Civil & Structural Engineering Lead
Location: Onshore QatarContract Type: Contract
Job Purpose
Responsible for overseeing the civil and structural engineering discipline and the FEED/EPC Contractor in the delivery of all aspects of civil and structural design to ensure technical objectives are met within the approved scope, budget, and schedule. Ensures technical requirements such as project specifications, data sheets, and procedures developed during EPC fully comply with project requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Demonstrate personal SHES leadership and maintain the highest safety standards of behavior and actions to the workforce.
- Ensure civil and structural engineering activities comply with local regulatory requirements, codes and standards, project specifications, and industry practices.
- Coordinate and resolve civil structural discipline issues to ensure engineering designs meet project expectations and objectives.
- Ensure approved design recommendations and programs are utilized to improve design integrity, reduce inefficiencies, and maintain high safety and risk standards.
- Steward contractors' civil structural design and execution activities, verify adequacy of contractor resources and personnel competency, and ensure use of appropriate tools and approved technical software.
- Provide civil and structural engineering input to other engineering disciplines, construction, procurement, and quality as necessary. Support FEED, commissioning, and system completion activities, and make recommendations on civil structural discipline matters.
- Carry out technical evaluations, including risk-based evaluation of complex engineering issues, and resolve matters with significant project execution and/or commercial impact.
- Lead civil and structural interface coordination with other project areas and third parties as required during FEED/EPC.
- Maintain full project chronology of civil and structural engineering design revisions for use in contract administration.
- Monitor discipline schedule and progress while maintaining design integrity and quality requirements through management of change and specification deviation processes.
- Ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with safety, health, environment, and quality policies, regulations, and standards.
- Contribute to the development of local national employees.
- Ensure all activities comply with anti-trust and competition laws and company firewall policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
- Minimum 8 years' experience in engineering roles, including 4 years in the oil and gas industry, and at least 1 year in a supervisory or oversight role of contractor/sub-contractor/service/vendor personnel.
- Experience with oil and gas companies, EPC contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, or service companies in the oil and gas industry.
- Experience with sour service gas and LNG facilities (for onshore) and large offshore platforms/pipelines (for offshore).
- Experience in berth design and seabed dredging is an advantage.
- Brownfield engineering and execution knowledge.
- Experience in large tank foundations design.
- Knowledge in geotechnical, foundation design, drainage design, precast concrete, steel structures, building design, and dynamic equipment foundation design.
- Blast design experience is an advantage.
- Fluent in written and oral English.
- Strong leadership skills, personal integrity, and experience guiding and assisting contractor teams.
- Strong analytical, organisational, coordination, and planning skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact at all levels.
- Good mediation skills including conflict resolution, problem-solving, creative thinking, influencing, and empathy.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of software programs.
- Deep knowledge of industry codes, standards, and practices for civil discipline.