Flexibility Solutions Manager – Innovation Jobs at Neom, Saudi Arabia

Job Description:

Sector: ENOWA

Job ID: 7545

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Brine Processing Flexibility:

• Key technical flexibility lead from energy as part of the customer delivery program reporting.
• Advise proponents on thermal vs electrical substitution/complementary opportunities to minimize overall project energy cost and power grid impact.
• Identify and maximise opportunities for thermoelectrical efficiency as well as operational process flexibilities to be incorporated in brine complex design.

Green Stell and Mining Flexibility:

• Identify, evaluate and recommend technical asset investments ENOWA can make in addition to proponent base case assumptions to increase energy (thermal and electrical) flexibility.
• Support TSO, DSO and grid planning teams to understand operational processes and power grid impact risk and opportunities.

Oxagon Manufacturing Cluster Flexibility:

• Advise power modelling and portfolio management teams on the techno-economic characteristics of all identified flexibility options.
• Lead reviewer and content provider for all technical process flexibility specification of RFP, RFQ, SoW and FEED documents (proposals, feasibility, planning, etc.) to enable delivery of energy flexibility.
• Assess and recommend opportunities for innovative technology adoption under the principles of flexibility, sustainability and circularity.
• Technical input in the establishment of and compliance with relevant regulations, codes and standards to support process engineering solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Technical skills:

• In-depth understanding of the fundamental principles of:
  • Chemical and thermal processes and design.
  • Industrial, mechanical, and electrical processes and design.
  • Thermodynamics and HVAC system processes and design.
  • Batch processing and advanced manufacturing techniques.
  • Water pumping, desalination and brine processing technologies.
  • Steel and iron ore mining processes, engineering and design.
• Thorough understanding and exposure to power systems:
  • Congestion and constraint management.
  • Voltage and Reactive power management.
  • Frequency management.
  • Reserve margin.
  • System stability and inertia.
• Proficient in:
  • Energy storage systems (thermal and electrical).
  • Long term network planning and regulatory best practices.
  • Power systems engineering and microgrid technologies.

Knowledge and Experience:

Required:

• Knowledge and understanding of conventional and emerging steel manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge and understanding of conventional and emerging seawater desalination and brine processing technologies. Eg RO, MVR, MED, solar ponds and mineral extraction processes among others.
• Awareness of relevant international codes and standards.
• Ability to leverage process engineering software tools (HYSYS, VERTEX, MySep, Olga, AFT Impulse,) to analyse complex problems and deliver solutions.
• Experience with Programmable Logic Units (PLUs) to implement flexible industrial automation.
• Experience of the application of HAZOP, HAZID and SIL Rating to process design.
• Experience with Concept Selection and FEED studies.
• Understanding of the costs/benefit tradeoffs and techno-economic assessment of industrial process engineering.
• 15+ years’ experience working in a process engineering capacity at any or most of the following industries: chemical, steel, refinery, food processing and large multinational manufacturing or engineering consulting company.

Preferred:

• Good understanding of decentralized energy technologies and other energy efficiency technologies and their potential commercialization in power markets.
• Familiarity with the energy transition and opportunities for power grid transformations.
• Previous experience of working in the Middle East and more specifically Saudi Arabia.

Other Skills and Experience:

• Self-starter, with a consulting and delivery mindset.
• High attention to detail and best in class standards for health, safety, sustainability and efficient operations.
• Ability to bring innovative ideas from inception to actual implementation through clear value propositions and roadmaps.
• Good interpersonal, written and communication (English) skills.
• Ability to operate in a team-oriented and collaborative environment and flexible and resilient to changes due to the greenfield nature of the projects.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder needs and distill complexity to build consensus within a matrix organisation.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and resilience to a dynamic fast changing environment.

Qualifications:

Preferred:

• PhD in a chemical or process engineering field.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status.

Required:

• BEng, MEng / BSc, MSc in Chemical Engineering or related engineering subject.
• Proven track record of process optimisation including references.
• Membership of a recognised professional institute.

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