Senior Project Engineer

Role overview

Project delivery and coordination

• Execute project work under the project execution plan and applicable procedures, maintaining safety and quality within man-hour, cost, and schedule targets.
• Support project and engineering managers in delivering assigned project and engineering scopes.
• Own assigned scopes and activities and deliver to customer satisfaction under applicable procedures, work practices, specifications, and standards.
• Coordinate lead engineers, disciplines, and support departments to interpret tender and project scopes and meet deadlines.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering inputs and deliverables across locations and engineering centres.
• Ensure compliance with contracts and scopes of work and check deliverable quality before customer issue.

Plans, controls, and reviews

• Coordinate project execution plans, procedures, basis of design, subcontract scopes, design reviews, study reports, trackers, and schedules.
• Develop method statements, deliverable lists, man-hours, CTRs, and risk information for tenders and projects.
• Manage schedules, man-hours, milestones, sequencing, action registers, and risks for medium-sized engineering projects.
• Chair and document technical and project review meetings with customers, vendors, subcontractors, and other third parties; drive issues to completion.
• Lead project reviews, design reviews, and audits; hold progress meetings and ensure actions are assigned and closed.

Interfaces, surveys, and risk

• Act as day-to-day client contact when delegated and manage third-party interfaces needed to complete engineering deliverables on schedule.
• Lead brownfield site surveys and data gathering and take responsibility for site survey reports.
• Support project and engineering managers in identifying project and technical risks and closing related actions.
• Represent Wood in onshore and offshore surveys; relevant certification or willingness to undertake suitable training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness is required.

Qualifications and experience

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Qatar State Register of Engineers Grade A or B enrollment is desirable.
• Further project management education or certification, such as PMP or APM, is ideal.
• Good working experience with Microsoft Office for documents, presentations, trackers, and schedules.
• Experience across greenfield and brownfield, onshore and offshore, Pre-FEED through EPC, with a focus on offshore upstream.
• Experience across concept/feasibility, Pre-FEED, FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and warranty project phases.
• Construction and commissioning site experience is desirable.
• Experience with design and technical reviews such as HAZID, P&ID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, Plot Plan, 3D Model Stage Reviews, SAFOP, and QRA.
• Experience interpreting complex scopes, contracts, schedules, P&IDs, and Plot Plans; Qatar oil and gas standards and local requirements are ideal.
• Strong commercial awareness, risk and change management, multidisciplinary coordination, technical problem solving, planning, and project cost control experience.

Candidate expectations

• Work in Doha, Qatar, with the posting specifying availability from September/October 2022.
• Deliver scopes independently with minimal guidance while coordinating disciplines and supporting functions; experience working in a small project office is required.
• Proficient written and spoken English, including the ability to interpret and communicate complex scope and contract documents.
• Demonstrate customer focus, initiative, attention to detail, collaborative leadership, and ability to guide and mentor project and discipline engineers.

Benefits and company offer

• Wood offers projects across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors, diversity and inclusion commitments, and regular salary reviews.
• Benefits listed include life insurance, end-of-service gratuity, medical insurance, an employee assistance programme, and reimbursement for one relevant professional membership.
• The company describes global connections across its energy and materials work.