Qatar, Qatar
Fulltime: 60 hrs a week
Experience: 5 years
Closing: February 06, 2025

Introduction

  • Facilitate all internal and external interactions and relationships with Stakeholders, Contractors, Regulatory Bodies, Partners, and Third Parties ensuring seamless communication, compliance, and collaboration across project life cycle.
  • Provide support to Interface Department in interface and alignment of engineering, procurement, fabrication, execution, Installation, quality, integration, and planning activities across multiple Project Management Teams (PMT).
  • Lead project interface activities to successfully deliver and support planned execution activities in a complex site environment with varying project deadlines.
  • The prime intention is the establishment of interfaces and controls to ensure that the overall schedule and integrity of the subsea, offshore and onshore facilities/ projects is maintained and that the interfacing parties fully understand their accountabilities and responsibilities.
  • Handle and facilitate the approval of multiple technical Interface and crossing agreements with internal & external stakeholders.

What are you going to do 

  • Manage, monitor, and coordinate all external and internal technical interface agreements (IA)/Interface Queries (IQs) and ensure that a comprehensive, multi-functional review of all IAs/ IQs/ critical interfaces, responses, to and from the interface parties, meets requirements ahead of schedule.
  • Assist in providing Commercial group with all information related to the interface agreement needed to develop commercial agreement and Access &Indemnity Agreement.
  • Maintain the technical interface database and report on the status of the IQs, IA/Crossing actions items, critical interfaces, providing progress updates on IA/ IQ process and communicate these to management as per COMPANY protocol. Ensure that correspondence with internal and external parties in relation to schedule is coordinated and followed-up.
  • Early identification and establishment of interdependent/multi-discipline interfaces and controls between various concurrent and future projects to ensure that the overall integrity and completion schedule of the facilities/ projects is maintained such that the interfacing parties fully understand their accountabilities and responsibilities and perform to achieve the desired goals and objectives.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders and Contractor. Act as the primary point of contact for all internal/ external communications and interface activities ensuring timely and effective communication with all internal parties/ external parties/ Contractor.
  • Assist with developing guidelines, processes, and procedures necessary to support and control the Interface Agreement process and projects.
  • Prepare information on overall IA/ IQ/ critical interface process performance and suggest and implement improvements and ensures that interface agreement process is appropriate, well established and maintained.
  • Ensures Contractor implement effective IA Management Plan, IA/IQ/ critical interface Registers and updates/maintains the registers as required in areas of work scope.
  • Facilitates submission, tracking and expediting review/approval of IAs/IQs to OPCO, other Major Projects and third parties.
  • Facilitates discussions/ agreements between Contractor and PMT/ other stakeholders where interface problems have arisen, works with PMT functional leads to resolve interface issues/comments.
  • Facilitates review to ensure completeness/ readiness of technical submissions for approval of Interface/Crossing Agreements and close out packages of Interface/Crossing Agreements.
  • Ensures that all IA’s managed by Contractor are agreed and closed with the demonstration that Contractor’s final documentation reflects the received data and inputs from agreed IAs.
  • Schedule/ attends regular meetings, issues minutes of meetings, with interfacing organizations to ensure timely communications of issues and minimizes interfacing disconnects and ensures cross-functional follow-up on action items developed during the interface meetings.
  • Lead and coordinate complex external interfaces including the potential for simultaneous operations (SIMOPS).
  • Support and monitor status of Contractor Interface Agreement and Interface queries issuance by using TEMPO [Technical Environment for Major Projects Organization] and procedures governing projects and communicating changes to head of Interface to manage with other external parties if needed

Essential skills and knowledge 

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in a major/ capital projects environment, with broad experience of multi-discipline engineering/execution, in the oil and gas industry with 3 years in a supervisory position.
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Interface Agreement Management System & procedures.
  • In depth understanding of the engineering and execution related interdependencies between the interfacing subsea and offshore projects.
  • Previous experience on similar offshore, subsea and onshore projects which includes extensive interaction with other Capital projects & third parties.
  • Proven project management and offshore brownfield execution experience.
  • Requires strong analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and demonstrate superior organization skills.
  • Excellent analytical, interpretive and computer skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Independent and able to initiate and recommend solutions encompassing various technical specialties.
  • Independent, able to work under minimum supervisory.
  • Computer literate, working application of Microsoft Office Suite

What we offer 

  • Salary:
    • Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
  • Work Schedule:
    • 10 Hours / 6 Days
  • Duration:
    • 31-Jan-2028 with possible extension
  • Location:
    • Qatar