Principal Hook Up Engineer

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead hook-up and commissioning activities for major EPCI projects and develop plans, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, codes, regulations, and company procedures during hook-up and commissioning.
• Conduct constructability reviews, maintain the constructability log, and arrange Engineering and Fabrication constructability meetings.
• Maintain project lessons learned and prepare or review procedures, manuals, reports, and project close-out reports.
• Coordinate Jack Up Barge and hook-up mobilization readiness; forecast resources and manpower during scheduling and execution.
• Review project-specific training requirements, ensure compliance, provide training, and share improvement feedback.
• Monitor cost, schedule, and quality metrics and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Coordinate and mentor the hook-up and commissioning team; collaborate with project management and Fabrication teams.
• Conduct feasibility studies and risk assessments, identify constraints, and propose solutions and mitigation strategies.
• Support bid inputs with historical project data and contribute to Engineering policies and Yard procedure improvements.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required; Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering is preferred.
• At least 12 years of EPCI hook-up and commissioning experience, with significant offshore and onshore project exposure.
• Strong knowledge of API, ISO, and ASME standards and applicable codes and regulations.
• Expertise in project management methodologies and software tools for planning, scheduling, and resource optimization.
• Demonstrated multidisciplinary team leadership, problem-solving, communication, organization, prioritization, and adaptability.

About the company