Piping Engineering Lead

Job title: Piping Engineering Lead

Assignment type: Contract

Contract duration: 3 years (with possibility to extend)

Work location: Qatar Onshore

Work schedule: 6 days per week, 10 hours per day

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the piping engineering activities for the Offshore Project, ensuring technical requirements (e.g., project specifications, stress results, data sheets, etc.) fully comply with project deliverables and standardised processes and to provide functional safety design support to Project pipeline engineering manager ensuring all aspects are delivered to the highest standards.
• Ensure that the Contractor's onshore and subsea piping design comply with the Contract requirements including codes and standards. Provide guidance to the contractor to promote compliance.
• Plan and schedule the piping engineering deliverables to enable efficient project execution, ensuring technical alignment and compliance with Company operational policies, standards of business conduct and project management system.
• Supervises and ensures that the Contractor's functional safety of subsea, onshore facilities (offshore scope) engineering and pipeline designs comply with the Contract requirements including codes and standards. Provide guidance to the contractor to promote compliance.
• Participate to key design workshop and ensure that piping, functional safety design recommendations are correctly implemented, and actions closed before the end of EPCI (lessons learned, value engineering, HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, engineering criticality assessment, etc.).
• Supervises the engineering interface between the topsides, onshore facilities (offshore scope) and pipeline engineering and the following teams: operations, drilling, well management, jacket, topsides from pipelines perspective, the onshore project team.
• Support the piping related purchase orders with the EPC Contractor and system Vendor in accordance with the roles and responsibilities given in the contract to ensure safe and seamless integration of the systems without any disturbance to the existing operating facilities.
• Supports Project pipeline engineering manager in monitoring the contractor's progress on delivery of the required documents in the piping and pipeline disciplines.
• Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with respect the disciplines involved in delivery of the piping related to pipelines engineering and ensures endorsement of piping technical deviations to Company specifications when required.
• Ensure compliance with management of change procedures for changes in the contractor's design or deviations from the company directives.

Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelors engineering degree/diploma in related fields.
• 10+ years of relevant experience as piping engineering lead, in a major project environment within the oil and gas industry
• Having a broad knowledge of engineering execution including design standards, specifications, codes, safety criteria, offshore facilities design, construction and operations.
• Experience working on subsea and onshore pipeline systems.
• Good knowledge of piping, stress engineering, subsea, onshore pipeline, and mechanical equipment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a focus on teamwork and the ability to communicate and interact within a PMT.
• A high level of proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Computer literacy involving the regular use of professional office applications and some technical applications.