PMC Brownfield Hook-Up Lead (Offshore)

Wood; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

End of Service Gratuity

Employee Share Plan

Long Service Award

Diversity & Inclusion

Professional Development

Job summary

Wood is seeking an experienced Hook-Up and Brownfield Manager to lead and coordinate brownfield modifications, tie-ins and commissioning on major offshore/onshore projects in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive live-plant experience, and a proven ability to deliver safely, on time and within budget, with close collaboration across client, PMC/EPC, operations and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, or Civil.
• Minimum 20 years of experience in oil and gas projects, with at least 8 years in hook-up, brownfield, construction, commissioning, or site management roles.
• Proven experience coordinating brownfield modifications, shutdowns, tie-ins, and hook-up activities within a PMC, EPC, or operator environment.
• Extensive experience working on live operating facilities, offshore platforms, terminals, refineries, petrochemical plants, or other complex industrial assets.
• Strong knowledge of brownfield execution methodologies, constructability, work-pack development, system completion, and commissioning interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary contractors and managing interfaces between construction, operations, maintenance, engineering, and commissioning teams.
• Strong understanding of permit-to-work systems, SIMOPS, isolation management, LOTO, confined-space entry, hot work, and other brownfield safety controls.
• Knowledge of international codes, standards, client specifications, and HSE requirements applicable to oil and gas construction and modification projects.
• Experience with shutdown and turnaround planning, tie-in execution, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and facility handover.
• Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead hook-up, brownfield modification, tie-in, and pre-commissioning activities in line with the project scope, schedule, budget, and execution strategy.
• Act as the primary PMC focal point for hook-up and brownfield activities among the client, EPC contractor, operations, engineering, commissioning, and site management.
• Ensure full compliance with HSE standards, SIMOPS, isolation management, and worksite control.
• Supervise contractor performance ensuring work aligns with drawings, specifications, method statements, risk assessments, and quality requirements.
• Coordinate brownfield surveys, site verification, constructability reviews, temporary works, demolition, modifications, equipment installation, piping tie-ins, electrical and instrumentation works, and system reinstatement.
• Develop and maintain detailed hook-up and brownfield execution plans, work packs, schedules, resource plans, and interface registers.
• Review and approve method statements, job safety analyses, lifting plans, isolation plans, tie-in packages, work permits, and construction procedures.
• Coordinate shutdown, turnaround, and tie-in activities within approved windows.
• Manage interfaces between new facilities and existing assets including operations, maintenance, engineering, construction, commissioning, and start-up teams.
• Ensure permit-to-work, lockout/tagout, gas testing, energy isolation, and SIMOPS controls are properly implemented.
• Monitor progress, productivity, manpower, materials, equipment, and work-front availability; identify constraints and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with engineering and procurement to resolve technical queries, shortages, design changes, and field modifications.
• Ensure punch lists, system completion, testing, reinstatement, handover dossiers, as-built documentation, and close-out activities are properly managed.
• Identify project risks and mitigation measures; escalate critical issues to senior management and client.
• Provide regular progress reports, forecasts, performance updates, and recovery plans to leadership and stakeholders.
• Promote safety, quality, and operational discipline across all contractors and project teams.

Skills

Hook-up coordination

Brownfield modification

Pre-commissioning

Commissioning

HSE standards

Safety management

Live plant safety

SIMOPS

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Permits to work

Job description

Wood is seeking an experienced Hook-Up and Brownfield Manager to lead and coordinate brownfield modifications, tie-ins and commissioning on major offshore/onshore projects in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive live-plant experience, and a proven ability to deliver safely, on time and within budget, with close collaboration across client, PMC/EPC, operations and engineering teams.