Senior Drilling Contracts & Tender Engineer

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is seeking a seasoned Contracts Engineer to manage Drilling Services commitments in alignment with ADNOC standards. You will develop tender strategies, validate bidder lists, and prepare technical and commercial evaluations for complex contracts on exploration and production projects.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science and about 8 years in drilling technology, with on-site experience and strong negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science (Mechanical /Petroleum or equivalent/relevant discipline)
• 8 years of experience, including involvement in drilling technology, equipment/products and methods. Professional Certifications
• Experience on the well site and financial, tendering/contracting and cost engineering systems and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Identify and validate the Need of Tendering, build up Business Cases, tender strategies and acquire necessary approvals.
• Assess and review competency of existing bidder list companies.
• Participate in pre-qualification of newly registered companies and advise best group to be fit in
• Prepare and participate in Tender Committee meeting, review Tender Board Submission, attends Tender Board meetings as require representing technical aspect of submission.
• Construct technical requirements/scope of work, pricing structure fit working model, specifications to be included in contracts, develop contract / tendering strategies, provide engineering support for tendering activities, conduct technical and commercial evaluations, assisting in negotiations, etc.
• Review Tender packages to assure clarity of Request for Tendering (RFT) and in line with ADNOC Standards and compliant with Scope of Work
• Capture Variations expose during contract life through right Delegation of Authority.
• Perform functional review for the completed Tender documents.
• Follow up the status of Mobilization, HSE rules compliance and implementation of corrective actions, performance management and contractor allocation.
• Coordinates internally with other Team members to ensure contract effectiveness, capture lessons from current contracts and apply for upcoming contracts
• Prepare allocation based on the approved share allocation and in relation to contractor’s performance and capabilities.
• Compliance with Contracts status reporting.
• Assure Contract validity, contract completion and close out. Review Contractor performance evaluation and managing contracts disputes. Negotiate Contract claims and variations in association with Procurement Division and Legal.
• Periodically revisit the contract commitment (un-used Release Orders) and clear them and reconcile contract value.
• Managing contracts resources (people, equipment’s, etc.) to ensure business continuity and cater business requirements.
• Liaise with HSE, QA&QC team and end users to assure Equipment and Services are within required standards of work.

Skills

Tendering

Contract management

Negotiations

Drilling services

Cost engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science (Mechanical /Petroleum or equivalent/relevant discipline)

Job description

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is seeking a seasoned Contracts Engineer to manage Drilling Services commitments in alignment with ADNOC standards. You will develop tender strategies, validate bidder lists, and prepare technical and commercial evaluations for complex contracts on exploration and production projects.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science and about 8 years in drilling technology, with on-site experience and strong negotiation skills.