Engineering Manager - Offshore

Our client is a world class Energy EPC company who's looking for well competent Engineering Manager - Offshoreto join their offshore Portfolio Management Team on permanent basis in KSA, Al Khobar

Role Responsibilities:

• To ensure implementation and maintenance procedures of the control of all documents required for definition and control of the interfaces in each of the projects.
• Develop, update, and ensure application of the Interface Management procedure and Project Interface standard matrix.
• Organize and attend project meetings.
• Provide key engineering advice, assessment, and recommendations to ensure delivery of a multi-contract project within time, to budget and quality following industry best practice and observing the maximum respect for Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure regulatory and legal compliance.
• Provide professional advice on engineering strategies / risk levels and commercial agreements to the project, to ensure that cost effective technical solutions are identified, fully evaluated and the risk profile is fully understood by the projects.
• Ensure that all assessment, advice, and recommendations are fully documented in accordance with all internal procedures and industry best practice, and that sufficient technical and commercial due diligence (whether internal or external) exists to support those business decisions.
• Provide leadership to the project members, potentially comprising employees working from UAE and also from other regions
• Deliver consistent, high-quality, cost-effective engineering advice to the projects.
• Ensure that health and safety and environmental requirements are fully considered and adhered to in design to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practice.
• Maintain full awareness of the latest technical and commercial developments and identify suitable new technologies that has the potential to reduce cost and risk or improve safety.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices, and quality requirements to ensure that projects are delivered according to specification, budget and programme without compromising safety.
• Ensure that appropriate lessons learnt regarding offshore development are captured and shared across the different Offshore Project work packages, seeking as well to address lessons learnt from previous projects. Collaborate with the Lead/Principal Engineer to ensure that the engineering team implements them to enhance business value.
• Implement offshore standards, procedures, tools, best practices, and quality requirements to ensure that projects are delivered according to specification, budget and programme without compromising safety.
• Ensure that appropriate lessons learnt regarding offshore development are captured and shared across the different Offshore Project work packages, seeking as well to address lessons learnt from previous projects. Collaborate with the Lead/Principal Engineer to ensure that the engineering team implements them to enhance business value.

Skills And Experience

• Good knowledge and experience of offshore platforms, compressors, machineries and structures
• Multidisciplinary engineering experience in multidisciplinary work packages in international environments.
• Substantial experience designing and working in the offshore industry, Aramco experience preferred
• Substantial experience in dealing with health and safety and environmental legislation associated and offshore projects.
• High degree of competency in future planning.
• Proven experience in delivery of large packages.
• Sound relationship management skills and confidence working with Senior Management.
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and develop key engineering decisions.
• Excellent report writing, presentation skills and ability to summarize key parameters and drivers impacting the package.
• Sound planning and analysis skills with the ability to look forward and see / anticipate problems and thereafter plan and implements mitigating solutions to negate the effect of such problems.
• Problem solving - dealing with conflicting requirements.
• Proven ability in giving accurate, concise, and timely advice to project teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Previous experience in a relevant field (offshore / oil and gas).
• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering procedures, standards and guidance.
• Experience of working in highly skilled teams.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Good initiative, Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Education And Experience

• A bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent from an accredited university
• Experience in execution of offshore mega projects, Brownfield and Greenfield from cradle to grave.