Engineering Manager

Manage and supervise yard production engineering activities and fabrication methods according to contract requirements and project objectives.
- Ensure time, cost, quality, safety, and environmental protection objectives are met through the coordination of the projects' engineering and methods team and involved centers.
- Provide methodologies and tools, and manage the availability of qualified personnel, their training, and development. Promote an active interaction with project team key functions.
- Ensure that the fabrication cycle is carried out with full respect to group and project-specific quality and HSE procedures
- Provide support during bid and project start-up phases, supporting the definition of the most appropriate erection and construction sequences
- Define project engineering organizational charts, staffing, and personnel roles with engineering discipline departments and define the list of activities and deliverables, set engineering time schedule, coordinate activities according to contractual requirements
- Ensure effective inter and multidisciplinary coordination controlling proper interfaces between engineering and other project teams, yard members, and external engineering centers
- Ensure development and issuance of shop drawings, fabrication procedures, study and definition of operations for structural components integrity in temporary intermediate conditions like lifting, handling, and subassemblies
- Ensure development and issuance of calculation and procedures for lifting weighing, handling, load-out, and ballasting
- Contribute to the definition of barge selection and guarantee interfaces with certification bodies and port authorities
- Ensure design, if required, of grillage and sea fastening
- Ensure execution of Mechanical Completion activities
- Coordinate all discipline engineering activities (electrical, piping, etc.)
- Coordinate fabrication welding, coating, painting, and insulation engineering activities
- Ensure full comprehension of documentation in order to grant construction effectiveness, complementing activities done by the Engineering department
- Ensure the definition of materials takes off, issuance of purchase requisition and technical bid evaluation for yard-provided items
- Support definition and preparation of the subcontractor scope of work for shop drawings development and issue and for construction, assemblies, and fabrications activities
- Manage the site queries including material substitution, if necessary, revert to the Clent's and Head Office's Engineering departments when needed to secure the technical answers
- Ensure the interface with both the Client's and Head Office's Engineering departments
- Participate in risk management for the engineering concerns
- Provide technical support to Yard Project Coordinators for variations requests and change orders
- Track revision of drawings indicating reasons for modifications and supporting Yard - Project Coordinators in the elaboration of claims
- Contribute to Project reports for the engineering part (activities, quantities, budget, areas of concern) and to Project plan definition by providing engineering milestones and requirements (weekly progress)
- Supervise initiation and maintenance of project files and preparation of the engineering final dossier
- Issue yard welding procedures qualification and specifications, ensuring proper execution
- A background in Petrochemicals / Oil & Gas / Fabrication with a minimum of 10 years with a degree in Engineering.
- Experience as a Manager is a must.
- Advanced skills with Excel.