Process Engineering Summer Placement - 2026 - Aberdeen

Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd.; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy consultancy is seeking a Summer Placement student in their Aberdeen office. This role is aimed at Chemical Engineering students in their penultimate year, offering hands-on experience in oil and gas as well as energy transition projects. You’ll use advanced software design tools like HYSYS and collaborate across disciplines such as Field Development Planning. Mentoring and exposure to client interactions will support your professional development. Applications close on 1st February at 10 PM.

Benefits

Mentoring and buddy support

Technical depth in engineering

Client exposure

Qualifications

• Must be a Chemical Engineering student in penultimate year.
• Right to work in the UK is necessary.
• Ability to quickly learn new software tools.

Responsibilities

• Assist in traditional oil and gas and energy transition projects.
• Collaborate with the Process Engineering team.
• Gain exposure to fields like Safety & Environmental and Flow Assurance.

Skills

Knowledge of software design tools

Collaboration across disciplines

Engineering principles

Education

Chemical Engineering degree (penultimate year)

Tools

HYSYS

Gen-CAT

ADEPT

Job description

Moving to a new, sustainable low-carbon energy world requires knowledge, ambition, and a pioneering spirit. Genesis employs over 600 world-leading engineers around the globe who enable innovative solutions across the traditional hydrocarbon and energy transition sectors every day.

As a 2026 Summer Placement student at Genesis, you will be given the opportunity to broaden your experience in traditional oil and gas and energy transition projects, and potentially help to develop internal tools which help enable our engineers every day.

You will be based in our Aberdeen Office, centrally located on Albyn Place, where you will have the opportunity to learn how to use a range of software design tools which are used within our industry such as:

• HYSYS
• Genesis bespoke in-house tools like:
• Gen-CAT for Carbon Assessments,
• ADEPT for Cost Estimation and Field Evaluation.

While at Genesis you will be situated within the UK Operating Centre Process Engineering team, however, you will also get experience collaborating with other disciplines, including:

• Field Development Planning, Flow Assurance,
• Safety & Environmental,
• Dynamic Simulation and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

To support your studies, we are proud to offer:

• Technical depth and rigour of engineering experience.
• Mentoring and a buddy support system.
• Client exposure and business development.

Please Note: This role is open to Chemical Engineering Students who have completed their penultimate year of study. Applications will close on Sunday 1st February at 10 PM.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We invite you to learn more about our company by visiting www.genesisenergies.com and following us on LinkedIn for company updates.

“As an equal opportunity employer Genesis Energies considers only qualified applicants without regard to colour, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability, national origin, veteran or marital status