Job Title: Interface Manager

Role Overview

Interface Manager at KBR, based at either the Client's Office or the Contractor's Office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, supporting a major Offshore Project with the KBR Abu Dhabi PMC Team.

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 achieving 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 Interface Manager is responsible for identifying, coordinating, managing, and resolving all internal and external interfaces across the project. The role acts as a key focal point between the Client, PMC, EPC contractors, subcontractors, vendors, licensors, operations teams, and other stakeholders, helping prevent scope gaps, interface conflicts, and schedule impacts.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Documentation

• Develop, implement, and maintain the Project Interface Management Plan (IMP).
• Establish and maintain the Interface Register, identifying interface points, responsibilities, status, and required actions.
• Maintain interface documentation, correspondence, action logs, registers, and status reports.

Interface Coordination & Management

• Identify, manage, monitor, and close internal and external interfaces throughout the project lifecycle.
• Act as the focal point for interface matters involving ADNOC Offshore, PMC, EPC contractors, subcontractors, vendors, licensors, operations/asset teams, and relevant external stakeholders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering interfaces covering Process, Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, Instrumentation, Telecom, Civil and Structural disciplines.
• Ensure that interface requirements, responsibilities, deliverables, and boundaries are clearly defined and communicated.
• Coordinate interfaces during engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and start-up phases.
• Coordinate brownfield/offshore tie-in and SIMOPS-related interfaces where applicable.

Engineering & Technical Review

• Review and monitor drawings, specifications, engineering deliverables, and data exchanges that affect project interfaces.
• Support management of technical queries, design clarifications, constructability issues, site clashes, and contractor interface conflicts.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and other technical documentation.

Meetings & Issue Resolution

• Facilitate interface coordination meetings and workshops and ensure timely closure of actions and escalation of critical issues.
• Manage multiple complex interfaces and drive issues through to resolution.

Procurement & Vendor Coordination

• Coordinate procurement and vendor interfaces to ensure technical information and deliverables are exchanged in accordance with project requirements.

Schedule & Risk Management

• Integrate interface requirements and milestones with the overall project schedule and highlight potential bottlenecks or delays.
• Identify interface-related project risks and facilitate development and implementation of appropriate mitigation measures.

Change Management

• Assess the interface impact of engineering/design and scope changes and maintain traceability of changes and approvals.

Reporting & Compliance

• Monitor interface performance and report critical issues, delays, risks, and outstanding actions to project management.
• Ensure interface activities comply with applicable project HSE and QA/QC requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from a recognized university.
• Significant experience in Oil & Gas EPC/PMC projects, preferably involving offshore facilities.
• Strong experience in interface management and multidisciplinary engineering coordination.
• Good understanding of the EPC lifecycle covering FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning.
• Experience coordinating multiple EPC contractors, vendors and third-party stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and other technical documentation.
• Familiarity with interface management systems, registers and project controls.
• Previous experience working on ADNOC/ADNOC Offshore projects would be highly advantageous.
• Experience with offshore brownfield modifications, tie-ins and SIMOPS would be advantageous.

Skills & Competencies

• Stakeholder management and communication.
• Negotiation and problem-solving.
• Leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex interfaces and drive issues through to resolution.