Job Purpose

•   Responsible for managing the interfaces for Major Project embracing the Major Project’s overall objectives and strategies, providing overall guidance and leadership with respect to the technical and physical interfaces between Project and various other Major Project on-going Projects or 3rd parties through management of the Interface Agreement (IA) process.

Key Job Accountabilities

•   Manage all technical interface agreements (IA) and ensure a comprehensive, multi-functional review of all requests, responses is maintained meeting requirements and schedule.

•   Assess information on overall IA process performance and implement improvements ensuring that the process is appropriate, well established and maintained. Manage guidelines and procedures necessary to support and control the IA process within Major Project Compression organization.

•   Plan work based on identified interfaces designed to support the department objectives and ensure project department/group knowledge of the interface agreement process.

•   Counsel on construction interface considerations and potential problems, identifying solutions to ensure efficient operations.

•   Manage the organization and systems that ensure execution issues involving third parties (e.g. beyond client and contractors) are resolved compatible with Major Project objectives.

•   Work closely with external organisations such as QP, RLIC, AKG, Barzan, Kahramaa and all other emerging projects to achieve project objectives.

•   Assure detailed records are established and maintained which document agreements and commitments between the interface organisations.

•   Develop solid working relationships with key stakeholders to establish an environment whereby incumbent can influence decision making advocating project requirements.

•   Provide clear, accurate, timely and concise two-way communication with other organisations in respect to the exchange and alignment of interface information.

•   Expedite functional reviews of agreements and amendments by appropriate client groups and management levels to enable requisite Steering Committee/Board approvals and execution, supporting development of Major Project requirements for Joint Facility Owners' positions on common facilities-related matters such as capacity buy-ins, agreement amendments and budget development, oversight and stewardship.

Skills

-Minimum Requirements-

Qualifications

•   Bachelor Degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent

Knowledge and Key Skills

•   Ten (10) years’ experience in the oil and gas industry with knowledge of major project environment. Previous oil and gas industry experience as Interface or Project Engineer, with exposure to negotiations and developing commercial agreements related to the development and operation of large scale projects (both greenfield and brownfield) involving interactions with government agencies and joint facility/venture international oil company representatives.