Lead Project Engineer Multi/P&M

As an Engineer in the petrochemical sector, you play a leading role in the design, development and improvement of a plant and you work closely together on the largest projects. Together with a team of experts, you will provide efficient and sustainable solutions that meet the highest standards.

Responsibilities

• You develop and safeguard the project's technical basis, design philosophy, scope, and battery limits.
• You lead and integrate engineering across disciplines, with a focus on M&P. The other disciplines include process, E&I, automation, civil, safety, and infrastructure.
• You organize design reviews and assess designs for safety, compliance, functionality, reliability, maintainability, constructability, and lifecycle value from a TCO perspective.
• You translate process and project requirements into robust Mechanical & Piping concepts and safeguard the quality of layouts, P&IDs, equipment specifications, piping classifications, piping routes, and isometrics.
• You assess various technical solutions for feasibility, safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• You direct and challenge EPCm partners, suppliers, and contractors on technical content, quality, schedule, and completeness of deliverables.
• You organize technical decision-making, make assumptions and deviations visible, and ensure traceable decisions and actions.
• You identify technical and project risks and assess the impact of choices and changes on scope, schedule, costs, execution, and business continuity.
• You support technical specifications, tender packages, bid evaluations, supplier selections, and contractual technical clarifications.
• For Mechanical & Piping, where relevant, you follow up fabrication, inspections, FAT, delivery, installation, SAT, and punch lists through to mechanical completion.
• You provide engineering support during construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, and handover.
• You support the Project Manager with clear technical recommendations and transparent reporting to stakeholders.
• You coach engineers and contribute to standards, methods, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing within Project Engineering.

Requirements

• You hold a master's degree in a technical field, or have an equivalent level through demonstrable experience. A degree in electromechanics or chemical technology.
• You have extensive experience in technical design and engineering in an industrial or process environment. You also have demonstrable specialist knowledge of Mechanical & Piping engineering within the process industry or a heavy industrial environment.
• You have experience with multidisciplinary CAPEX projects from concept through execution and completion.
• You can provide technical direction to engineering partners, suppliers, and contractors and critically assess their deliverables.
• You are familiar with relevant standards and good engineering practices for Mechanical & Piping, such as PED, ATEX, and EN 13480.
• A VCA-VOL certificate is required, or you must be willing to obtain it before the assignment starts.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD Plant 3D is an asset.
• You can work with project controls: scope, schedule, costs, risks, changes, and stakeholder management.
• Non-technical profile requirements
• You combine technical depth with a broad overview, decisiveness, and pragmatic problem-solving skills—consistently across all disciplines.
• You can explain complex technical topics clearly.
• You work in a structured, independent, and results-oriented manner and demonstrate clear ownership.
• You communicate fluently in Dutch and professionally in English.

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