Role Purpose
Lead the FPSO onshore construction and offshore execution scope, covering fabrication, integration, sail-away, offshore installation, hook-up, and pre-commissioning support. Accountable for constructability, construction readiness, execution performance at site, and offshore hook-up delivery, ensuring the asset is completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in full compliance with Class, Flag, regulatory, and Company requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Onshore Construction
- Lead hull and topsides construction, conversion, or refurbishment activities at the yard, including structural steel works, marine and hull systems, piping, E&I, module fabrication, lifting operations, and integration activities.
- Drive constructability reviews and provide design-for-construction input throughout FEED and detailed engineering phases to minimize rework and mitigate schedule risks.
- Monitor contractor progress, manpower allocation, productivity, subcontractor performance, and schedule float, identifying deviations and implementing corrective action plans as required.
- Oversee mechanical completion, punch-list management, system handover, and pre-commissioning readiness prior to sail-away.
Offshore Installation & Hook-Up
- Plan, coordinate, and lead offshore installation activities, including mooring hook-up, riser and umbilical pull-in, tie-ins, hook-up, and commissioning support scopes.
- Review and approve marine warranty, tow-out, station-keeping, lifting, and SIMOPS procedures, ensuring offshore construction readiness as well as POB and logistics planning.
- Lead the offshore construction team and manage interfaces with marine spread resources, installation contractors, and vessel management teams.
Interface Management
- Manage all construction-related interfaces across hull, topsides, mooring, SURF, drilling/subsea, operations, and third-party vendors.
- Maintain the interface register, chair interface meetings, and ensure interface queries are resolved in line with agreed project milestones.
Contract Management & Administration
- Administer EPC/EPCI and fabrication contracts, including scope control, milestone certification, variation orders, back-charges, claims defense, and contract close-out activities.
- Support tendering processes, technical bid evaluations, and contracting strategies for construction and offshore installation packages.
HSE & Quality
- Promote and sustain a visible safety culture across both yard and offshore locations, ensuring compliance with Company HSE policies, permit-to-work systems, and lifting and marine operations standards.
- Ensure compliance with Class, Flag State, and Coastal State requirements, maintaining full traceability of QA/QC records and completions documentation.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, preferably in Naval Architecture or Structural Engineering.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, including significant time in senior construction leadership positions.
- Expert-level knowledge of FPSO design, engineering, construction, offshore installation, and hook-up activities.
- Proven experience delivering FPSO projects involving new-build, conversion, and redeployment scopes.
- Expert-level knowledge and hands-on experience with hull structures and marine systems.
- Demonstrated success in interface management within multi-contractor and multi-package project environments.
- Strong contract management and administration skills, including claims management, variations, and contractor performance oversight.
- Project execution experience across multiple geographical locations and fabrication yards.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, complemented by strong reporting and presentation skills.
- Proven ability to perform effectively within multi-location, multinational, and multicultural project environments.
- Valid offshore medical certification, BOSIET/HUET training, and availability to travel internationally (or ability to obtain).
Preferred
- Expert-level knowledge of mooring systems, including spread, turret, internal/external, and disconnectable configurations, as well as mooring installation and hook-up activities.
- Experience working with major Asian and Middle Eastern conversion/fabrication yards, together with international MWS and Class regimes.
- Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional registration.
Core Competencies
Leadership under pressure • Safety leadership • Schedule and cost discipline • Decision-making with incomplete information • Contractor and stakeholder influence • Clear escalation and reporting • Team development and mentoring
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