Principal Control Officer at Michael Stevens Consulting

Job Summary

• A leading International Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Company requires for immediate employment suitably a suitably qualified candidate fir the position of Principal Control Engineer.

Job Description

• Promote a Goal Zero Safety and Quality culture, ensuring compliance at the worksite.
• Enforce HSE policies and procedures at company worksites.
• Review and provide input on technical specifications, P&IDs, and other detailed engineering documents for subsea control systems and interfacing systems.
• Respond to subsea control and distribution-related queries and technical clarification requests from contractors.
• Oversee the manufacturing and fabrication of MCS (Master Control System), EPU (Electrical Power Unit), HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), EJB, TUPA, SCMs, and hardware-mounted controls, ensuring compliance with project specifications, procedures, design documentation, and approved Inspection and Test Plans (ITP) through testing.
• Participate in design reviews, technical workshops, HAZID, HAZOP, and other assigned meetings.
• Drive timely, efficient, and safe project execution in alignment with the project schedule.
• Witness fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing activities at the fabrication site to confirm compliance with approved procedures.
• Oversee site activities, including Site Receipt Inspection, Site Integration, Factory Acceptance Test, Extended Factory Acceptance Test, and System Integration Test, ensuring compliance with approved procedures.
• Work with contractors to identify, document, report, and address quality issues.
• Author and deliver daily, weekly, and monthly status, progress, and site reports.
• Oversee material and goods receipt, inspection, verification checks, and reporting.
• Coordinate integration tests across packages and disciplines.
• Review and provide input on assembly and testing procedures, storage, preservation, transportation, installation, and offshore testing.
• Ensure the Materials Record Book, Certificates of Conformance, and technical documentation are available prior to equipment loadout.
• Coordinate logistics at the fabrication site to ensure timely packaging, transportation, and safe load-out of equipment to the vessel.
• Collaborate with the company’s Lifting and Hoisting SME to review lift plans, rigging registers, and support safe lifting operations.
• Supervise offshore installation, testing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning of subsea control systems.
• Liaise with Project Engineers responsible for other project packages to manage interfaces and ensure project compliance.
• Organize and participate in meetings and design reviews with contractor engineers and technicians.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, including Quality, HSE, project control, engineering, planning, Information & Digital Technology, operations, wells, marine, logistics, aviation, subsea intervention, etc., to secure project support.
• Log and track lessons learned during detailed design and manufacturing activities within the package.
• Review operations and maintenance manuals and guidelines issued by contractors.
• Travel to fabrication sites, OEM facilities, and offshore vessels in the Gulf of Guinea as part of service responsibilities.

Requisite Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of work experience, with at least 10 years in designing, installing, or upgrading automation and control systems within the oil and gas industry, with a focus on deepwater projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Subsea Engineering with professional registration.
• Strong understanding and practical application of industry standards and codes, including API 17F/ISO 13628-6, API 17H, API RP 17N, ASME B31.3, ASME IX, and IEC 60287.
• Practical experience with subsea control systems OEMs.
• Experience in developing subsea control specifications and data sheets.
• Ability to communicate, work, and influence effectively within a multi-disciplinary, globally located team.
• Knowledge of personal and process safety.
• Demonstrated project management experience, ideally with relevant certifications.
• Proficiency in MS Office or similar software.