Principal Project Engineer

Role Overview

Principal Project Engineer at Wood PLC, based in Qatar. This is a long-term assignment supporting future growth in the expanding business.

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara, a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.

Role Purpose

Execute project work in accordance with the project execution plan, including Wood and project procedures on Safety and Quality Control, within man-hour, cost and project schedule targets. The role supports delivery across FEED, Pre-FEED, Brownfield and Greenfield scopes of work, with focus on both onshore and offshore Oil and Gas opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Safety, Health and Quality

• Champion both Wood and client Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality cultures.
• Lead by example in raising the shield and demonstrating courage to intervene.
• Ensure procedures are followed and high standards of safety and quality are achieved in all associated work.

Project Execution and Delivery

• Support delivery of project and engineering excellence in support of the Project and Engineering Managers on assigned project scopes.
• Take ownership of assigned project scope and activities, ensuring timely delivery to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers in accordance with applicable procedures, work practices, specifications and standards.
• May be appointed as the Proposal, Study or Project Manager with guidance from more senior management for small to medium sized scopes of work.
• Ensure the project is delivered in the correct sequence, highlighting and managing risk if works are completed out of sequence.

Scope and Deliverables Management

• Take responsibility for the coordination and development of key project and multi-discipline deliverables such as the Project Execution Plan, Project Plans and Procedures, Basis of Design, Subcontract Scopes of Work, Design Reviews, Study Reports, Project Trackers and Lists and project plans.
• May be required to take responsibility for other key multi-discipline deliverables such as the equipment list and weight control schedule.
• Ensure the quality of project and engineering deliverables before issue to customer, taking responsibility for the approval of key deliverables as required.
• Ensure that the Engineering disciplines comply strictly with the contract and scope of work in completing project activities.
• Manage and coordinate multidiscipline engineering scope, inputs and deliverables across multiple geographic locations including specialist and high-volume engineering centres.

Engineering Coordination

• Coordinate activities, collaborating with the Lead Engineers, engineering disciplines and supporting departments to ensure tender and project scopes are correctly interpreted and deadlines met.
• Coordinate the development of method statements, deliverable lists, manhours, CTRs and risk in support of both tender and project scopes.
• Manages interfaces with third parties to ensure availability of input for completion of engineering deliverables in accordance with the project schedule.

Schedule and Cost Management

• Take responsibility for schedule, manhours, key milestones and coordination of medium sized engineering projects in accordance with the established policies, procedures, systems and requirements approved by Wood and the customer.
• Expected to be fully conversant with the scope of work assigned, managing project action registers and risk and familiar with technical and project issues.

Review and Audit Activities

• Take a leading role in project reviews, design reviews and audits to ensure that they are completed as per Wood and customer expectations.
• Chair and minutes technical and project review meetings with customers, vendors, subcontractors and other third parties, managing technical and project issues through to completion.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• When delegated, act as the day-to-day contact and communication with the client to maintain client satisfaction.
• Hold and minute weekly progress meetings with discipline engineers, ensuring that ownership is assigned and actions are driven to closure in a timely manner.

Brownfield and Site Activities

• Lead site surveys and data gathering activities for brownfield scope of work, taking responsibility for development of the site survey report.

Risk Management

• Support the project and engineering managers in flagging project and technical risks, taking responsibility for related actions and close out of such.

Qualifications & Experience

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Enrolled on the Register of Engineers in the State of Qatar as a Grade A or B Engineer (desirable).
• Further education and certification in the field of Project Management, PMP or APM (ideally).
• Experience of working in a variety of projects and contract scopes, including greenfield and brownfield, on and offshore, Pre-FEED through to EPC, with a focus on offshore upstream.
• Experienced across multiple project phases such as Concept and Feasibility, Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Start-Up and Warranty.
• Site experience in the Construction and Commissioning phase (desirable and beneficial).
• Experienced with project design and technical reviews, such as HAZID, P&ID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, Plot Plan, 3D Model Stage Reviews, SAFOP, QRA.
• Experience developing and managing multi-discipline deliverables such as equipment lists and weight control (desirable).
• Experienced with the interpretation of complex scopes of work, contracts, schedules and engineering deliverables such as P&IDs and Plot Plans.
• Ideally has experience with Qatar O&G customer standards and local regulatory requirements, including Shell DEPs, Qatar Civil Defence requirements for DC1 and DC2, Qatar Construction Standards.
• Experience of project cost control and planning systems.
• Highly experienced with risk and change management across the full project lifecycle, ideally having exposure to both design and site works.

Skills & Competencies

• Good working experience of the Microsoft Office applications in the development of documents, presentations, trackers and schedules.
• Self-motivated, proactive and highly driven individual with high standards, attention to detail and capable of demonstrating initiative.
• High level of commercial aptitude and awareness, able to interpret and follow the Contract whilst raising potential delays, change and commercial matters to the Project and Engineering Managers in good time.
• Excellent communicator, being a leader in the success of multi-discipline team delivery.
• Motivates teams in a positive manner to ensure a proactive approach in the delivery of timely solutions.
• Highlights and quantifies change when it impacts the work.
• Excellent multidiscipline coordination skills with experience of resolving complex technical issues and conflict, whilst being able to prioritize and plan work logically.
• Demonstration of customer focus and ability to respond to customer needs whilst achieving project and corporate objectives.
• Builds collaborative teams and leads by example in the demonstration of Wood's core values.
• Has experience of guiding and mentoring other project and discipline engineers in the delivery of work scope.
• Display analytical and innovation skills to manage scopes of work.
• Proficient level of both written and spoken communication skills in the English language, able to interpret and disseminate complex scope and contract documents.
• Willing and able to represent Wood in both onshore and offshore surveys, holding relevant certification or willing to undertake suitable training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness.

Additional Information

Location and Availability

• Available for work in Doha, Qatar from September/October 2022.
• Be able to confidently deliver assigned scopes of work independently and remotely from management whilst leading others, with minimal guidance and direction.
• Have demonstrable experience of working independently and remotely from technical leadership personnel, although functional leadership will be within the Doha office.
• Have demonstrable experience of working within a small project office, supporting cross discipline activities beyond their core discipline.

Benefits

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across oil and gas and emerging energy sectors.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; Wood is actively committed to diversity and inclusion across the business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure rewards are at the right level in line with the market.
• Life Insurance: Provides payment of 2 x Base Salary (up to a maximum of QAR 1 million) upon death.
• End of Service Gratuity: In line with Qatar Labor Law, upon completion of 1 year's service employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit of three weeks for every year of service.
• Medical Insurance: Ensures cover (up to a maximum of QAR 250,000 per person, per year) is available should you require treatment. Pre-existing and chronic conditions are covered up to QAR 10,000.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Allows you to discuss any work or personal issues confidentially. The programme helps support mental, physical, social and financial well-being.
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