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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Project engineer in petrochemical... Better get experience and goes elsewhere. everywhere is toxic gas.. every plant leaks...(matter of big or small). You will expect to check your plant design with process engineer and issue specification to stupid contractor to build new plant. Tons of standards and codes for you to follow as you construct them.... Risk your life to ensure MOM vessels are properly constructed and registered.....Risk your life going into confine space to check your equipment... Heavy responsibility for the "so call" high paid and not worth..Stress you out as you construct you plant.
For pay wise...expected to get S$7k~8k in early thirties. Estimated EM will give you around 5k... |
Let me try to explain the job scope of a project engineer in a petrochemical industry based on what I know...
A project engineer (at least in the place I work for) does the following:
- executes plant changes (the development and initiation of the project are not done by the project engineer, he/she is only responsible for executing the change i.e. costing of project, securing material, manpower and resources and ensuring the change is excuted within a specific timeframe).
- when the change is completed, he is in charge of ensuring that the change is executed as per plan (going on site to check on the work quality of the contractors that he entrusts the project with)
- alot of paper work involving the project that he executes (from obtaining approval, to project close out to all the costing coordination with vendor/contractors)
- works very closely with the people who develops the projects as they need to know the detail. so alot of time is spent on meetings/discussions with the projects developers/initiators.
Also, I think there's a misconception about the safety in a petrochemical plant. Statistically speaking, people die on the road in car accident much much more frequent than people dying in the petrochemical industry. It's actually much safer to work in the plant than driving to work =) Toxic gas releases, fire and explosions are not as frequent as one imagine it to be. There are many safeguardings in place to prevent people from getting hurt at work (be it equipment or human safeguards).
Pay wise, I would estimate a project engineer in the early 30s to be drawing a total annual package of about S$100K (including all forms of bonus). Hope this information helps.