About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Engineer with a proven track record in leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring the successful execution of projects and alignment with company goals for a high-profile client.
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Our Clients and Projects
The company's Oil, Gas & New Energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe. We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status-quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids and decarbonization and electrification markets. Energy security, transition, and supply have never been more important. You will be at the very forefront of transformative projects that provide sustainable power to generations to come.
What We Can Offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects: Delivered to high-profile clients across the Energy Sector
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
- Competitive remuneration package: Regular reviews to ensure alignment with market levels
- Medical Insurance: Access to inpatient and outpatient medical care
- Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: Life Assurance cover provided
- End of Service Gratuity: Eligibility in line with UAE Labor Law
- Employee Share Plan: Opportunity to purchase shares with a company match
- Long Service Award: Recognition for employee loyalty and commitment at 5-year milestones
- Commitment to continued professional development: Tailored development plans to meet individual needs
- Global connections: Join a network of experts shaping the standards of the profession
- Energy Transition Academy: Community of experts sharing knowledge and gaining exposure to various energy systems
Key Objectives for this Role
The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and controlling the engineering and technical activities associated with the successful delivery of a multi-billion-dollar EPCM project. The role ensures effective integration of engineering, procurement, construction, quality, HSE, project controls, and commissioning activities to achieve project objectives in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, technical specifications, and contractual requirements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate day-to-day engineering and technical activities across multiple disciplines to ensure alignment with project requirements, approved design criteria, engineering specifications, contractual obligations, and standards.
- Support the Lead Project Engineer in implementing the engineering execution plan, managing deliverables, monitoring engineering progress, and ensuring alignment with the overall project schedule.
- Coordinate with discipline engineers, engineering leads, procurement, construction, planning, project controls, quality, HSE, and commissioning teams to facilitate timely completion of project activities.
- Monitor engineering deliverables against approved schedules, identify outstanding documents and technical dependencies, and follow up with responsible discipline teams for timely submission and review.
- Maintain engineering registers, technical query logs, interface registers, action trackers, and other project records for accurate visibility of engineering status and outstanding issues.
- Undertake frequent site visits to coordinate with construction personnel, inspect field conditions, review construction progress, and facilitate timely resolution of technical issues.
- Act as a key liaison between site-based construction teams and office-based engineering disciplines, ensuring effective communication of field observations and design discrepancies.
- Review engineering drawings, specifications, calculations, and technical documents for completeness and consistency, escalating technical issues to the relevant discipline leads.
- Ensure engineering deliverables are developed in accordance with approved project specifications, applicable codes, standards, and quality procedures.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary design reviews and technical coordination meetings to identify design conflicts and installation constraints.
- Support the coordination of engineering inputs required for procurement activities, ensuring timely resolution of outstanding matters.
- Identify engineering-related constraints affecting construction work fronts and coordinate corrective actions with responsible teams.
- Monitor engineering progress and report deviations from planned targets, providing updates on risks and required decisions.
- Assist in managing engineering changes and coordinating technical assessments.
- Support the maintenance of project risk registers by identifying technical risks and tracking mitigation measures.
- Coordinate brownfield engineering activities and ensure engineering solutions comply with operational constraints and safety requirements.
- Maintain communication and collaboration among engineering disciplines and project stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for design optimization, value engineering, and improved engineering coordination.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- Minimum 12 to 15 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry.
- Proven experience in relevant projects.
- Thorough knowledge and practical application of standards.
- Strong background in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects.
- Extensive site construction experience in operating Oil & Gas facilities.
- Experience in Gas Processing Plants and shutdown/turnaround execution.
- Hands-on experience in brownfield modification projects within live operating facilities.
- Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary activities involving engineering, construction, and commissioning teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on objective criteria without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.
