Job Title: Principal Operations Engineer

Company Name: QFAB

Work Location: Ras Laffan, Qatar

** PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO QATARI CANDIDATES **

Reports to:

Functionally reports to: Production Engineering Manager.

On Project reports to: Senior Production Engineer or Fabrication Operations Engineer.

Primary Functions:

• Responsible for the overall project inter-discipline coordination between members of the operations support groups, throughout one or more project phases of detail design, fabrication, offshore installation and hook-up.
• Responsible for planning of daily operations (project activities) to meet overall project completion productively.
• Ensures alignment of fabrication personnel towards planned daily operations (project activities) to meet overall project completion productively.
• Supervises discipline Production engineers.
• Identifies production engineer resource needs for the project and communicate these regularly to production engineering manager.
• Review weekly progress & productivity and provide feedback on factors affecting project performance.
• Understands the full contractual scope of work, contract type and milestone schedules.
• Leads constructability reviews and ensure work execution plan is based on the most productive option.
• Conducts fabrication look ahead meetings and prioritizes material and drawings to suit.
• Responsible for documenting all scope of work changes and coordinating AFC estimate updates.
• Responsible for initiating and approving all variance and change orders.
• Solves technical problems and initiates site queries to ensure work disruption is minimized and productivity is optimized
• Lead by example in following the company safety policies.
• Chairs the weekly project production meeting.

Chairs the fabrication look ahead and forecasting requirements of engineering & material deliverables to meet the project schedule.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Manages any scope of work changes and ensures AFC estimate is up to date.
• Understands the scope of work, schedules, specifications and prepare project specific task listing.
• At commencement of the project, develops fabrication execution plans satisfying the project requirements in the most productive manner.
• and project kick off meetings.
• Appraises fabrication management of any project issues which effect the forecasted progress, productivity and schedule commitments.
• Directs work pack issuance strategy and sets priorities and deliverable dates for the discipline teams.
• Reviews engineering input dates providing required on site dates suiting fabrication sequence.
• Reviews material expediting reports and advises Procurement personnel of material priorities, any concerns and mitigation plans as necessary.
• Solves project specific construction problems with the assistance of construction manager where required.
• Authorizes site queries/correspondence to be issued to the client.
• Interfaces with other key project personnel such as project cost engineers, marine operations engineers, Quality manager.
• Co-ordinates to compile project fabrication lessons learnt.
• Identifies project risks and opportunities.
• Establishes a productive working relationship with client representatives.
• Leads Fabrication proposal efforts on bids as per company procedures.

Other Expectations:

• Participates in QHSES initiatives and drives achieving objectives. Follows the company policies.

Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, Metallurgical, Structural Engineering or equivalent

Experience:

• 9+ years in Offshore and Petrochemical Industry or Equivalent.

Additional:

• Preferable worked as Senior Production Engineer in executing fabrication projects and having multi discipline knowledge.