Principal Project Engineer

About the Role
The position offers the opportunity to exhibit multi-faceted leadership in offshore engineering projects, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards while driving excellence in project execution. You will lead cross-disciplinary teams, maintain top-tier communication with stakeholders, and utilize your expertise in offshore detailed engineering to deliver sustainable energy solutions effectively.

Key Competencies

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)

• Provides visible safety leadership for offshore detailed engineering projects, ensuring full compliance with the company HSE requirements.
• Accountable for Safety by Design, Constructability, Operability, and Maintainability for offshore facilities including wellhead platforms and topsides.
• Leads and contributes to HAZID, HAZOP, SIMOPS, Constructability, Operability and Maintainability (COM) workshops for offshore scope.
• Ensures offshore-specific risks (marine interfaces, lifting operations, offshore access, brownfield tie-ins) are identified and mitigated during detailed engineering.
• Champions safe engineering practices across multi-office and contractor interfaces.

Leadership & Project Direction

• Provides overall engineering leadership and direction for offshore detailed engineering scope.
• Defines project organization structure and selects discipline leads and key engineering resources.
• Leads multi-discipline, multi-location teams, including onshore and offshore execution centers.
• Sets and drives achievement of project objectives covering scope, schedule, quality, productivity, and cost.
• Mentors discipline leads and senior engineers, addressing capability gaps and performance issues proactively.
• Leads internal and external communications, influencing decisions at client, project, and corporate levels.
• Supports procurement, fabrication, installation, and commissioning activities, managing vendor-related interface issues.

Technical Authority & Offshore Expertise

• Acts as technical authority for offshore detailed engineering execution.
• Ensures consistent application of the company engineering processes, systems, and tools across offshore projects.
• Oversees engineering development of offshore wellhead platforms, topsides, and associated systems.
• Ensures compliance with Customer Basis of Design, ADNOC Offshore standards, and applicable international codes.
• Provides guidance on vendor document reviews, technical bid evaluations, and integration with offshore construction requirements.

Commercial & Financial Acumen

• Applies in-depth understanding of customer contracts and ADNOC commercial frameworks.
• Supports project cost control by tracking engineering deliverables, quantities, and productivity trends.
• Understands offshore cost buildup and gross margin impacts.

Execution Planning & Performance

• Translates contract and proposal commitments into executable offshore detailed engineering scope.
• Oversees development and maintenance of project schedules and engineering resource plans.
• Drives disciplined execution through progress monitoring, reviews, and corrective action plans.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Leads preparation and presentation of offshore project proposals, technical reports, and progress updates.
• Serves as senior technical interface with ADNOC and project stakeholders.
• Drives cross-discipline, cross-location collaboration and clear communication channels.

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Establishes and maintains trusted relationships with ADNOC and key offshore stakeholders.
• Manages stakeholder expectations through clear communication and transparent reporting.

Risk & Opportunity Management

• Leads identification and management of offshore engineering risks and opportunities.
• Ensures compliance with the company risk management procedures.

Experience Profile (Implicit for Principal Level)

• Extensive experience in offshore detailed engineering projects.
• Strong background in wellhead platforms and topside facilities.
• Proven leadership on large, complex, multi-office offshore projects.

Qualifications & Job-Specific Knowledge

• University degree in Engineering or equivalent experience, with professional registration in local jurisdiction.
• Professional registration and/or Certified Project Management Professional from a globally recognized body (IPMA, APM, PMI, AIPM).
• Extensive experience in Offshore EPCM / EPC projects, including offshore detailed engineering and site assignments.

Decision Making

• Makes independent, authoritative decisions on complex offshore engineering and execution matters within established corporate and client frameworks.
• Evaluates options and trade-offs and makes informed recommendations aligned with contract, project objectives, and ADNOC requirements.

Supervision Received

• Works with a high degree of autonomy, receiving assignments defined in terms of broad project objectives.

Supervision Authority

• Assigns offshore project work and provides technical and execution leadership to discipline leads and senior engineers.
• Acts as a mentor and technical reference point for senior staff involved in offshore detailed engineering projects.

Moving Forward Together
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