Surf Umbilical Project Engineer at IOTA Group - Nigeria

Key Activities and Responsibilities

Pre-Award Technical and Contract Support:

• Lead and coordinate technical clarifications and support contractual negotiations with tenderers, with input from corporate specialists, to support timely placement of the purchase order and compliance with local approval requirements.
• Monitor and manage all tenderers’ technical queries, qualifications, and COMPANY responses to ensure complete and timely closure.
• Ensure the technical design dossier and contract scope of work are fully understood, technically robust, and executable by the selected bidder.
• Ensure agreed interface requirements related to the umbilical scope are identified and properly addressed during the tendering and award process.
• Support reporting, technical meetings, bidder interactions, and follow-up of technical actions, including close-out of key review items where applicable.
• Coordinate fabrication site visits and audits as required and prepare the technical evaluation report for there commended bidder with appropriate justification for internal and local authority review.

Post-Award Umbilical Delivery and Technical Assurance:

• Ensure the umbilical Work scope is delivered in compliance with project technical requirements, contractual obligations, quality standards, and approved schedule.
• Monitor and manage engineering development, including technical changes, deviations, and derogations, to maintain compliance and fitness for purpose.
• Review engineering, qualification, and procurement documentation and ensure the required level of priority and technical attention is applied throughout execution.
• Ensure engineering, qualification, and procurement activities are performed in line with contract requirements, project specifications, and company standards within the project schedule.
• Ensure engineering maturity is sufficient before qualification, procurement, manufacturing, and fabrication activities commence, and that design outcomes are carried through into installation and pre-commissioning.
• Support manufacturing, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning activities and lead resolution of technical issues when required.

Interface and Contractor Coordination:

• Evaluate and coordinate responses to contractor technical queries and correspondence in a timely and consistent manner.
• Coordinate and consolidate technical feedback from the project team, corporate specialists, and relevant stakeholders to support decision-making and execution.
• Ensure interface requirements are identified, tracked, and resolved in coordination with the Package Interface Engineer and other interfacing parties.
• Provide day-to-day liaison and coordination across the package technical team throughout all executionphases.

Quality, Fabrication, and Execution Support:

• Coordinate with the QA/QC team to ensure appropriate supervision of umbilical fabrication activities at the contractor’s fabrication site.
• Identify schedule-critical and quality-critical activities and ensure adequate QA/QC coverage is in place for critical equipment and milestones.
• Ensure inspection and test plans for critical manufacturing and fabrication activities are reviewed in a timely manner and receive the appropriate level of attention from all relevant parties.

Change, Commercial, and Compliance Support:

• Consolidate, assess, and document technical, schedule, and commercial changes in accordance with company change management processes, and advise the Package Manager on related impacts.
• Provide contractual and commercial support to the Package Manager, including review of contractor positions, estimates, SMRs, variations, and claims documentation.
• Monitor compliance with Nigerian Content requirements applicable to the SURF package, including reporting obligations, stakeholder coordination, and consolidation of performance data.

Accountabilities:

• Umbilical Scope Delivery: Deliver the umbilical work scope in line with project technical requirements, contract obligations, quality expectations, and the approved schedule
• Engineering and Technical Assurance: Ensure all engineering, qualification, procurement, manufacturing, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning activities are technically sound, compliant, and fit for purpose.
• Interface Management: Identify, coordinate, and resolve all interfaces between the umbilical work scope and other project packages, disciplines, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Quality and Fabrication Oversight: Ensure critical manufacturing and fabrication activities are properly monitored, QA/QC requirements are applied, and quality risks are addressed in a timely manner.
• Quality and Fabrication Oversight: Ensure critical manufacturing and fabrication activities are properly monitored, QA/QC requirements are applied, and quality risks are addressed in a timely manner.
• Contractor Performance and Technical Risk Management: Monitor contractor performance, managing technical queries, deviations, and changes, and escalating risks that could impact cost, schedule, quality, or operability.

Qualifications

• SURF / Umbilical Engineering Expertise _ level 3
• Project Engineering & EPC Delivery Experience _ level 4
• Interface Management _ level 3
• Contractor / Vendor Coordination and Technical Negotiation _ level 4
• (Degree of mastery: 1: weak - 2: medium - 3: good - 4: excellent)
• Professional Experience (number of years) : 10.