Principal Consultant - Reading, United Kingdom - Wood Plc

Wood Plc

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview / Responsibilities:

Overview

Wood is currently recruiting for a Principal Consultant position to be a key member of our growing Asset and Operations Consulting business.

This broad and flexible role will deliver inventive, low investment, high return studies from process yield and energy improvements to logistics optimisation, as well as managing studies and opportunity initiatives.

The role will fit within our Process Consulting group.

This global, in-house consultancy focuses on advising clients, investors and asset owners on making the right investment decisions and enhancing the value of existing assets.

This team has the skills, experience, and creativity to add value from multidiscipline asset assessment and optimisation activities, as well as taking projects through conceptual phases to the establishment of a robust basis of design in the pre-FEED stage.

Responsibilities

Execute and provide technical support to studies within Wood's Process Consulting Group
Work closely with customers to understand their needs and produce studies and services to meet these needs
Coach and mentor less experienced staff
Effectively collaborate across the organisation to utilise specialist skills and knowledge
Identify issues and propose solutions using innovative and novel solutions.
Complete technical study work to a high standard with mínimal supervision
Identify deficiencies and improvements to established Wood methods, standards and data
Develop longterm relationships with clients through collaborative engagements
If required, contribute to conceptual and feasibility studies, and preFEED stages of consulting/projects work, including technoeconomic analysis and specialist support.

Skills / Qualifications:

Due to the range of studies and areas covered, previous experience is required in some of the below areas:
Low cost yield or energy improvement of process plant, either as consultant or in operating role
Tank, jetty and terminal operations, assessment or optimisation
Operating plant process engineering and/or production planning/scheduling experience, ideally in downstream
Operations management
Licensor or operating site experience in downstream technologies
Use of simulation or discrete event modelling of existing facilities
Technical due diligence assessment of process assets
Ability to understand client needs and adapt approaches accordingly. Capability to explain complex concepts and reasoning to clients
Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills, ability to manage own work and the work of others, plus a strong customer focus and teamworking skills
Readily adaptable with excellent communication skills
Ability to analyse logical problems or problems with several relationships, systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify critical components
Clarity in reporting and choice of reporting methods

Company Overview:

Diversity Statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce.

All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.