Senior Project Engineer

About the Role
The company is actively seeking applications for a Senior Project Engineer role to support future growth in our expanding business. The projects team focuses on delivering across FEED, Pre-FEED, Brownfield, and Greenfield scopes of work. In this role, you will be responsible for the execution of project work in accordance with the project execution plan, including the company and/or Project Procedures on Safety and Quality Control within the man-hour, cost, and the project schedule targets. This is a long-term assignment based in Qatar.

Responsibilities
The Senior Project Engineer will be responsible for the execution of project work in accordance with the project execution plan, including the company and/or project procedures, while maintaining safety and quality within the manhour, cost, and project schedule targets. Multi-skilled personnel are sought, particularly those with experience in:

• Onshore Oil and Gas
• Offshore Oil and Gas

Typical Responsibilities

• Champion both the company and client Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality cultures, leading by example in ‘raising the shield’ and demonstrating the ‘courage to intervene’.
• Support the delivery of project and engineering excellence in support of Project and Engineering Managers on assigned project scopes.
• Take ownership of assigned project scope and activities, ensuring timely delivery to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers while adhering to applicable procedures, work practices, specifications, and standards.
• May be appointed as the Proposal, Study, or Project Manager with guidance from more senior management for small to medium-sized scopes of work.
• Coordinate activities and collaborate with Lead Engineers, engineering disciplines, and supporting departments to ensure tender and/or project scopes are interpreted correctly and deadlines are met.
• Manage and coordinate multi-discipline engineering scope, inputs, and deliverables across multiple geographic locations, including specialist and high-volume engineering centres.
• Ensure Engineering disciplines comply strictly with the contract and scope of work in completing project activities.
• Ensure the quality of project and engineering deliverables before issuing to the customer, taking responsibility for the approval of key deliverables as required.
• Take responsibility for the coordination and development of key project and multi-discipline deliverables such as the Project Execution Plan, Project Plans / Procedures, Basis of Design, Subcontract Scopes of Work, Design Reviews, Study Reports, Project Trackers / Lists, and project plans.
• Coordinate the development of method statements, deliverable lists, manhours, cost time resources (CTRs), and risks in support of both tender and project scopes.
• Ensure the project is delivered in the correct sequence, highlighting and managing risks if works are completed out of sequence.
• Chair and minute technical and project review meetings with customers, vendors, subcontractors, and other third parties, managing technical and project issues through to completion.
• Lead site surveys and data gathering activities for brownfield scope of work, taking responsibility for the development of the site survey report.
• Support the project and engineering managers in flagging project and technical risks, taking responsibility for related actions and closeout of such.

Qualifications
Experience:

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Enrolled on the Register of Engineers in the State of Qatar as a Grade A or B Engineer is desirable.
• Ideally, candidates will have further education and certification in the field of Project Management, PMP or APM for example.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications for document development, presentations, trackers, and schedules.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and highly driven individual with high standards, attention to detail, and capable of demonstrating initiative.
• High level of commercial aptitude and awareness, able to interpret and follow the contract while raising potential delays, changes, and commercial matters to the Project and Engineering Managers in good time.
• Excellent communication skills, able to motivate teams positively and ensure a proactive approach in delivering timely solutions.
• Extensive experience across the full project lifecycle, notably in risk and change management, ideally with exposure to both design and site works.
• Experience working in a variety of projects and contract scopes, including greenfield and brownfield, on and offshore, from Pre-FEED through to EPC, with a focus on offshore upstream.
• Experienced across multiple project phases such as Concept/Feasibility, Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Start-Up, and Warranty.
• Demonstrated customer focus and ability to respond to customer needs while achieving project and corporate objectives.
• Ideally has experience with Qatar O&G customer standards and local regulatory requirements.
• Experience guiding and mentoring other project and discipline engineers in delivering work scope.
• Experience in project cost control and planning systems.

Applicants are required to:

• Be available for work in Doha, Qatar.
• Confidently deliver assigned scopes of work independently while leading others, with minimal guidance and direction.
• Have demonstrable experience of working independently/remote from technical leadership personnel, although functional leadership will be within the Doha office.
• Have demonstrable experience of working within a small project office, supporting cross-discipline activities beyond their core discipline.
• Be willing and able to represent the firm in both onshore and offshore surveys, holding relevant certifications or willing to undertake suitable training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness.
• Possess proficient written and spoken communication skills in English, able to interpret and disseminate complex scope and contract documents.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders in industry across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; actively committed to diversity with employee networks giving all employees a voice.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews aligned with market standards.
• Life Insurance that provides payment of 2 x Base Salary (up to a maximum of QAR 1 million) upon death.
• End of Service Gratuity in line with Qatar Labor Law, with eligibility for three weeks for every year of service, after 1 year of service.
• Medical Insurance ensuring coverage (up to a maximum of QAR 250,000 per person, per year) for treatment needs.
• Employee Assistance Programme, offering confidential support for work or personal issues that affect mental, physical, social & financial well-being.
• Professional Memberships, covering one professional membership, certification, registration, or license cost per annum for active employees related to their role or development plan.
• Global connections with experts worldwide at the leading edge of the industry, shaping the standards of the profession.