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Senior Project Engineer

CR/079218
  • Competitive
  • Qatar, Doha
  • Contract
Job Objectives
  • Manage the coordination of Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and support to Pre-commissioning and Commissioning activities.
  • Ensure cross-team integration across multiple EPC contracts and internal functions.
  • Provide execution support to Division and Project Managers while managing reporting and stakeholder interfaces.
  • Oversee compliance with Project Management System requirements and Operations Readiness Plans.
  • Support change and risk management processes and ensure timely completion of critical project activities.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
  1. Provide leadership in project safety management and ensure compliance with company SHES, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.
  2. Lead coordination across project functions, sub-project teams, and pooled resources to maintain team alignment and communication.
  3. Monitor and manage interface agreements, intervening in underperforming areas to avoid execution delays.
  4. Develop project reports, presentations, and stakeholder updates in collaboration with functional managers.
  5. Track and monitor project KPIs, exception reports, and action registers to identify and resolve critical issues.
  6. Ensure compliance with the Project Management System by coordinating deliverables, scheduling Gate Reviews, and tracking findings to closure.
  7. Oversee Operations Readiness Plan activities, ensuring deliverables are assigned and completed.
  8. Support change management by reviewing and analyzing change orders.
  9. Contribute to risk management through identification, mitigation planning, and monitoring of project risks and trends.
  10. Actively participate in all execution phases—design, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up—to ensure flawless handover to operations.
Requirements Education
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Sciences.
Experience
  • Minimum of 6 years’ experience in project functions such as Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Procurement in the Oil & Gas industry.
  • Proven experience managing EPC project activities including Pre-commissioning and Commissioning.
  • Exposure to large-scale, fast-track greenfield and brownfield projects with multiple EPC contracts.
  • Experience working in multicultural environments; prior Middle East/Qatar experience preferred but not required.
Skills
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
  • Effective communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management abilities.
  • Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and familiar with Project Management Systems.


Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.

Alecz Palas Senior Recruitment Consultant

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