Lead Process Engineer

To secure a challenging position of a Lead Process Engineer in a company that utilizes my technical expertise together with my organization, communication and leadership skills

* Licensed professional engineer with over 28 years of experience. Skilled in process design, project management, commissioning and operation of a broad range of processes and plants:
- Refineries and gas plants including;
Crude distillation unit
Delayed coking and vacuum recovery units
Kero hydro treating unit
Coker Naphtha hydro treating unit
Reforming unit
Amine unit
Sour Water treatment unit
Produced water recycling unit
- Caustic chlorine plant,
- Utilities including desalination plants, membrane technologies and others.
* My responsibilities included:
- Lead process engineer for a Gas Sweetening Project during biding stage for EPIC.
- Engineering Tie-ins coordinator for C$ 1 Billion revamp project. Responsible for the planning, scheduling and execution of all the tie-ins for the project.
- Process sub-lead during FEED for U&O of a new refinery.
- Group Leader in-charge of detailed engineering design of hydraulics for Kero and Coker Naphtha hydro treating units.
- Group leader during FEED for the hydraulics of a new delayed coking unit.
- Process equipment design and sizing during FEED.
- Supervision of process engineers to design a proprietary process in amine plants.
- Supervision of process engineers to design water treatment plants.
- Reviewing and responding to bid specifications.
- Process design, PFD and P&ID development.
- Planned and executed pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up activities.
- Plants operation and trouble shooting.
* Personal skills include:
- Effective communication skills with different levels of personal, management, engineers, technicians, clients and suppliers.
- Well-organized, detail oriented with outstanding communication skills and problem solving abilities.
- Strong personal skills in computer software like; HYSYS, ProII, PPS (Pressure Profile Suite), Pipenet, Word, Excel, and others. Able to adapt quickly to any software required.
- Work well independently and part of a team.

1976 B.Sc. Chemical Engineering-University of Baghdad, Iraq.

Oct. 1999 Professional Engineering License, Ontario, Canada

*Currently I’m the lead process engineer in the detailed engineering phase of the Sulphur station and pipelines project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. I’m responsible for the technical execution of the process engineering and for control of the budget and schedule associated with the process engineering discipline. I’m also coordinating with other discipline to release the deliverables on time as per the project schedule.
*I performed the following duties at my previous job at Bantrel, Toronto, Canada:
-Engineering Tie-in Coordinator for Petro-Canada refinery project in Montreal, reporting to the Project Engineering Manager. The revamp project includes more than a thousand Tie-ins.
Also I
-Process sub-lead in FEED for U&O of a new multi billion dollar refinery upgrader in Alberta.
-Group leader in FEED for hydraulics of a new Coker unit in the province of Quebec.
-Group leader for the detailed engineering design that includes hydraulic calculations for new Kerosene and Coker Naphtha Hydro Treating Units in the largest refinery in India.
-Responsible for Issuing process data sheets for pumps, control valves and other instruments.
-Responsible for Issuing Line Designation Tables (LDT).
-Worked on detailed engineering of revamping delayed coker and diluent recovery units at Bantrel office in Edmonton for an oil sand project.
-Preliminary process design for cooling towers, air compressors and effluent water treatment plant for a new refinery.