Engineering Lead (Process)
Location: Qatar Onshore - DohaContract Type: 36 months contract role
Job Purpose
The Process Engineering Lead is responsible for providing expert technical guidance on the design of Offshore Topside facilities. The role ensures the design of process facilities and equipment, and compliance with international standards to enhance asset reliability and safety. You will lead process engineering activities for major offshore projects, ensuring technical requirements fully comply with project deliverables and standardized processes, and support the Offshore Engineering Manager to deliver all aspects to the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that the contractor's process engineering for Topsides and Onshore Facilities (Offshore scope) engineering designs comply with contract requirements, including project codes and standards.
- Review and approve contractor engineering deliverables for offshore process facilities and equipment, including test separators, pig traps, and chemical storage tanks. Review and comment on other engineering discipline deliverables.
- Plan and schedule engineering deliverables to enable efficient project execution, ensuring technical alignment and compliance with operational policies, standards of business conduct, and project management systems.
- Participate in key design workshops and ensure that recommendations are correctly implemented and actions closed (e.g., 3D model review, lessons learned, value engineering, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, engineering criticality assessment).
- Support the Offshore Engineering Manager in monitoring the contractor's progress on delivery of required process engineering deliverables for Topsides, Pipeline, and project scope.
- Coordinate with subject matter experts from respective disciplines involved in the delivery of process systems and equipment, and ensure endorsement of technical deviations to specifications when required.
- Supervise and manage the engineering interface for process systems and equipment for Topsides and Onshore Facilities (Offshore scope).
- Review contractor engineering site queries and red line mark-ups of engineering deliverables to support as-built activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering roles, including at least 4 years in the oil & gas industry, and at least 1 year in a supervisory or oversight role of contractors/sub-contractors/service/vendor personnel.
- Broad knowledge of engineering execution including design standards, specifications, codes, safety criteria, offshore facilities design, construction, and operations.
- Experience managing contractors and third-party vendors across several project phases, preferably having completed a project from FEED to start-up.
- Experience with risk assessment approaches in decision making.
- Experience in technology adoption and implementation of continuous improvement.
- Experience working in large-scale integrated operating organizations in operations, projects, or subsurface roles.
- Subject matter expert level competency in at least one engineering discipline.
- Experience with sour service gas and LNG facilities (for onshore) and large offshore platforms/pipelines (for offshore).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on teamwork and the ability to interact within a project management team.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary, multicultural teams in offshore environments.
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- High proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Computer literacy involving regular use of professional office applications and some technical applications.
- Good knowledge of mechanical equipment, piping, pipeline, structural, instrument, telecom, and electrical systems.