Senior Project Engineer (Offshore)

Job description / Role

Overview

Wood is actively seeking expressions of interest for the Senior Project Engineer (Offshore) 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 Wood and/or project procedures on safety and quality control within the man-hour, cost, and project schedule targets.

This is a long-term assignment based in Qatar.

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Engineer (Offshore) will be responsible for:

• Supporting delivery of engineering excellence in their assigned project(s) through executing and delivering the engineering for an assigned project scope to schedule and in accordance with applicable procedures, specifications, and standards.
• Coordinating a series of activities performed by engineers, designers, and others from multiple engineering disciplines or departments, checking and issuing engineering deliverables.
• Schedule oversight, planning, and resource forecasting for engineering activities relating to the project.
• Ensuring accurate and timely delivery of work, to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers.
• Alerting the Project Manager in the event of potential delays or changes; supporting implementation of approved changes.
• Coordinating and assuring technical excellence of interdisciplinary project deliverables.
• Coordinating, guiding, and mentoring other Project Engineers in the management of work scope.
• Managing interfaces between engineering disciplines to ensure the successful delivery of assigned work.
• Contributing to the Project Execution Plan, Discipline Design Instruction, and Contract requisitions; preparing project plans and multi-discipline documents such as basis of design and subcontract scopes of work.
• Able to manage and coordinate engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centers including workshare/high-value engineering centers and understands and works to quality systems; monitors and acts on deficiencies.
• Checking Health, Safety, Environment, and Security (HSES) issues are identified and addressed in design, manufacture, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Developing Project Specific Procedures.
• Ensuring that the engineering disciplines comply strictly with the contract and scope of work in completing project activities.
• Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer.
• Chairs technical meetings with third parties and manages particular technical issues through to completion.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion; we are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Life insurance; provides payment of 2x base salary (up to a maximum of QAR 1 million) upon death.
• End of service gratuity; in line with Qatar Labor Law, upon completion of 1 year's service employees are eligible for an end of service benefit of three weeks for every year of service.
• Medical insurance; ensures cover (up to a maximum of QAR 250,000 per person, per year) is available should you require treatment. Pre-existing and/or chronic conditions are covered up to QAR 10,000.
• Employee assistance programme; allows you to feel comfortable knowing that you or your immediate family members can confidentially discuss any work or personal issues that are an inevitable part of life. The programme helps support your mental, physical, social, and financial well-being.
• Professional memberships; one professional membership, registration, subscription, certification, and/or license cost per annum for all active Wood employees. The membership must be relevant to the role you are currently employed in or be part of a development plan. Reimbursement should be claimed via the expenses procedure system, with supporting evidence.
• Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge, or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Experience:

• ISCED Level 6 Bachelor's (minimum) degree or Level 7 Master's (preferred) in an engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer or engineering chartership preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent qualification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Incumbents typically require 15 years relevant industry project execution experience, preferably with construction site experience.
• Fully understands technical work scopes including commercial aspects and has working knowledge of specifications and standards.
• Completely familiar with project contractual and commercial requirements and able to communicate these to less experienced project engineers.
• Fully conversant with project scopes and work carried out by all engineering disciplines and various interface and inter-discipline coordination requirements among the various disciplines including procurement and construction, and able to communicate those to less experienced project engineers.
• Understands the concept of customer satisfaction and is able to deliver to internal customers, including other engineering disciplines.
• Understands and knows how to apply the procedures and work practices which define and govern engineering management and project engineering deliverables.
• Understands the importance of project engineering deliverables documents and the need for accuracy and timely issue.
• Commercially astute and able to implement change control.
• Has a good knowledge of standards, procedures, and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; good skills in project and technical execution.
• Able to lead project engineering team; able to manage between engineering discipline groups.
• Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude.
• Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with third parties.

About the Company

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.