Senior Project Engineer – VAP & Performance

Role Overview

Senior Project Engineer – VAP & Performance at KBR, based at the Client Office (HQ) in Abu Dhabi. This is a PMC role for an Offshore Client.

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 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 Senior Project Engineer – VAP & Performance manages invoicing and financial tracking, staffing plans and resource deployment, reporting and dashboards, project staffing analytics, and governance coordination for offshore projects. The role ensures compliance with procedures, optimizes resource allocation, and delivers visibility to leadership through integrated performance reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Invoicing & Financial Tracking

• Track and follow up on end-to-end invoice status with PMC consultant and internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance with invoicing procedures.
• Maintain and reconcile invoice registers, highlighting delays, mismatches, or overdue payments.
• Coordinate with Projects Control Team, Contracts, and Project Managers to clear invoice bottlenecks.
• Report delays and red flags to Manager VAP & Estimation on a weekly basis.

Staffing Plan & Resource Management

• Develop and maintain the staffing plan, ensuring alignment with approved manpower plans.
• Monitor resource deployment, availability, mobilization, and demobilization across AOF projects following the approved resource management procedures.
• Identify resource shortages and excess, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with PMC and internal teams for compliance with diversity, competency, and resource allocation requirements.

Reporting & Dashboards

• Lead the creation and automation of dashboards and performance reports using Excel, Power BI, and agentic AI tools.
• Integrate project, staffing data, invoice metrics, and resource deployment into unified dashboards for leadership visibility.
• Improve data quality and ensure structured reporting on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

Project Staffing Analytics

• Analyze performance trends and forecast manpower needs.
• Support cost and performance optimization.
• Provide early warning alerts for resource constraints, invoice processing delays, and performance deviations.

Coordination & Governance

• Liaise with IPMT teams, internal stakeholders, and contractors to ensure alignment with company objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering is required.
• Overall 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Minimum 5–8 years' experience in offshore projects with engineering experience on mega projects.
• Previous experience with ADNOC projects is an added advantage.