Title: Senior Project Engineering Manager
Job Purpose
To establish and maintain good working relationships with customer management teams; To plan and co-ordinate multi-discipline engineering design assignments within and across disciplines to agreed time and cost limits; To develop solutions to engineering problems which meet or exceed customer requirements; To manage the delivery of all design deliverables in accordance with project HSE and quality requirements, negotiating revisions to cost and schedule where necessary; Manage the workshare process; Ensure proper implementation and application of the workshare methodology; Promote operational level teamwork in support of successful workshare.
- Project Budget: up to 100M USD TIC
- Project Type: Reimbursable / Lumpsum
- Project Phases: EPC / EPCM Phase
Main Scope/Responsibilities
- Leadership
- Coordinate implementation of JSTEPS, the Project Execution Plan, and client-directed work processes or best practices during each phase of the project
- Review the project contract and fully understand JESA’ contractual requirements;
- Act as the project manager on behalf of the project manager when so assigned;
- Review discipline professional services estimates and consolidate into an overall engineering estimate;
- Ensure the Technical Integrity of design output;
- Ensure all design engineering activities meet or exceed engineering standards with regard to quality, cost, safety, and performance;
- Plan and manage engineering and design systems implementation, technical specifications, standard drawings standard setup of models, etc. and data management systems;
- Plan and manage engineering resources;
- Manage value improvement processes;
- Ensure quality and consistency of technical output;
- Ensure the project team is working within the provisions and standards of the Quality Assurance system relevant to the project;
- Provide a technical interface with the customer;
- Manage third party consultants/specialists
- Safety
- Ensure understanding and compliance and with safety in design (SID) initiatives and technical guidelines;
- To ensure HSE has the highest priority in all activities undertaken by Engineering and Design personnel; Ensure the project team follows safe working practices and follow Health Safety and Environment (HSE) procedures
- Technical
- Coordinate the development, client review, client approval, and implementation of project specific procedures, specifications, and standards including the basic engineering data (BED sheets);
- Assist the construction and subcontract groups in defining construction, subcontracts;
- Coordinate and participate in modular construction reviews and constructability reviews;
- Actively participate and monitor purchase commitments and subcontracts to ensure the design, fabrication, delivery of materials and execution of the work are in accordance with project requirements; Assist with vendor and subcontractor bidding and selection process (request for quotation, bid tab and purchase order approvals);
- Support disciplines in resolving technical and schedule related issues with vendors in a timely fashion that supports the project schedule;
- Lead, coordinate, and participate in task force reviews of P&IDs, plot plans, equipment arrangements, model reviews, HAZOP reviews and other similar project activities;
- Hold and coordinate weekly Management of Change OC approval meetings with disciplines;
- Ensure engineering deliverables are properly reviewed, checked and approved in a timely fashion utilizing JPI approval and confirmation commands;
- Work closely with the document management group to coordinate and expedite the flow of information among the disciplines to keep project on schedule;
- Monitor comments on interdisciplinary squad check documents
Main Scope/Responsibilities (continued)
- Administration
- Implement the established uniform project filing system through Document;
- Management and issue file index as required by client;
- Ensure project access rights are set up correctly for JPI and other project systems;
- Provide feedback to the discipline department managers as to the performance of the discipline team and the discipline lead;
- Be the point project person who works with the discipline managers to staff and de-staff the project; Conduct project meetings and ensure meeting notes are recorded and issued in a timely fashion;
- Initiate and maintain the project Needs List;
- Monitor and address changes to project scope; Work closely with document management for the orderly flow of information within the project
- Schedules
- Actively participate in the interactive planning sessions and be able to identify schedule sequence and timing problems from a discipline perspective;
- Monitor all critical path links in the schedule and ensure disciplines are meeting schedule milestones; Ensure changes of deliverables are reflected in the schedule to allow for planning of schedule recovery/acceleration, or the proper schedule slippage/improvement is implemented and approved; Ensure change notices are submitted and approved in a timely fashion and adequately reflect schedule impacts
- Budget
- Hold planning sessions with the disciplines when change notices are denied and/or budgets are unilaterally cut, to accomplish project goals with reduced allocated resources;
- Enforce management of change as it relates to discipline budgets;
- Assist the project manager with monthly reviews from the disciplines and progress reviews;
- Manage project budget to ensure that there are no surprises
- Workshare
- Identify and mitigate workshare risks and challenges;
- Coordinate with Supporting Office the preparation of cost and professional services estimates;
- Ensure the successful establishment and utilization of regular, frequent communications between project teams in line with project communications plan;
- Coordinate and expedite Technical Queries from Supporting Office;
- Coordinate timely delivery of accurate/complete input data to Supporting Office;
- Assist project teams as required with setup, management and understanding of the project SharePoint project portal.
- Provide guidance on best use of communication and collaboration tools and systems.
- Arrange training if required; Assist project teams to ensure alignment and agreement of Engineering Design Systems (EDS), Engineering Data Management (EDM) and associated work processes.
- Ensure project EDS and EDM documentation covers workshare aspects;
- Assist project teams to ensure alignment and agreement use of project controls work process.
- Monitor and report Supporting Office project schedule and cost performance;
- Work with the home office to prepare the Workshare Execution Plan (WEP) and Work Release Packages (WRP);
- Work with the Supporting Office to ensure the Supporting Office portion of the project is executed in line with Home Office requirements as documented in the WEP or WRP;
- Ensure Supporting Office has been provided with, and is working to, the project procedures
Education
- Engineering Degree or more
- Curricula: One of the following Engineering Disciplines
- Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Process, Piping or Instrumentation & Control Engineering
Global Experience
- 15 to 20 years
Specific Experience in the position
- Completed Project Min Required: 100 000 Hours
- Minimum of 2 years experience in field engineering on a construction phase
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Construction, Engineering Manager, Project Engineer, QA, Field Engineer, Engineering, Quality