Lead Construction Engineer

Explore more jobs; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley in Kuwait is seeking a Senior Construction Engineer to lead and manage construction and completions across PMC projects, ensuring design integrity while delivering within field contracts.

The role requires deep experience in oil & gas, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and performance testing, with proven leadership of a team and ability to deliver under tight deadlines in a large-scale project environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum 10 years total experience post graduate studies.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the oil & gas, refinery, or petrochemical industry.
• Minimum 5 years of recent experience as a lead construction engineer or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Promote and drive the involvement of construction in areas of technical design, schedule, preliminary execution planning, and cost estimating.
• Develop and maintain a familiarity and appreciation of capability and ongoing workload of construction’s support providers/contractors.
• Develop and maintain functional responsibility for all construction and completions personnel.
• Technical competence of construction personnel.
• Forecast requirement for construction engineering resources and allocate those resources.
• Prepare man hour estimates to perform project tasks.
• Promote cost reduction and productivity enhancing initiatives.
• Prepare weekly progress and expenditure reports on a project specific basis.

Skills

Team leadership

Oil & gas experience

Pre-commissioning

Commissioning

Equipment documentation

Heavy lifting equipment

Project scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Primary objective

Development and management of construction and completions capability across PMC projects ensuring that design integrity is not compromised while managing the department in the execution of the process. Managing and executing the projects according to the field contract.

What you will do:

• Promote and drive the involvement of construction in areas of technical design, schedule, preliminary execution planning, and cost estimating.
• Develop and maintain a familiarity and appreciation of capability and ongoing workload of construction’s support providers/contractors.
• Develop and maintain functional responsibility for all construction and completions personnel.
• Technical competence of construction personnel.
• Forecast requirement for construction engineering resources and allocate those resources.
• Prepare man hour estimates to perform project tasks.
• Promote cost reduction and productivity enhancing initiatives.
• Prepare weekly progress and expenditure reports on a project specific basis.

What you will bring:

• Familiar with management of heavy lifting equipment and large earth moving activities.
• Demonstrated experience of working in the oil & gas industry. Must have proven track record in leading a team.
• Pre-commissioning and commissioning and performance testing experience.
• Experienced in the specification, evaluation and documentation of equipment.
• Work is performed in accordance with broad technical guidelines and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritization of work to achieve them.

Qualifications / experience

• Full-time bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum 10 years of total experience post graduate studies.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the oil & gas, refinery, or petrochemical industry.
• Minimum 5 years of recent experience as a lead construction engineer or equivalent.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.

And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

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