Offshore Interface Lead

Baku, Azerbaijan

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reference
Job reference 1272826
location
Location Baku, Azerbaijan
sector
Sector Energy - Oil & Gas
function
Function Engineering & Design
type
Employment type Contract
date
Date published May 7, 2026

Activities

  • To govern offshore interface management for SURF/SPS/ASPL, ensuring packages interface correctly across engineering offices, yards, and offshore spread, in line with IMS governance (New PRODOM).

  • To control offshore battery limits and interface responsibility boundaries in alignment with the Offshore IRM, ensuring clear tie points, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria across phases (INPUT to COM).

  • To define and maintain offshore interface data exchange requirements (soft interfaces) and physical tie-in definitions (hard interfaces), ensuring consistency with the Interface Basis of Design and associated design maturity status

  • To prevent change orders and delays by proactively identifying interface risks, gaps and holds, driving timely closure of interface actions and proposing mitigation/recovery plans.

  •  To coordinate and chair regular offshore interface meetings/workshops with package interface correspondents and contractor Interface Managers, ensuring decisions are logged, tracked and closed.

  • To ensure integrated testing readiness across packages (e.g., interface testing / EFAT / SIT / SAT dependencies) by coordinating test scope, responsibilities, test evidence and punch closure between interfacing parties.

  • To ensure interface documentation quality and timeliness (interface deliverables, procedures, ITR evidence, as-builts) and coordinate with Document Control for traceable records.

  • To coordinate offshore interfaces impacted by subsea layout, tolerances, installation constraints and sequencing, ensuring design changes are controlled and reflected in the IMS baseline.

  • To coordinate interfaces for offshore pipelines, MEG, and FOC systems (offshore portion), including the interface points with onshore/nearshore scope owners and the telecom/ICSS backbone, without duplicating the Telecom/ICSS Interface Lead role.

  • To manage the EPS connection interfaces (optional), ensuring offshore dependencies are captured and coordinated, while Telecom/ICSS integration remains under Telecom/ICSS Interface Lead and topside execution remains under CPF Contractor and CPY Interface Lead; ensure a clear interface between interface leads.

  • To ensure HSSE-by-design principles are embedded into offshore interface resolution (HAZID/HAZOP interface actions, SIMOPS constraints, safe tie-in planning) and escalate any integrity/HSE interface risks.

  • To ensure contractors provide accurate interface progress reporting and to consolidate offshore interface KPIs/status (aging, due/overdue actions, critical interfaces, readiness gates) for Interface Manager and PMT reporting.

  • To ensure that third-party impacts affecting offshore scope (e.g., crossings, external corridors, host facility constraints) are identified early, routed via COMPANY Third Party Interface Lead, and incorporated into offshore plans without direct contractor-to-third-party contact.

  • To capture lessons learned and provide feedback to the Interface Manager and project teams for continuous improvement of interface governance and execution performance.

Accountabilities

  • Shall implement and maintain an effective offshore interface management process aligned with COMPANY governance and the New PRODOM IMS (IR/ITS), ensuring traceability and auditable closeout.
  • Shall ensure offshore battery limits are defined, controlled and consistently applied, with clear physical/functional tie points and agreed acceptance/testing requirements at each boundary.
  • Shall ensure timely resolution of offshore interface issues and escalate unresolved conflicts or schedule threats to the Interface Manager with recommended corrective actions.
  • Shall ensure offshore interface deliverables and records are complete, accurate and issued on time (incl. MoM, decision log, interface deliverables, as-built updates, test evidence).
  • Shall ensure effective coordination of the EPS connection interfaces (if within project allocation), while respecting role boundaries: Telecom/ICSS integration by Telecom/ICSS Interface Lead and topside works by CPF Contractor and CPY Interface Lead; shall ensure structured interface between the interface leads
  • Shall ensure third-party impacts relevant to offshore delivery are managed through the COMPANY Third Party Interface Lead, and that contractors do not engage third parties directly outside approved governance.
  • Shall promote HSSE leadership and ensure interface decisions do not introduce HSE or integrity risks; shall flag and escalate any unsafe or non-compliant interface condition

Qualifications/Experience required

  • Engineering degree (Master’s level or equivalent).
  • 10–15 years’ Oil & Gas project experience with strong multi-discipline background, preferably including offshore/subsea systems and EPC/EPCI execution.
  • Minimum 1–3 years in an interface management / integration role on a multi-package project, with demonstrated battery limit control and interface closure discipline.
  • Strong capability to coordinate contractors and transverse Company functions in a multicultural, multi-site environment; Strong communication and arbitration skills.
  • Fluent English (working level).
  • Regular travel expected (contractor offices, yards, and offshore-related readiness/support as required).

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