Interface Manager

Worley Parsons; Muscat; On-site; OMR 69,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley is seeking a senior leader to drive safety, integrity, and delivery across Brownfield EPCM projects in the oil and gas sector. You will coordinate a large, diverse team, align customer objectives, and mentor the Contract Leadership Team to achieve project success.

As a key interface and technical coordinator, you will ensure schedule adherence, seamless engineering alignment, and risk mitigation across multiple work packages.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in mechanical or process engineering or equivalent.
• 20+ years in Oil & Gas industry.
• 15+ years Brownfield Oil & Gas project delivery in PM, Engineering or Design roles.
• 15+ years working with multidisciplinary project delivery teams in complex environments.
• Experience managing portfolios of projects and coordinating multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote safety culture across projects.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage the EPCM team for Brownfield projects' delivery.
• Ensure alignment of customer objectives across stakeholders to meet or exceed expectations.
• Act as mentor to the Contract Leadership Team with guidance and direction.
• Provide leadership to establish project vision and develop strategies for success.
• Foster collaboration, resolve issues, remove barriers, and drive performance to meet goals.
• Coordinate interfaces between multiple project work packages and ensure schedule compliance.
• Establish and maintain interface management processes and close issues effectively.
• Liaise with Engineering Managers and Discipline Engineers for technical alignment.
• Coordinate with Delivery Managers, Package Managers, and Project Engineers for execution alignment.
• Develop and issue interface status reports with progress, risks, and actions.
• Facilitate meetings to resolve interface issues and reduce risks.
• Monitor interface performance and timely resolution of actions.
• Support multidisciplinary teams in mitigating interface risks.

Skills

HSSE leadership

Interface management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

EPCM project delivery

Engineering coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Process Engineering or equivalent

Job description

About us

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 Objectives / Responsibilities

• Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage the EPCM team to ensure the successful delivery of a portfolio of Brownfield EPCM projects.
• Ensure clear alignment and communication of customer objectives across all project stakeholders to achieve or exceed expectations.
• Act as a mentor and coach to the Contract Leadership Team, providing guidance, support, and direction.
• Provide clear and focused leadership to establish a vision for project success and develop strategies to achieve project objectives.
• Foster collaboration, resolve issues, remove barriers, and drive team performance to achieve contractual and business goals.

Specific Accountabilities

• Coordinate interfaces between multiple project work packages.
• Manage and coordinate interfaces between multiple work packages to ensure schedule compliance, alignment of design basis, and efficient project execution.
• Establish and maintain interface management processes, tools, and procedures to ensure interface issues are communicated, documented, monitored, and closed effectively.
• Liaise with Engineering Managers and Discipline Engineers to ensure technical alignment and consistency across designs.
• Liaise with Delivery Managers, Package Managers, Project Engineers, and Construction Managers to ensure alignment of project execution and construction activities.
• Develop and issue interface status reports, including progress updates, key concerns, risks, and critical interface actions.
• Facilitate meetings between stakeholders to resolve interface issues and reduce technical, schedule, and execution risks.
• Monitor interface performance and ensure timely resolution of interface-related actions.
• Support multidisciplinary teams in identifying and mitigating project interface risks.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 20 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Brownfield Oil & Gas project delivery within Project Management, Engineering, or Design roles.
• Minimum 15 years of experience working with multidisciplinary project delivery teams in complex project environments.
• Experience managing portfolios of projects and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• Experience managing resources within multicultural and diverse work environments.
• Demonstrated commitment to HSSE leadership and management within Brownfield project environments.
• High level of customer focus and stakeholder management capability.
• Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project execution activities.
• Experience managing EPCM projects.

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.