Overview
Senior Process Engineering Manager Jobs in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at Pearl Recruitment
Title: Senior Process Engineering Manager
Company: Pearl Recruitment
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Job Title: Senior Process Engineering Manager
Job Type: Full-time
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior Management
Location: Calgary, AB
Company Overview
Our client is a full-service EPCM firm supporting small to mid-sized energy, oil and gas, and industrial projects. The company is built around a lean, experienced, multidisciplinary team that delivers practical, cost-effective engineering and project solutions across projects ranging from early-stage studies to detailed design, execution, start-up, and commissioning support.
Job Overview
The Senior Process Engineering Manager will lead the Process Engineering discipline for small to medium-sized EPCM projects in the energy and oil and gas sector.
This role is suited to a senior process engineering professional who can balance technical leadership, project scope, schedule, quality, client expectations, and team management. The successful candidate will provide hands-on technical oversight while also leading employees, contractors, and multidisciplinary project collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Process Engineering discipline across EPCM projects.
- Serve as the primary contact for process engineering matters with project managers, clients, and other engineering disciplines.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, work plans, and discipline deliverables.
- Ensure process engineering deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and aligned with applicable codes and standards.
- Lead, develop, and optimize process design from project inception through design completion, start-up, and commissioning support.
- Support feasibility, conceptual design, pre-FEED, debottlenecking, and cost estimate development.
- Develop and review Process Design Criteria, PFDs, P&IDs, process simulations, calculations, heat and mass balances, process narratives, control narratives, and shutdown keys.
- Participate in HAZIDs, HAZOPs, LOPAs, and other safety reviews.
- Provide process engineering input into DBMs, cost estimates, schedules, engineered drawings, equipment sizing, specifications, datasheets, RFQs, EWPs, bid evaluations, and award recommendations.
- Work closely with clients, project managers, account managers, and internal teams to understand requirements, resolve technical issues, and support project delivery.
- Prepare technical proposals, reports, and documentation.
- Lead technical mentoring, team development, performance input, and support for employees and contractors.
- Oversee quality control within the Process Engineering department.
- Ensure deliverables meet technical, safety, regulatory, QA/QC, and client requirements.
Core Competencies
- Strong knowledge of conventional oil and gas processing, SAGD well pads, central processing facilities, thermal projects, heavy oil pipelines, and related infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of process engineering codes, standards, engineering practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with process calculations, simulations, and process engineering tools such as HYSYS, Symmetry, or similar software.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary project work in a fast-paced EPCM environment.
- Strong client-facing communication skills and sound technical judgement.
- Experience supporting safety reviews such as HAZOPs, HAZIDs, and LOPAs.
- Strong organizational, forecasting, prioritization, and team leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently while coordinating effectively with project teams and senior leadership.
- Strong QA/QC discipline with the ability to review, check, and sign off on engineering work.
- Proficiency with standard EPCM engineering workflows, documentation, and project delivery systems.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Registered as a P.Eng. or P.L.Eng. in good standing with APEGA.
- Senior-level process engineering experience within EPCM, energy, oil and gas, SAGD, thermal, heavy oil, or related industrial projects.
- Experience leading engineers, designers, contractors, or discipline teams is strongly preferred.
Salary
$200,000 to $250,000 CAD .
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