Senior Hvac Engineer

Job description / Role

Location

Doha, Qatar

Start date

01-Jan-2026

End date

31-Dec-2026

Work status

Residential, single

Qualifications & experience

• Degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering.
• 15 years plus experience in HVAC systems for the offshore oil and gas upstream facilities preferably in design offices, construction and/or in operating companies.
• Sound experience in brownfield projects and HVAC systems retrofit.
• Good sense of team spirit leadership, strong interpersonal and soft communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to changes in an environment of continuous improvements.
• Able to keep discipline and resolve conflict.
• Fluent in English - verbal and written.

Activities

• Ensure and promote the application of company HSE and safety engineering rules and specifications. Ensure that contractors comply at all times with safety rules, taking actions as required in case of disregards.
• Promote safety culture within company personnel and contractors as well as reporting of anomalies.
• Prepare / review the HVAC engineering documents, which includes but not limited to:
• Conversant with P&IDs, should be able to identify HVAC sub-systems.
• Interpreting SLDs, interconnection diagrams and control schematics.
• Conversant with HVAC flow diagram, should be able to reconcile air flow rates with HVAC cooling capacity calculation.
• Conversant with room internal over-pressure concept.
• Familiar with various HVAC systems, i.e. ACCU, SWCCU, water chillers, etc.
• Familiar with PLC based control concepts and interfaces.
• Familiar with HVAC interfaces to platform ESD and F&G systems.
• Conversant with functionality/design criteria of following HVAC sub-systems:
• AHU
• Air condenser / SW condenser
• Evaporator
• Compressor
• Fire dampers
• Shall have basic knowledge of instrumentation and electrical components used in HVAC as well as intrinsic safety.
• Manage E&I scope of work within the HVAC projects with minimum support from others.
• Familiar with international HVAC standards.
• Basic knowledge of piping and/or material metallurgy selection, especially for seawater system.
• In addition, for the condensing unit skid retrofit projects the candidate should have some experience in such retrofit where temporary / back-up system needs to be deployed to enable replacement of the skid (this will be part of the constructability study).
• Define, specify and carry out necessary technical studies in order to propose robust and optimized technical solutions.
• Prepare scope of work, cost estimates, budgets, and technical dossiers for CFTs packages for HVAC related activities.
• Plan and organize the supervision of the offshore site survey to ensure technical compliance of the contractors with the contract/frame agreement.
• Lead the technical review of the bidders' proposals and prepare technical recommendations accordingly.
• Review and comment vendors deliverables, interpret facilities engineering drawings, designs and make necessary recommendations.
• Follow-up purchase orders of HVAC equipment to ensure timely approval, conformity of design and participate in technical reviews and FAT with vendors.
• Plan and conduct KOM with contractors, JRA/work permits meetings in relation with brownfield projects.