Senior Engineer - Projects

What We Do

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies. We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for the energy industries. Our comprehensive and tailored service offering covers each stage of the project life cycle and a variety of commercial models, giving our clients the flexibility they need.

• Participate in the review of the project planning process and create a schedule, which is in line with the project requirements, including establishing the sequence and duration of activities.
• Generate a Technical Document Register (TDR) as a level 4 schedule and ensure that all relevant data required for construction is contained in it. Monitor the issue of drawings as per the forecast dates mentioned in the TDR, identify any discrepancies, and bring them to the attention of the Lead Engineer. Take corrective actions wherever required in the case of missing data from either the client or vendor.
• Review engineering drawings, documents and deliverables relating to the area of functional responsibility to assess constructability and consistency with contract requirements. Prepare and issue purchase requests for materials and consumables.
• Prepare project‑specific and other procedures to ensure comprehensive coverage of all project activities as per the contract requirements.
• Coordinate all project‑related activities with other departments and sections to ensure effective integration of tasks and minimise potential delays.
• Participate in the finalisation of work to be outsourced to sub‑contractors, including bid evaluation and terms of contract.
• Monitor the progress of the project as per the project plan and against the client’s requirements, and take corrective action whenever required.
• Ensure the availability of necessary resources for the smooth execution of the project. Follow up with clients on approvals and instructions, attend client meetings and liaise with clients on all issues of the project deliverables.
• Steer post‑award kick‑off meeting with the vendor, expedite, monitor and review vendor deliverables in line with contractual requirements, execution schedule, Purchase Order requirements and terms and conditions; ensure sub‑orders of materials are in line with the supplier’s engineering and manufacturing schedule, and monitor respective deliveries. Resolve any potential operational issues that may impact the deliveries, monitor the recovery of delays and implementation of remedial actions, identify risks and liaise with stakeholders to mitigate delays and cost impacts, and update order progress periodically.
• Effectually nurture and maintain a professional and healthy relationship with suppliers, conduct and monitor objective supplier performance appraisal.
• Carry out a routine check for field expediting requirements at the supplier’s shop and plan expediting visits accordingly after consultation with the Project Manager, solicit suppliers to maintain an inspection plan, liaise with QA/QC and coordinate inspection visits. Review flash reports and follow up on approvals by QA/QC. Review inspection release notes issued by QA/QC and issue shipping release notes (SRN) to suppliers and the logistic team to trigger the shipping process.
  
  Expedite suppliers’ shipping documents, liaise with the shipping department for plan and timely movement of goods prior to readiness of consignment, and monitor until obtaining Material Receipt Voucher (MRV) from the material controller on site.
• Investigate causes of Excess, Shortage, and Damage (ESD) of supplies. Coordinate with the supplier and the procurement department to resolve ESDs and safeguard a genuine material receipt report.
• Advise suppliers on invoicing instructions, review, verify and administer supplier invoices for payment against progress milestones.

An engineering degree with a minimum of 10 years of project management experience in the oil and gas sector.