Job Title: Construction Manager

Role Overview

KBR is recruiting a Construction Manager for the KBR Abu Dhabi PMC Team to support a major Offshore Project. The role will be initially based at either the Client's Office or the Contractor's Office in Abu Dhabi, UAE and if required, later move to the Offshore site.

Company Overview

KBR delivers future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives while also helping achieve their sustainability goals. KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle, including world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design and engineering capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

Role Purpose

The Construction Manager will be responsible for managing and overseeing construction and installation activities associated with the ADNOC Offshore project, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant execution. The role will represent the PMC in supervising EPC contractor performance across fabrication, offshore installation, mechanical completion, and commissioning activities.

Key Responsibilities

Construction Planning & Execution

• Lead and manage construction activities to ensure execution in accordance with ADNOC Offshore requirements and approved project procedures.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee offshore construction and installation activities.
• Manage construction activities associated with onshore fabrication, offshore transportation and installation, mechanical completion, and brownfield modifications.
• Review contractors' construction execution plans, procedures, work methodologies, and construction schedules.

Contractor Supervision & Performance

• Supervise and monitor EPC contractor performance during fabrication, construction, offshore installation, and commissioning phases.
• Experience supervising EPC contractors from fabrication through offshore installation and commissioning.
• Ensure contractors maintain appropriate construction documentation, records, progress reporting, and completion dossiers.

Schedule & Progress Management

• Monitor construction progress against the approved project schedule and identify potential constraints or delays.
• Review construction progress and highlight critical issues requiring corrective or recovery actions.
• Good understanding of project schedules, construction progress measurement, and contractor performance monitoring.

Coordination & Interfaces

• Coordinate construction activities with Engineering, Procurement, Project Controls, HSE, Quality, Commissioning, and other project disciplines.
• Coordinate resolution of construction-related technical issues with engineering and EPC contractor teams.
• Ensure effective coordination between fabrication yards, offshore construction teams, EPC contractors, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders.
• Manage and coordinate brownfield modification activities and interfaces with existing facilities.
• Support resolution of construction interfaces between different contractors and work packages.

Installation & Mechanical Completion

• Monitor offshore installation activities and ensure alignment between fabrication completion, transportation, installation, and mechanical completion.
• Ensure construction activities are appropriately coordinated with commissioning and handover requirements.
• Support mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and final project handover activities.

Compliance & Standards

• Ensure construction execution complies with applicable project HSE, quality, and technical requirements.
• Strong knowledge of HSE and quality requirements applicable to offshore Oil & Gas construction.

Meetings & Reporting

• Participate in construction progress meetings, coordination meetings, constructability reviews, and project reviews.
• Provide construction status, risks, constraints, and key issues to Project Management.
• Promote effective coordination of construction activities to achieve project objectives safely and efficiently.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably Mechanical, Civil, Structural, or a related engineering discipline.
• Extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry with strong construction management experience.
• Significant experience working on offshore EPC projects.
• Proven experience in managing construction and installation activities within a PMC / Client / EPC environment.
• Strong exposure to offshore transportation and installation, fabrication, mechanical completion, and brownfield modifications is highly desirable for this type of ADNOC Offshore construction role.
• Previous ADNOC / ADNOC Offshore project experience would be highly advantageous.
• Experience working with fabrication yards and offshore construction teams.
• Good understanding of multidisciplinary offshore construction involving structural, piping, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and associated facilities.
• Strong understanding of EPC project execution and construction interfaces.

Skills & Competencies

• Offshore Construction Management
• Offshore Installation
• EPC Contractor Management
• Fabrication Yard Management
• Brownfield Modifications
• Mechanical Completion
• Construction Planning & Execution
• Multidisciplinary Construction Coordination
• Constructability Reviews
• Construction Interface Management
• HSE Leadership
• Quality Management
• Progress & Schedule Monitoring
• Pre-commissioning & Commissioning Support
• Stakeholder Management
• Leadership & Team Management
• Strong leadership, communication, coordination, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Additional Information

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (initial placement at Client's Office or Contractor's Office; potential relocation to Offshore site if required).