Senior Engineer, Pipeline

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Job purpose

Provide engineering support and technical expertise to operating plants and pipeline, major projects and technical projects related to piping discipline through all phases of projects and ensure the reliability, availability, and maintainability of piping systems.

Key accountabilities

Engineering & technical support

Provide technical support and services in the area of piping engineering to sites and projects group through RTS (Request for Technical Services).

Develop and write the statement of requirements (SOR) for new projects and ensure its coordination with operators and sponsors. Develop and elaborate the scope of work (SOW) for consultants.

Design in-house engineered works including drawings, specifications, data sheets and bills of quantities as required and ensure that state-of-the-art technology is applied in the selection of piping materials and piping systems.

Review and prepare piping design basis, plot plans, piping layouts, isometric drawings, and carry out stress analysis and material selection as required and ensure sound design and integrity of piping systems.

Participate in HAZOP. Ensure cost-effective solutions and application of value added engineering throughout the duration of projects.

Provide technical expertise support to project management activities through all phases of projects, engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning and hand-over of project facilities to end users.

Assessment of design deviation and concession request authorization (DCA) critical to HSE, integrity and production and contractor trend notice (CTN).

Technical studies

Perform technical studies in-house or manage technical studies through engineering consultants and provide technical reports with appropriate recommendations in line with the scope of RTS for piping engineering.

Review and approve drawings, specifications, data sheets and other technical documents related to piping engineering for all types of projects.

Ensure that the consultants and engineering contractors designs are in accordance with the scope of work and facilities delivered to end-users are safe, reliable, operable and maintainable.

Design general specifications

Update and develop company's DGS (Design General Specifications), in order to take account of lessons learnt from projects, current practices, latest technology and changes in international codes and standards.

Develop and issue company design general specifications (DGS), standards, procedures and guidelines related to piping engineering for use in-house or by the contractors with regard to projects undertaken.

Ensure company design general specifications and standards are updated, developed, maintained and implemented on all phases of projects being executed by the projects group, in line with ADNOC guidelines and industry best practice.

Root cause analysis

Participate in RCA (root cause analysis) related to piping systems failure, troubleshoot chronic plant problems and recommend solutions.

Ensure that the repetitive failure of piping systems is eliminated or mitigated and that proposed solutions are designed to safeguard company's plant asset safety, integrity, maintainability and continuous operability.

Pre-qualification of suppliers, manufacturers & consultants

Participate in the review and endorsement in order to prequalify suppliers, vendors, manufacturers, consultants in the area of piping.

Ensure that suppliers, vendors, manufacturers, consultants under consideration are qualified and competent to supply goods and provide services to company.

Supervision

Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.

Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective functional objectives.

Budgets

Provide input for preparation of the functional budgets and assist in the implementation of the approved budget and work plans to deliver functional objectives.

Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Policies, systems, processes & procedures

Implement approved section, team, department policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the work programs in line with company and international standards.

Performance management

Contribute to the achievement of the approved performance objectives for the function in line with the company performance framework.

Innovation and continuous improvement

Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.

Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best industry standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

Health, safety, environment (HSE) and sustainability

Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures and controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC code of practices.

Reports

Provide inputs to prepare MIS and progress reports for company management.

Qualifications, experience, knowledge & skills

Minimum qualification

Bachelor degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent professional qualification.

Minimum experience & knowledge & skills

8 years of experience

Company Industry: Construction

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