Senior Hook & Commissioning Manager

McDermott International, Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

McDermott International, Ltd. seeks a Senior HUC Manager to lead hook up and commissioning planning for offshore projects. You will supervise HUC engineers, shape offshore marine spread, and ensure safe, cost-effective delivery to client specifications.

With 15+ years in offshore Oil & Gas and a Bachelor’s in Engineering, you will drive readiness, manage budgets, and mentor teams while coordinating with internal departments and clients to meet execution targets.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in offshore Oil & Gas with a minimum of 5 years in a similar role.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop project HUC scope and deliverables including plans and schedules.
• Lead and manage the HUC team to deliver work per plan.
• Interface with internal departments to align strategies.
• Conduct constructability reviews and ensure safe, cost-effective solutions.
• Oversee readiness, mobilization, and offshore execution readiness.
• Manage marine spread including vessels and support boats.
• Control the assigned HUC budget and report variances.
• Develop client relationships and conduct project meetings.
• Facilitate HAZID and SIMOPS workshops.
• Identify and manage business and operational risks; pursue opportunities.
• Ensure subcontractor and vendor requirements are defined and assigned.
• Multitask across offshore campaigns and liaise with stakeholders.
• Lead daily offshore calls and ensure safety of personnel.
• Mobilize offshore with visible leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project planning

Safety leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

As the project Senior HUC Manager you are responsible for managing the planning and delivery of an assigned project’s Hook Up and Commissioning scope. This includes day to day management of assigned hook up and commissioning engineers, strategic planning of offshore marine spread including JUBs. Ensuring detailed work scopes are prepared and scheduled, manpower assigned and work is ultimately executed safely and to the highest standards. Strong commercial knowledge is required to report to management on cost as well as general HUC progress, and put mitigations in place where needed.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Review, define, and develop project HUC scope and deliverables including HUC execution plans and schedules.
• Management of assigned HUC team to ensure work is delivered as per plan
• Interfacing with other internal departments and ensuring alignment and strategies are developed
• Responsible for constructability reviews and ensure items are agreed and closed with cost effective solutions and safe work practices
• Ensuring readiness process is conducted, followed, reported and agreed prior to mobilization
• Management of marine spread including JUBs, workboats & supply boats
• Controlling and managing the assigned HUC budget and report against the budget (EAC)
• Responsible for developing client relationship, conduct project meetings with client, ensure alignment for execution strategies, deliverables etc.
• Responsible for conducting HAZID and SIMOPS workshops.
• Ensuring that business and operational risks are identified and managed, and opportunities identified.
• Ensure critical subcontractors and vendors requirement is pre-defined and assigned
• Have a strong ability to multitask, managing various offshore campaigns and internal/external stakeholders
• Manage daily progress during execution campaigns, lead daily offshore calls, ensure the safety of personnel
• Mobilize offshore to ensure visible leadership is felt

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 15+ years in offshore Oil & Gas with a minimum of 5 years in a similar role
• Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering