Senior Project/Facilities Engineer

The Opportunity

Vermilion Energy Netherlands B.V. (Vermilion) is a Dutch company that started operations in 2004. We are active in small fields gas production. The natural gas we extract is provided to Dutch residential and business customers. Vermilion has grown into a reliable employer in the Netherlands since inception, with in total, more than one hundred people currently working for us. This includes employees and contractors.

Our parent company is Vermilion Energy Inc. This is a publicly traded company in Canada founded in 1994 near the Vermilion Lakes, where our name originated from. Shortly after its founding, Western Europe became an important growth area for Vermilion. In addition to Canada and the Netherlands, Vermilion Energy Inc. currently operates in 8 other countries. Vermilion's core values are the same everywhere in the world: Excellence, Trust, Respect and Responsibility.

Are you looking for a new challenge, as Senior Project/Facilities Engineer? Read on!

We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Senior Project / Facilities Engineer to join our team at Vermilion Energy Netherlands (Amsterdam). In this role, you will represent VEN’s interests in all aspects of facilities engineering for both construction and operational projects. You’ll be responsible for providing technical and regulatory advice, ensuring adherence to codes and best practices, and managing assigned projects from initial concept through to the turnover of construction documents.

You will play an essential role during the construction phase, supporting throughout project commissioning, as-built documentation, and project closeout. Additionally, any technical matters arising during the operational lifecycle of facilities may be assigned to you, requiring insight into technical issues and follow-up on necessary changes.

What you will do:

Facility Engineering

• Provide technical engineering support to the NBU and represent facility engineering in necessary multi-discipline meetings at all stages of project development

• Work together with different VEN departments (Operations, Maintenance, HSE…) on project scope definition

• Review and work with independent 3rd party contractors in all aspects of facility layout, design and specification, review third party designs and optimize as required to ensure that VEN best practices and standards are met with fit for purpose solutions.

• Provide technical input and participate in drawing reviews, HAZOPS, HAZIDS, WHATIF analysis, SIMOPS, etc and provide technical feedback from a facility aspects

• Complete engineering in house when applicable and/or able

• Use technical knowledge to ensure safety, compliance and operability are achieved on all projects

Project Management

• Manage projects from concept through to construction and hand-over including  budget, schedule and scope control.

• Ensure projects are driven home in a timely, cost effective and safe manner – strive to drive costs out of the business

• Raise AFE’s and track project costs against those AFE’s

• Identify, mitigate and manage project risks throughout the project phase

• Develop and maintain good relations with Vendors, Contractors and Suppliers

• Execute lessons learned sessions upon project completion

Operations and maintenance support

• Initiate (when required) and complete MoC’s and action items from a technical perspective

• Assist operations with any technical issues and provide engineering support and solutions either personally or by seeking third party help and managing that third party with clear scope and deliverables

• Take an active role in plant layout and process safety/control discussions and ensure that best practices and VEN engineering standards are applied to all facilities projects in the facilities team

• Be a leader in proactively providing advice or solutions to save costs or increase efficiencies in operations

Additional Responsibilities

• Be a visible HSE leader conducting site visits and documenting observations and HAZIDS proactively driving a safe culture to everyone involved within a VEN operation including contractors

• Review  technical documentation  for accuracy and completeness and provide markups, feedback and recommendations/comments in a timely manner

• Verify key documents, various specifications, plans, and other technical drawings

• Troubleshoot operational / process related problems and propose solutions together with cost and time schedules

• Provide regular updates and progress reports, produce man hour estimates for the facilities engineering work and track against that estimate when required

• Provide project close out reports and full close out documentation when required

• Conduct additional duties as required by the team lead engineering

What you will bring

• 10+ years relevant industry experience, with emphasis on project management of oil and gas facilities projects

• Understanding of HSE and Asset Integrity Management System structures

• Efficient and precise communication as the position requires interaction with team members, service companies and regulatory agencies

• Strong interpersonal, leadership and critical analysis skills

• Strong team player with the ability to build relationships and work constructively with others to achieve business goals

• Oil & gas Process/Chemical Engineering background preferred

What we offer

You are worth a lot to us, so we offer you:

• A competitive salary that will adapt to the amount of experience that you will bring to Vermilion and furthermore attractive secondary conditions. You are an important part of our progress. Our success depends on our company's success and on your personal success, so you should also benefit from this in the form of an attractive annual bonus, stock options, discounts on various insurances and, additional ''Vermilion days'' (days off)

• We offer permanent employment

• Your health is close to our heart: We support you with a wellness benefit.

• Options to work ''hybrid''.

• We support your bright mind: Training and development opportunities are an integral part of our culture.

• We celebrate our successes: Team spirit and collaboration are important to us, which is why we focus on workshops, team events.

• Strong community investment presence and we are committed to giving back to the communities where our people live and work

Why you will love us

• We care for each other, the environment, and the company and aim to enrich the communities in which we live and work

• We work with the Great Place to Work Institute® as a Best Workplace® in many of our locations around the globe

• We embrace new solutions across the business, allow space for creativity, and invest in innovation and technology

• We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness and can be counted on to do what we say we will

• We invest in our employees providing meaningful work, opportunities for training and professional development.

Vermilion is committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible, and rewarding work environment which highlights employee’s unique contributions to our company’s success. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome all applications to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live and work.   

Outstanding People. Outstanding Opportunities.