the job holder ‘gets things very right, or very wrong’, how far reaching would this be outside SGN?
Again, technical checks and balances exist at multiple stages. The external impact associated with getting things ‘very wrong’ are likely to involve potential fatalities, criminal prosecution, reputational damage, loss of opportunity. However, getting things ‘very right’ would lead to additional opportunity, reputational enhancement, increased revenues for customers

To what extent does the job directly contribute to departmental/company objectives?
With a remit to help secure projects and help ensure we are able to deliver them cost effectively and efficiently, the job role directly influences the team’s business plan.

What timeframe does this job mainly operate within (ie. does it deal mainly with current, day-to-day issues, or deal regularly with long term change or strategic issues?)
Combination of short term (reactive), medium term and strategic objectives.

Describe the most impactful decision(s) the job holder will typically make.
The job holder will manage the design, to be compliant with appropriate national and international design codes, ensure a safe and successful plant enters the build phase. The most impactful decision would be to fit the site layout into and around existing hazardous area water assets, to ensure a safe operating environment for both SGN staff, Water Utility Staff and their contractors.

Influence
Who does the job holder interact with within the business on a regular basis?
The immediate (Green Gas Solutions) team, the wider FoE team and key stakeholders, customers and technical consultees in the regulated business.
Who does the job holder interact with outside the business on a regular basis?
Clients, prospective clients and supply chain.
How does the job holder interact with these stakeholders and to what level?(For example, are they exchanging information, building rapport, enhancing SGN reputation, handling complaints, influencing and persuading, conducting complex negotiations?)
Personally responsible for gathering and exchanging technical/commercial design information and building relationships and rapport.

Resource – Who /what are they responsible for?  (Use real numbers, values and examples if possible)
How many, if any, people does the job holder manage / supervise?
Initially, the job holder will not supervise or manage anyone formally, but will manage outputs of sub-contract design teams.
If so, describe at what level this management / supervision is undertaken (eg. do they deal with quality control, work allocation and planning, coaching, recruitment, ‘hard’ people management issues such as sickness absence, conduct, capability etc.?)
Not applicable.
What value budget does the job holder set, manage or spend?
Not applicable.
What assets / equipment does the job holder manage or control?
Asset as-built and design data for Biomethane clean up and injection sites.
What level of projects does the job holder manage or control?
The job holder will manage, supervise and coordinate design aspects of single or multiple individual projects. A project successful project could be worth circa £10m (revenue) each to SGN CS, the capex element of design and records collation is approx. £250k per project.