Senior Digital Project Engineer (Safety Barrier Degradation Monitoring Tool)

Job Title:
Senior Digital Project Engineer (Safety Barrier Degradation Monitoring Tool)

Location:
Doha, Qatar
(Office-based | Standard hours: 5 days/week)

Overview:
A challenging and high-impact opportunity is available for a Senior Digital Project Engineer to lead the development and deployment of a cutting-edge Safety Barrier Degradation Monitoring Tool. This role will drive the technical, strategic, and tactical dimensions of a digital solution designed to enhance safety, integrity, and operational efficiency across complex offshore operations. The position sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, digital innovation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership

• Develop and update bow-tie diagrams including PFD values aligned with OREDA standards.
• Deliver accurate impact assessments for field modifications and risk evaluations.
• Lead integrity and major risks (IMR) assurance efforts and represent IMR during all impact assessment sessions.
• Use tools such as Bowtie XP and DNV PHAST to perform risk and consequence analysis.
• Chair key safety workshops (HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA) and conduct standalone integrity threat risk assessments.

Strategic Direction

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and stakeholder engagement plan.
• Represent users and business in the agile digital project group, focusing on product value and user adoption.
• Ensure product design aligns with UX/UI best practices and supports business transformation goals.

Tactical Delivery

• Manage and deliver use cases in line with defined requirements and agile sprint timelines.
• Foster collaboration across departments, external consultants, and tech partners.
• Provide support to the Scrum Master and ensure efficient squad performance.
• Report functionally to the business manager and line-report to the Head of Product Owners.

Role Context & Impact
This role is central to the development of a digital twin initiative supporting a highly complex offshore field. It directly contributes to reducing major risks, improving production efficiency, and aligning with national safety objectives. You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team within a larger Digital Project Group of approximately 30 people, with a significant budget and strategic importance.

• Team Size: Squad of ~6 (internal staff, consultants, partners)
• Collaborators: Operations, Engineering, Drilling, Logistics, HSEQ
• Industry Visibility: Opportunities for participation in Joint Industry Projects (e.g., QP, TOTAL)

Requirements & Qualifications

• Degree or Master's in Engineering (Chemical Engineering preferred)
• Extensive experience in upstream oil & gas, including:
  • Prior work in Safety Engineering and technical integrity
  • Experience with integrity assurance tools and methodologies
• Familiar with QRA, FERA, SECE, bowtie development (per IOGP standards)
• Functional Safety certification and experience leading HAZOP studies
• Working knowledge of agile methodologies and UX design principles
• Strong communication, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.