Senior Project Engineer

Our Client is a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction services, and we are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Project Engineer to join our team in Qatar on a long-term basis. This key role within the Doha office involves delivering projects across various scopes of work, including study, FEED, EPC, and PMC.

As a Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful execution of project work in accordance with the project execution plan, Wood and/or project procedures, and maintaining safety, quality, and project schedule targets.

Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Champion and promote a strong culture of Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality (HSEQ) both within the organisation and among their clients.
• Support the delivery of project and engineering excellence in collaboration with the Project and Engineering Managers.
• Take ownership of assigned project scope and activities, ensuring timely delivery to the satisfaction of internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the Proposal, Study, or Project Manager for small to medium-sized scopes of work under the guidance of senior management.
• Coordinate activities, collaborate with lead engineers, engineering disciplines, and supporting departments to ensure accurate interpretation of tender and project scopes and meet deadlines.
• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering scope, inputs, and deliverables across multiple locations, including specialist and high-volume engineering centers.
• Ensure strict compliance with contract and scope of work in completing project activities within the established policies, procedures, and systems.
• Ensure the quality of project and engineering deliverables before customer issue, including approval of key deliverables as required.
• Coordinate and develop key project and multidisciplinary deliverables such as Project Execution Plan, Project Plans/Procedures, Basis of Design, Subcontract Scopes of Work, Design Reviews, Study Reports, Project Trackers/Lists, and project plans.
• Coordinate the development of method statements, deliverable lists, manhours, CTRs, and risk assessment to support both tender and project scopes.
• Take responsibility for project schedule, manhours, key milestones, and coordination of medium-sized engineering projects according to established requirements.
• Ensure correct sequence of project delivery, highlighting and managing risks if works are completed out of sequence.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of assigned scope of work, manage project action registers and risk, and stay updated on technical and project issues.
• Chair and document technical and project review meetings with customers, vendors, subcontractors, and other stakeholders, ensuring resolution of technical and project issues.
• Lead project reviews, design reviews, and audits to ensure compliance with Wood and customer expectations.
• Hold and document weekly progress meetings with discipline engineers, assign ownership, and drive actions to closure in a timely manner.
• Act as the day-to-day contact and communication with clients, ensuring their satisfaction throughout the project.
• Manage interfaces with third parties to ensure availability of input for engineering deliverables according to the project schedule.
• Lead site surveys and data gathering activities for brownfield scope of work, taking responsibility for the development of the site survey report.
• Support project and engineering managers in identifying and managing project and technical risks, and taking necessary actions for their resolution.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering discipline.
• Chartered Engineer/Registered Professional Engineer certification is mandatory.
• Ideally, further education and certification in Project Management (PMP or APM).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications for document development, presentations, trackers, and schedules.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and highly driven individual with high standards, attention to detail, and initiative.
• Strong commercial aptitude and awareness, with the ability to interpret and follow contracts and raise potential delays, changes, and commercial matters.
• Excellent communication skills and proven leadership abilities in managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Extensive experience in risk and change management throughout the project lifecycle, including both design and site works.
• Strong coordination skills and experience in resolving complex technical issues and conflicts while prioritizing and planning work logically.
• Experience in a variety of projects and contract scopes, including greenfield and brownfield, onshore and offshore, Pre-FEED through to EPC, with a focus on offshore upstream.
• Familiarity with project phases such as Concept/Feasibility, Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Start-Up, and Warranty.
• Desirable: Site experience in the Construction and Commissioning phase.
• Familiarity with project design and technical reviews, such as HAZID, P&ID, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, Plot Plan, 3D Model Stage Reviews, SAFOP, QRA, etc.
• Experience in developing and managing multi-discipline deliverables, such as equipment lists and weight control, is desirable.
• Ability to interpret complex scopes of work, contracts, schedules, and engineering deliverables such as P&IDs and Plot Plans.
• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to respond to customer needs while achieving project and corporate objectives.
• Familiarity with Qatar O&G customer standards and local regulatory requirements, including Shell DEPs, Qatar Civil Defense requirements for DC1 and DC2, Qatar Construction Standards, etc.
• Ability to build collaborative teams and lead by example in demonstrating Wood's core values.
• Experience in guiding and mentoring other project and discipline engineers.
• Strong analytical and innovation skills to manage scopes of work.
• Experience in project cost control and planning systems.

To apply for this position, you are required to:

• Be available for work in Doha, Qatar
• Confidently deliver assigned scopes of work independently and remotely from management while leading others, with minimal guidance and direction.
• Take ownership of scopes of work, coordinating engineering disciplines and supporting functions to deliver successful outcomes.
• Demonstrate experience working independently and remotely from technical leadership personnel within a small project office, supporting cross-discipline activities.
• Be willing and able to represent Wood in both onshore and offshore surveys, holding relevant certification or willing to undertake suitable training such as BOSIET and H2S Awareness.
• Possess proficient written and spoken communication skills in English, capable of interpreting and disseminating complex scope and contract documents.

Our Client offers a rewarding career with opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are a highly motivated and experienced Senior Project Engineer seeking a challenging role, we invite you to submit your application.

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.