Package Manager (LLI)
Position Overview
This opportunity is for a Package Manager (LLI) to support the delivery of long lead item procurement packages on a major FPSO project. The Package Manager (LLI) will play a key role in managing package execution across engineering, manufacturing, inspection, logistics, delivery, and close-out activities. This position offers exposure to complex offshore project work with broad stakeholder interaction and significant impact on project schedule, quality, and delivery outcomes. The Package Manager (LLI) is well suited to candidates with strong package management, vendor coordination, and offshore project execution experience.
Role Context
This role sits within the oil and gas sector and supports the engineering and delivery of floating offshore facilities. The Package Manager (LLI) will work within a major FPSO project environment involving multidisciplinary coordination across procurement, engineering, construction, quality, logistics, commissioning, and related project functions. The position operates in a technically demanding setting with multiple interfaces across vendors, fabrication locations, and project stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage assigned long lead item packages across the full lifecycle, from quotation and evaluation through award, manufacturing, inspection, shipment, delivery, and close-out.
- Act as the main point of contact for assigned vendors after purchase order award and maintain clear communication throughout package execution.
- Track package progress across engineering deliverables, procurement activities, manufacturing, testing, shipment, delivery, and final documentation.
- Coordinate with procurement, engineering, project controls, construction, quality, logistics, and commissioning teams to support timely package delivery.
- Monitor package risks, delays, and performance issues, supporting mitigation and recovery actions where required.
- Ensure delivered equipment and documentation meet technical, quality, inspection, testing, and project requirements.
- Lead or attend vendor meetings, progress reviews, and issue resolution discussions to support package performance and delivery.
- Report progress against delivery dates and highlight deviations or impacts affecting the wider FPSO project schedule.
Qualifications & Experience
- Essential: Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Management, or a related discipline.
- Essential: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in procurement, package management, subcontracting, expediting, logistics, or supply chain management within the oil and gas, offshore, marine, or energy industry.
- Essential: Minimum 5 years of experience in EPC or EPCIC project execution, preferably involving FPSO, offshore facilities, marine systems, topside modules, or similar large-scale capital projects.
- Essential: Proven experience managing long lead item or critical equipment packages, including vendor coordination, schedule tracking, documentation control, inspection, testing, logistics, delivery, and close-out.
- Essential: Strong understanding of procurement, expediting, vendor management, logistics, and package delivery for major offshore or FPSO projects.
- Essential: Good understanding of FPSO project execution, including engineering deliverables, fabrication requirements, vendor documentation, inspection and test plans, integration, commissioning, and operations readiness interfaces.
- Essential: Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, decision-making, communication, and commercial awareness.
- Desirable: Professional certification in procurement, supply chain, project management, or contract management.
About the Company
This company operates within the oil and gas sector and is involved in the engineering and delivery of floating offshore facilities. The company offers exposure to technically complex project work requiring strong engineering leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, and a focus on robust design execution.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of each client. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift’s geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry, and the level of experience, exposure and expertise within the organisation is unparalleled. If this opportunity is of interest, please apply now.