Engineering Manager - Topsides

Purpose

• Applies Project knowledge, Engineering knowledge and seasoned experience to independently manage the engineering and design of a project, resolve interface issues across different engineering disciplines and support the fabrication, installation, commissioning and start up of facilities and equipment/ utilities interface associated with the conversion and outfitting of FSO / FPSO tankers, conversion of MOPU jack-ups for production operations or deep water TLP project.

Core Responsibilities:

• Specialist knowledge: Specialist knowledge of at least one FPSO project line or basic knowledge of multiple technologies, projects, and applications. Working knowledge of competing and alternative technologies.
• Design Evaluation: Evaluates all designs for subsystem components (participating in various design review meetings with the engineering department) from various perspectives, including the perspective of Operation.
• Procedure Implementation: Monitors and analyzes the effectiveness in the implementation of all engineering procedures.
• Interface Management: Provides an efficient interface with all engineering systems and processes and ensures adherence to all best industry practices to resolve all client issues.
• Problem Solving: Administers and designs effective solutions to address all complex problems and coordinates with customer management on these matters.
• Process Issue Resolution: Assists various departments in resolving all issues on engineering processes, including investigating all discrepancies in processes and recommending resolutions.
• Resource Management: Identifies and manages the right kind of resources to meet schedule and targets.
• Coordination: Coordinates with engineering support staff and engineers to provide assistance to all programs and monitors all vendor visits.
• Lesson Application: Identifies lessons learned from previous projects and applies them in own area of work, ensuring the disciplines concerned also take the lessons into account in doing their work.
• Industry Standards: Keeps abreast of knowledge of industry standards, documents the knowledge on relevant technologies, and assists in advance research.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributes to the continuous improvement of company development work methodology/procedures.
• Safety and Quality Integration: Identifies and integrates Safety, Quality requirements in the Design to ensure safe operability and maintainability.
• Approval Authority: Approval of calculations/RFQ/Technical bid analysis.
• Compliance Assurance: Ensures compliance with Company’s Standards and Procedures with specific attention to change management and deviation approval process.
• Policy Implementation: Must understand company goals and implement management directives and policies.
• Management Support: Supports management/project management in the review, risk assessment, strategies, establishment, management, and close-out of all engineering issues.
• Consistency Assurance: Ensures consistency of engineering design across all disciplines working on the project.
• Problem Anticipation: Independently develops solutions to non-recurring problems by analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating various precedents and data. Anticipates potential problems and takes preventive actions.
• Project Management: Manages schedule & targets of the project as required.
• Design Intent Definition: Defines Design intent. Interfaces with all disciplines to clarify/explain design intent and suggests alternatives when need arises.
• Discipline Guidance: Monitors/Guides all discipline lead engineers assigned to the project.
• Quality and Productivity Oversight: Monitors the quality and productivity of engineering disciplines working on the project.
• Reporting: Produces engineering progress reports and other reports/documents that might be delegated by the Project Manager.
• Performance Assessment: Conducts performance assessments of engineers and Engineering Coordinators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in engineering or Master of Engineering. Alternatively, Diploma holders with strong engineering experience may also be considered.
• Minimum 20 years’ experience in onshore/offshore Oil & Gas FPSO line
• Minimum 1 FPSO experience is necessary.
• Any relevant industrial based certification (i.e. Chartered Engineer, PMP, etc) will be an added advantage.
• Familiar in use of Software, Database systems related to Engineering functions.

1. Ability to communicate with construction sites and commissioning team on technical requirements and manage technical queries and changes.
2. Client management skills.
3. Adequate knowledge of all the interfaces between Topside and Marine Engineering, facilities/systems of FPSO with specific attention to his discipline, and working of all Process, Mechanical, Piping, Structure, Electrical & Telecom, Instrumentation and Marine engineering.
4. Knowledge of sequencing of engineering activities.
5. Capability to review engineering deliverables of various disciplines and knowledge of the types of documents to be generated by each engineering department and the inputs involved.
6. Capable of defining design concepts during initial phase of the project considering HSE, constructability operability and maintainability.
7. Familiarity with standards applicable to engineering disciplines and awareness of class, industry, statutory and regulatory requirements.
8. Ability to organize meetings and liaise with class and client team to resolve issues.
9. Should understand FPSO design from Operability & Maintenance perspective
10. Should possess basic understanding of Field Operating condition (i.e. Pre-salt, H2S, etc.)
11. Must understand and interpret total Project life-cycle cost & benefit, as well as their implications during FEED & EPC phase planning & design.
12. Must possess good communication and leadership skills.
13. Shows evidence of good organization skill

Brunel International S.E.A Pte. Ltd.

UEN No: 199603098R

EA License No: 16S8067

Reza Johannes - R1871121