About the Role
Join our team as a Project Engineer, where you will play a critical role in supporting the safe, efficient and high-quality delivery of Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design and EPCM projects in the oil and gas sector. You will coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities and interfaces, ensuring that delivery meets project scope, schedule, cost, quality, and HSE requirements. In this position, you will support the Senior Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Project Engineering Manager in monitoring engineering progress, resolving project issues, and maintaining effective communication across the project team.
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Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities during Pre-FEED, FEED and Detailed Design to support timely delivery of assigned work packages.
- Support interfaces between project management, engineering, project controls, procurement, construction, commissioning, vendors, and the customer.
- Maintain engineering schedules, deliverable registers, action trackers, interface registers, and project reports.
- Monitor engineering progress, resource requirements, and emerging scope or schedule issues, escalating concerns where appropriate.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary reviews of engineering deliverables, ensuring comments, technical queries, and actions are assigned and closed.
- Support the management of engineering changes, scope growth, project risks, and technical queries.
- Participate in HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, constructability, value engineering and other project reviews, as applicable.
- Support compliance with project procedures, customer requirements, applicable codes and standards, QA/QC processes, and HSE expectations.
- Coordinate vendor technical interfaces and support technical bid evaluations and vendor-document reviews.
- Support construction, commissioning, start-up, handover and project close-out activities.
- Contribute to progress reports, risk reviews, forecasts, proposals, engineering estimates, and execution planning.
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with experience supporting Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design and/or EPCM project delivery.
- Demonstrated experience in a Project Engineer, Lead Engineer or comparable multidisciplinary project delivery role.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities and interfaces on major capital projects.
- Experience on upstream and/or downstream oil and gas facilities.
- Experience with brownfield projects in live operating facilities, including tie-ins, shutdown scopes, debottlenecking, revamp, or production enhancement work, is preferred.
- Experience supporting projects for Middle East operators is preferred.
- Experience delivering projects for ADNOC Group companies is highly desirable.
- Previous experience with a major EPC/EPCM contractor delivering oil and gas projects is preferred.
- Experience working in multi-office or workshare delivery environments is advantageous.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
- Professional membership or registration such as Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer is desirable.
- Project management, engineering management, HSE or discipline-specific professional qualifications are advantageous.
Technical Skills
- Good understanding of Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design and EPCM delivery processes and multidisciplinary engineering interfaces.
- Working knowledge of relevant oil and gas codes and standards, including ASME, API, ISO, NFPA, and IEC, as applicable.
- Good understanding of project planning, scheduling, progress measurement, cost control, and forecasting principles.
- Working awareness of scope management, engineering change control, risk management, and project governance.
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering deliverables and identify interface, constructability, and execution issues requiring resolution or escalation.
- Experience with engineering systems and digital delivery tools such as SmartPlant, AVEVA, Hexagon, BIM/3D model review platforms, and digital workflows is advantageous.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a practical delivery focus.
Soft Skills
- Team Coordination: Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary contributors and support effective team delivery.
- Communication: Clear, concise communication with clients, management, and technical teams.
- Problem Solving: Proactive identification and mitigation of project and technical risks.
- Project Delivery: Good planning, prioritization, risk awareness, and deliverable tracking.
- Collaboration: Effective working relationships with clients, vendors, and internal teams.
- Adaptability: Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced project environments.
- Attention to Detail: Rigorous approach to design reviews and documentation.
- Safety Mindset: Commitment to health, safety, and environment (HSE) standards.
What We Offer:
- Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
- Engaging and collaborative work environment with a commitment to safety and sustainability.
