Lead Engineer - Package

Aibel is a leading service company within the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. We provide our customers with optimal and innovative solutions within engineering, construction, modifications and maintenance throughout a project’s entire life cycle. Aibel's 4000 skilled employees are located close to our customers at the company’s offices in Norway and South East Asia. In addition, we operate two modern yards in Haugesund and in Thailand, with complete prefabrication and construction capabilities.

Job responsibilities:

• Execute and co-ordinate all activities under the job holder’s responsibility
• Perform functions of a Discipline Lead Engineer, including:
  • Defining project scope, schedule and resources
  • Establish discipline deliverables, interface definition and coordination
  • Define and perform monitoring, control and reporting of progress
  • Attend meetings and provide technical support
  • Lead personnel assigned to support the job holder (5 to 10 persons or more)
• Preparation of technical documentation (data sheets, requisitions, bid evaluation, technical reports, equipment criticality rating, etc.) towards procurement of mechanical equipment and packages from suppliers and vendors
• Review of supplier engineering documentation while interfacing with other disciplines/departments to assure engineering integration of equipment/packages overseen by Job Holder in a timely manner
• Minimize waivers, or mitigate impact from waivers on schedule and cost
• Conduct surveillance of vendor activities e.g., kick-off meetings, progress monitoring and expediting, equipment testing.
• Mechanical Completion: take part in site supervision of construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover activities
• Preparation, modification and review of documents and/or drawings as per discipline deliverable list
• Participate in studies and reviews where required as discipline lead or as mechanical package engineer e.g., HAZOP, Model Reviews.
• Encourage to and seek improvements to the project costs and schedule at all times
• Support the project organization in meeting project objectives (quality / costs / schedule / safety) along with other team members
• Travel overseas on short notice / perform overtime work as needed

Work experience requirements:

• >15 years experience in Skid Packages in the oil, gas, or petrochemical (OGP) industry, preferably with bulk of that experience in the Offshore OGP sector.
• Has experience with typical offshore mechanical/multi-disciplinary packages in the following categories (with nominal examples):
• Stand Alone - pumps, scrubbers, separators, heat exchangers, etc.
• Standard Utility Packages – air compressors, R.O. water makers, etc.
• Custom Process Packages - flare tips, chemical injection, etc.
• Moderately Complex packages – TEG package, pedestal crane, etc.

The Job Holder’s experience shall enable him to handle packages in Category D. Job Holder shall have good all-round understanding of all equipment types, system/process engineering and area/layout engineering.

• Understands technical requirements of other disciplines/departments, and able to challenge or modify other discipline technical expectations.
• Experience in one or more of the following would be an advantage:
  • Package engineering for modules
  • System and area design knowledge of multi-disciplinary packages
  • Relevant experience with a company that supplies skid package equipment
  • Experience working with broad range of regulatory standards e.g., NCS, UKCS, Australian, Brazilian.
• Highly conversant with oil & gas industry standards such as API, ISO, NORSOK, etc.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Other skills:

• Good oral and written communication skills in English
• Effective organizational skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills; demonstrate effective application of existing ideas/concepts, mental models, systems, and processes, and ability to integrate them to create new ones.
• Strong leadership skills, good communicator, dependable and resourceful
• High competency levels for collaborative work, in a manner that magnifies the efforts of others, in a multi-cultural environment

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Other information:
Work location: Singapore
Application deadline: 2 May 2025