Honeywell
Lead Engineering Associate II – Process Optimization (APC/WFC/BMA)
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 20/03/2026
Job overview
Date posted
03/02/2026
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 15,000 - 20,000 per month
Compensation
Salary only
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
20/03/2026
Job description
The Lead Engineering Associate II – UAE National Only role is a direct staff position based in Abu Dhabi with hybrid working arrangement and significant regional travel, supporting process optimization initiatives across the Middle East. The role involves team and job shadowing assignments from study phase through design, implementation, documentation, delivery, and maintenance of process optimization solutions including APC, WFC, and BMA. The position applies chemical engineering principles such as heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and control theory to deliver advanced process optimization solutions for Oil & Gas, refinery, chemical, and minerals industries. The incumbent collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, runs simulations, compiles and analyzes data, supports digital integrations, and communicates technical findings and business impact to internal and customer stakeholders. The role includes learning and applying software technologies for process optimization, supporting design specifications, quality assurance testing, customer acceptance, change management, training documentation, and ensuring quality delivery through structured testing artifacts. The position reports directly to the Engineering Manager for process optimization and is billable to external customer projects, with approximately 60% travel primarily across the Middle East region.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to technical discussions related to asset performance, digital integrations, and data driven models
- Apply scientific, mathematical, and chemical engineering principles to solve engineering problems and improve industrial processes
- Design, propose, implement, review, and correct engineering plans to ensure company and project goals are achieved
- Compile and analyze engineering and process data using computer-based tools and software
- Travel to work sites and customer locations to understand project needs, support implementation, and learn design requirements
- Assist in establishing project budgets, schedules, and timelines
- Support development of conceptual, user requirement, functional, and detailed technical design specifications for process optimization applications including APC, WFC, and BMA
- Establish acceptance of engineering designs with customer stakeholders and translate process and system changes into business and bottom-line impact
- Ensure test scripts, test data, test logs, and defect logs are prepared and maintained to ensure quality delivery
- Support customer change management by preparing business process diagrams, training materials, best practice documentation, and conducting training sessions
- Share technical knowledge with project teams, supervisors, own discipline, and other engineering disciplines
- Communicate technical issues to internal teams and escalate risks or challenges early during project execution
Experience & skills
- Hold a minimum Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering
- Be a UAE National as required for the position
- Preferably hold industrial IT technology certificates such as Visual Basic, Python, or other state-of-the-art programming languages
- Demonstrate capability to work on process optimization solutions across Oil & Gas, refinery, chemical, and minerals industries
- Be available for approximately 60% travel primarily within the Middle East region