Process Engineer
Duration: 6 months renewable
Location: Amersfoort, with occasional travel to various locations across the Netherlands
Schedule: Monday - Friday
Start date: September 2026
Contract type: PAYE
Position Overview
This Process Engineer opportunity is focused on a major energy infrastructure project supporting the development of a new transportation network for hydrogen and CO?. The Process Engineer will contribute across concept selection, basic design, FEED, construction, and commissioning, making this Process Engineer role well suited to candidates who want broad technical exposure and visible project impact. This position offers the chance to work within a multidisciplinary engineering environment on a project that supports industrial decarbonisation in the Netherlands and Germany. For candidates seeking a technically challenging Process Engineer position, this Process Engineer role offers involvement in complex system design, operational development, and engineering coordination.
Role Context
This role sits within the energy infrastructure sector and supports a cross-border pipeline development project connecting major industrial clusters. The scope includes underground hydrogen and CO? pipelines, together with related stations and connections to national and international infrastructure. The role forms part of a core engineering team working through multiple project phases in a multidisciplinary environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide process engineering input into venting concepts, depressurisation concepts, safeguarding strategies, and operational concepts.
- Prepare, update, and review process descriptions, Design Basis Documents, operational philosophies, and process narratives.
- Develop Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), mass balances, and hydraulic concepts.
- Perform technical studies and evaluate design alternatives to support engineering decision-making.
- Develop operational scenarios covering normal operation, start-up, shutdown, maintenance, depressurisation, pigging operations, and commissioning.
- Support studies related to dense-phase CO? transport, hydrogen transportation, phase behaviour, and pressure and temperature profiles.
- Incorporate outcomes from HAZID, HAZOP, and other safety studies into engineering deliverables.
- Coordinate with process control, pipeline engineering, instrumentation, mechanical engineering, and operations teams.
- Review contractor deliverables and provide technical input across engineering phases.
Qualifications & Experience
- Essential: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Essential: 2 to 8 years of relevant experience in energy infrastructure, the process industry, hydrogen projects, or carbon capture and storage.
- Essential: Experience with process design and process engineering documentation.
- Essential: Experience using simulation software such as Aspen HYSYS or equivalent tools.
- Essential: Fluent 3Dutch langueage
About the Company
This company is a European energy infrastructure business with one of the largest high-pressure gas pipeline networks in Europe, spanning more than 15,000 kilometres across the Netherlands and northern Germany. The company operates as an independent gas transport provider with a cross-border network and also delivers services in gas infrastructure, including gas storage and LNG. This opportunity supports work connected to the ongoing energy transition and major industrial decarbonisation initiatives.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of clients. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, the geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure, and expertise within the organisation is unparalleled. If this opportunity is of interest, please apply now.