Senior Engineer

Petrofac; Sharjah; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Petrofac is seeking a Senior Engineer - Projects to join our team in Sharjah, UAE. You will lead project planning, scheduling and expediting activities, coordinating with clients and suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and compliance with contract requirements.

The role requires an engineering degree and a minimum of 10 years of project management experience in the oil and gas sector, with a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with 10+ years of project management experience in oil and gas.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and schedules.
• Strong vendor management and procurement coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Review project planning and create schedules aligned with requirements.
• Generate and manage Technical Document Register (TDR) and monitor drawing deliveries.
• Review engineering documents for constructability and prepare purchase requests.
• Develop project procedures to cover contract requirements.
• Coordinate project activities across departments to avoid delays.
• Oversee outsourcing to subcontractors, bid evaluation and contract terms.
• Monitor progress and implement corrective actions to meet client needs.
• Ensure resource availability and timely client approvals and meetings.
• Expedite supplier deliveries and manage inspection releases and MRVs.
• Investigate and resolve ESD issues with procurement and QA/QC.

Skills

Project coordination

Vendor management

Scheduling

Client liaison

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Petrofac is currently looking to recruit a Senior Engineer - Projects to be based in Sharjah, UAE.

What we do

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for the energy industries. Our comprehensive and tailored service offering covers each stage of the project life cycle and a variety of commercial models, giving our clients the flexibility, they need.

Primary Duties:

• Participate in the review of the project planning process and create a schedule, which is in line with the project requirements including establishing the sequence and duration of activities.
• Generate TDR (Technical Document Register) as a level 4 schedule and ensure that all relevant data required for construction is contained in it. Monitor the issue of drawings as per the forecast dates mentioned in the TDR, identify any discrepancies and bring it to the attention of the Lead Engineer. Take corrective actions wherever required in the case of missing data from either the client or vendor.
• Review Engineering drawings, documents and deliverables relating to area of functional responsibility to assess constructability and consistency with contract requirements. Prepare and issue purchase requests for materials and consumables.
• Prepare project specific and other procedures to ensure comprehensive cover of all project activities per the contract requirements.
• Coordinate all project related activities with other departments and sections to ensure effective integration of tasks and minimize potential delays.
• Participate in the finalization of work to be outsourced to sub-contractors including bid evaluation and terms of contract.
• Monitor the progress of the project as per the project plan and against the client’s requirements and take corrective action whenever required.
• Ensure the availability of necessary resources for the smooth execution of the project.
• Follow up with clients on approvals and instructions, attend client meetings and liaise with client on all issues of the project deliverables.
• Steer post award kick off meeting with vendor, Expedite, monitor and review vendor deliverables in line with contractual requirements, execution schedule, Purchase Order requirements and terms & conditions, ensure suborders of materials are in line with supplier’s engineering and manufacturing schedule, and monitor respective deliveries. Resolve any potential operational issues that may impact the deliveries, Monitor the recovery of delays and implementation of remedial actions. Identify Risks and liaise with stakeholders to mitigate delays and cost impacts. Update order progress periodically.
• Effectively nurture and maintain professional and healthy relationship with suppliers, conduct and monitor
• Carry out a routine check for field expediting requirements at supplier’s shop and plan expediting visits accordingly after consultation with the Project Manager, Solicit supplier to maintain an inspection plan, liaise with QA/QC and coordinate inspection visits. Review flash report and follow up on approvals by QA/QC. Review inspection release note issued by QA/QC and Issue shipping release Note (SRN) to supplier and logistic team to trigger the shipping process. Expedite suppliers’ shipping documents, liaise with the shipping department for plan and timely movement of goods prior to readiness of consignment. And monitoring until obtaining Material Receipt Voucher (MRV) from material controller on site.
• Investigate causes of Excess, Shortage, and Damage (ESD) of supplies. Coordinate with the supplier and the procurement department to resolve ESDs and safeguard a genuine material receipt report.
• Advise supplier on invoicing instructions, Review ,verify and administer supplier invoices for payment against progress milestones.

An engineering degree with a minimum of 10 years of project management experience in the oil and gas sector.

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