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Role Overview
Lead Engineer - Civil/Structural - Onshore position at KBR, located in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Company Overview
KBR is a team of teams delivering 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
Take technical ownership of civil and structural deliverables across FEED, detailed design, and EPC project phases for oil and gas projects across the UAE and wider GCC/Middle East region. Lead a discipline team and interface directly with clients, contractors, and multidisciplinary project teams. Ensure engineering deliverables are technically sound, coordinated, and delivered in accordance with project requirements, with strong understanding of UAE regulations, international engineering codes, and oil and gas industry practices.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Technical Oversight
- Lead and manage all Civil/Structural engineering activities for the project during FEED, EPC, and detailed engineering phases.
- Define analysis approach, review assumptions, verify results and approve Civil/Structural calculations, reports, specifications, drawings and technical deliverables.
- Prepare and manage discipline execution plans, structural design basis, philosophies, deliverable registers, checking/approval matrices and engineering work-hour estimates.
Coordination & Integration
- Coordinate metocean, geotechnical, weight-control, survey, inspection, fabrication, installation, constructability, operations and multidisciplinary inputs.
- Lead interdisciplinary, model, constructability and safety reviews with client, IVB, operations, fabrication, installation and third-party stakeholders.
- Work closely with project management, other engineering disciplines, clients, vendors, and construction teams.
Programme & Resource Management
- Manage discipline progress, schedule, budget, manpower forecast, estimate-to-complete, workshare execution, subcontracted engineering, quality requirements and change control.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 15 years of oil and gas structural engineering experience, including 5 years in a lead role.
- Proven experience across FEED, Detailed Engineering, EPC, PMC, construction support, and brownfield modification phases.
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering.
- Master's degree in Structural Engineering, or a related discipline will be considered an advantage.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong working knowledge of onshore oil and gas Civil and Structural design: foundations (including raft/pile design), drainage systems, steel and RC structures, pipe racks, and equipment support structures.
- Proficiency with relevant design software: STAAD Pro, SAP2000, SAFE, Mat3d, ETABS.
- Strong technical leadership, engineering assurance, risk identification, quality control, communication and multidisciplinary coordination skills.
Additional Information
- Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
- Engaging and collaborative work environment with a commitment to safety and sustainability.