Senior Production Engineer - Fabrication

Mc Dermott; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,880 - 334,800; Full time

Job summary

Mc Dermott is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to lead fabrication activities in Dubai, UAE for the Oil and Energy sector. This role involves overseeing production engineers, managing fabrication planning, and resolving technical issues to ensure successful project execution.

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and at least 5 years of relevant experience. The position offers a full-time contract with an estimated salary range of 18,000-30,000 AED.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in offshore, petrochemical, oil and gas, EPIC, or fabrication project environments.
• Strong expertise in production engineering and productivity optimization.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in large-scale project execution.

Responsibilities

• Supervise discipline production engineers to identify project resource needs.
• Review contractual scope of work and project requirements.
• Lead fabrication planning and chair production sessions.

Skills

Production engineering

Fabrication planning

Offshore project execution

Petrochemical project support

EPIC project delivery

Constructability review

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Relevant software for production engineering

Job description

Senior Production Engineer - Fabrication

Job Snapshot: Role: Senior Production Engineer, Location: Dubai, UAE, Industry: Oil and Energy, Function: Production Engineering/Planning/Scheduling, Experience: 5 years, Job Type: Full-time.

Overview

Senior Production Engineer in Dubai, UAE for the Oil and Energy sector is a fabrication-focused engineering role supporting production planning, constructability, work pack control, material priorities, productivity tracking, and discipline-level project execution. This opportunity is suited to an experienced production engineering professional who can lead fabrication teams, solve technical site issues, coordinate across functions, and help deliver complex offshore and petrochemical projects within schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

Job Details

Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Production Engineering/Planning/Scheduling
Salary: 18000-30000 (Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise discipline production engineers and identify project resource needs for regular communication with production leadership.
• Review the full contractual scope of work, contract type, milestone schedule, fabrication priorities, and project reporting requirements.
• Review constructability and ensure the work execution plan is based on the most productive fabrication approach.
• Lead fabrication 4-week lookahead planning, including material priorities, drawing readiness, engineering inputs, and production sequencing.
• Chair production planning sessions and align forecast fabrication and engineering requirements with the project contract schedule.
• Initiate and approve revision orders and change orders while ensuring lessons learned are captured for future improvement.
• Resolve technical problems and initiate site queries to reduce work disruption and protect fabrication productivity.
• Chair weekly project production meetings and manage weekly fabrication progress, productivity, budget alignment, and action tracking.
• Manage scope changes, maintain AFC estimate accuracy, and ensure revision or change orders are raised when required.
• Inform fabrication management of project issues that may affect forecast progress, productivity, schedule, or delivery commitments.
• Develop work pack indexes and set priorities, deliverable dates, and execution expectations for discipline teams.
• Direct discipline groups on material ordering priorities and schedule dates in line with fabrication sequence.
• Review material expediting reports and advise procurement teams on concerns, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Authorize technical queries and project correspondence for client submission.
• Develop project fabrication execution plans that meet contract requirements in the most productive manner.
• Coordinate with project cost engineers, marine operations engineers, quality managers, engineering teams, SCM, hook‑up teams, and other project functions.
• Lead discipline‑level constructability reviews and resolve construction problems across intra‑functional and inter‑functional interfaces.
• Guide production engineering teams, drafting squad leaders, material controllers, and project support personnel to meet fabrication deliverables.
• Build productive working relationships with project superintendents and supervision teams to achieve fabrication targets.
• Ensure documentation, compliance, and procedural requirements are maintained throughout project phases.
• Attend expediting meetings to communicate material delivery priorities and marine deliverable requirements.
• Support project operations engineering with AFC estimate reviews, subcontract coordination, project status reports, fabrication sequencing, and constructability planning.
• Support fabrication bid coordination activities for assigned bid projects when required.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in offshore, petrochemical, oil and gas, EPIC, or fabrication project environments.
• Strong expertise in production engineering, fabrication planning, constructability, and productivity optimization.
• Good understanding of industry standards and best practices related to production processes and fabrication facilities.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and support large‑scale project execution.
• Strong technical problem‑solving skills with the ability to address complex fabrication and production challenges.
• Proficient in relevant software and tools used for production engineering, planning, reporting, and fabrication coordination.
• Technically capable of planning and delivering discipline‑level fabrication efforts for complex EPIC projects.
• Strong communication skills for coordination with operations, engineering, procurement, quality, cost control, marine operations, hook‑up teams, subcontractors, and client representatives.
• Able to work in a fast‑paced project environment with changing priorities, tight schedules, and multiple stakeholder interfaces.

Skills Set

• Production engineering
• Fabrication planning
• Offshore project execution
• Petrochemical project support
• EPIC project delivery
• Constructability review
• 4‑week lookahead planning
• Work pack index development
• Fabrication execution planning
• Material priority control
• Drawing readiness tracking
• Site query management
• Revision order control
• Change order support
• AFC estimate review
• Progress reporting
• Productivity monitoring
• Manhour control
• Material expediting
• Procurement coordination
• Marine deliverable coordination
• Subcontract coordination
• Client technical queries
• Discipline team leadership
• Fabrication bid support

Why Join Us

• Lead fabrication production engineering activities on complex Oil and Energy projects in Dubai.
• Build strong exposure to offshore, petrochemical, EPIC, fabrication, marine, procurement, and project operations interfaces.
• Take a key role in improving productivity, constructability, material readiness, and schedule performance across major project deliverables.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams where production engineering decisions directly support safe and efficient fabrication execution.
• Strengthen long‑term career growth in fabrication leadership, production planning, project execution, and energy infrastructure delivery.