Senior Project Engineer

Worley

The Role

Overview

On-site engineering lead for Shell projects, coordinating design, construction, and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  • project coordination
  • construction interface
  • engineering delivery
  • safety compliance
  • schedule management
  • technical guidance

Tasks

The Senior Project Engineer will be seconded full-time to Shell Scotford, providing on-site engineering coordination, project execution oversight, and multi-discipline interface management across sustaining capital, brownfield modification, debottlenecking, and turnaround projects. The role ensures that engineering deliverables, construction activities, and field execution align with Shell’s asset requirements while maintaining Shell standards for quality, safety, and technical excellence. This position will be under the direction and control of Shell PMT and will have to manage projects allotted to various EP houses. Will help in bridging engineering, operations, maintenance, construction, and project controls to ensure safe, reliable, and predictable project outcomes. -Track project deliverables and engineering progress, ensuring timely completion of milestones. -Participate in construction readiness reviews, installation sequencing, precommissioning activities, and turnover planning. -Serve as the primary onsite engineering interface between Shell asset teams, Worley & Other EP engineering offices, construction contractors, and project stakeholders. -Ensure engineering decisions support safe execution, operability, and maintainability of assets. -Perform field checks, site verifications, and constructability reviews; identify potential issues early and recommend solutions. -Maintain strong communication across Shell’s operations, maintenance, inspection, HSSE, and project management teams. -Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. -Support development of project scopes of work, engineering estimates, design packages, and construction work packages (CWPs). -Champion Shell and Worley HSSE expectations and ensure engineering and construction activities follow site safety practices and safe work procedures. -Ensure engineering deliverables meet Shell and Worley specifications, industry codes/standards, and regulatory requirements. -Coordinate closely with project controls to support schedule development, progress measurement, and forecasting. -Provide onsite project engineering leadership across the full life cycle of brownfield and sustaining capital projects (concept development through commissioning and closeout). -Support cost awareness by identifying scope growth, potential risks, and opportunities for optimization. -Ensure all engineering and project documentation meets Shell’s internal requirements for safety, operability, reliability, and regulatory compliance. -Identify and address quality issues early; engage QA/QC resources when required. -Participate in risk reviews, HAZOPs/HAZIDs, constructability reviews, and readiness assessments. -Represent Worley professionally while fully integrating into Shell’s site team environment. -Coordinate with EP Contractors /EP houses, multidiscipline engineering activities (mechanical, civil/structural, electrical, instrumentation, process, etc.) to ensure alignment with project scope, schedule, and technical requirements. -Provide technical guidance and leadership to junior and intermediate engineers as required. -Facilitate timely resolution of field queries (RFIs, SQs, TQs). -Ensure efficient flow of information between Shell site teams and Worley & Other EP engineering groups to maintain technical alignment. -Provide daily engineering support to Shell site teams, construction contractors, and maintenance personnel. -Lead clarification and resolution of technical issues arising during detailed engineering, construction, or commissioning. -Steward the management of change (MOC) process, ensuring technical modifications are fully assessed, documented, and approved.

The Company

About Worley

-Expanding globally through steady growth and acquisition. -Broadened reach in Canada, China, the U.S., and beyond. -Merged with Parsons E&C in 2004. -Delivers full-lifecycle services from concept to decommissioning. -Partners on major global projects across energy, chemicals, resources, and power. -Innovates in low-carbon energy and carbon capture. -Large-scale direct air capture engineering in the U.S. -Unified subsidiaries under single identity in 2023, reinforcing integrated engineering model.

Sector Specialisms

Industrial

Energy

Chemicals

Resources

Infrastructure

Water Resources

Utilities

Government

Wind

Solar

Nuclear

Pipeline and Midstream

Heavy Oil Facilities