Principal Consultant - Development Engineering/Investment screening

Role Overview

Principal Consultant - Development Engineering/Investment Screening at Technip Energies. This is a secondment role based in Abu Dhabi, supporting a client's International Gas and LNG Business Development and Asset Management teams.

Role Purpose

To provide end-to-end leadership across business development, investment maturation, and non-operated asset stewardship for a portfolio of gas and LNG investments. The role ensures that new opportunities are technically credible, commercially robust, and executable, and that existing non-operated assets are governed to protect and enhance long-term shareholder value, HSE performance, and ESG outcomes. The Principal Consultant reports into the Business Development Function while serving as a shared resource supporting both Business Development and Asset Management organizations.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development & Opportunity Shaping

• Lead or support technical evaluation of new investment opportunities, including corporate acquisitions, farm-ins, and infrastructure access.
• Assess development concepts, execution strategies, cost estimates, schedules, and risk profiles proposed by counterparties or operators.
• Provide credible challenges to ensure opportunities are investable, scalable, and resilient across commodity cycles.
• Support decision and internal investment committees through clear articulation of value drivers, risks, and mitigations.

Non-Operated Asset Management & Governance

• Act as the investor's senior representative across non-operated joint ventures and partnerships.
• Review and influence operator work programmes, budgets, production forecasts, and capital projects.
• Ensure appropriate governance, assurance, and escalation of material technical, HSE, cost, or schedule risks.
• Maintain alignment between operator activity and shareholder value objectives.

Technical & Value Assurance

• Apply deep engineering and operational judgement across facilities, integrity, operations, and major projects.
• Challenge design basis, concept selection, and execution plans to avoid value erosion and over-engineering.
• Ensure disciplined decision making at key investment and project stage gates including screening, FID, and re-sanction.
• Identify and assess key technical risks across the asset lifecycle and define appropriate mitigation strategies to ensure investment robustness, protect value, and support investment decision-making.
• Identify opportunities for value uplift, cost reduction, emissions reduction, or asset life extension.

HSE, ESG & Risk Oversight

• Ensure operator performance aligns with investor HSE and ESG expectations.
• Monitor material operational, integrity, and project risks across the portfolio.
• Promote consistent standards and learning across assets and regions.

Stakeholder & Partner Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with operators, co-investors, regulators, and host authorities.
• Represent the investor credibly in JV committees, technical reviews, and strategic forums.
• Navigate complex partner dynamics with authority, pragmatism, and diplomacy.

Qualifications & Experience

• Strong developments, facilities, process, operations, and asset integrity foundation with extensive senior experience across upstream and/or midstream oil and gas, including operations and projects.
• Demonstrated experience in managing new deals and acquired assets with strong business mindset and understanding of value creation from an international oil and gas company perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a high-impact contributor, taking ownership of complex and high-stakes deliverables with accountability and a hands-on approach.
• Strong capability in constructively challenging operators and partners without undermining relationships.
• Experience in complex, multicultural, and multipartner joint venture environments.
• Desirable: Experience spanning operator, investor, consultancy, and contractor environments.
• Desirable: Strong commercial acumen.
• Desirable: Proven exposure to energy transition and decarbonisation initiatives.

Skills & Competencies

• Combines strategic commercial thinking with deep technical credibility.
• Comfortable operating from early opportunity framing through long-term asset stewardship.
• Calm, authoritative, and values-led with a strong HSE mindset.
• Trusted advisor at management, investment committee, and JV level.

Additional Information

• This is a secondment role based in Abu Dhabi.