Project Technical Manager

Job Details

Our Oilfield Services client is currently looking for a Project Technical Manager to start work in their Kingston Office.

Ideally the successful candidate will have some experience working in a busy office environment in a manufacturing or similar environment, and would need to be a confident team player, with the ability to attend and chair vendor meetings following training.

Responsibilities

• Define project engineering organisation charts, staffing the roles with engineering Head of Department
• Ensure review of contractual documents engineering related interfacing with other project function
• Ensure correct consideration and application of technological requirements in all project phases up to the handing over of the plant to the Client
• Ensure skills, know-how and methods for the relevant technologies are developed and available and that an appropriate plan for training is in place
• Participate in defining the overall project planning and scheduling, directly supervising the finalization of engineering plans and schedule, including the architecture of detail engineering outsourcing
• Promote and participate to the induction of the engineering team to contract/project requirements
• Participate to Risk management and other interfunctional reviews for the engineering concerns
• Coordinate execution of multidisciplinary engineering activities, and manage activities assigned to external Engineering Centres and/or other Engineering Companies involved in the project
• Ensure effective interdisciplinary coordination verifying adequacy and consistency of design solutions
• Take necessary technical decisions in case of unresolved conflicts between disciplines, ensuring that the engineering team properly interfaces with other project team members
• Ensure that adopted technical solutions are in line with project cost and time schedule objectives, taking appropriate action to avoid, absorb or minimize deviations
• Supervise issue of engineering deliverables approving key multidisciplinary documents of own competence
• Support Project Manager in relations with Client and/or Licensors regarding process and specialist engineering problems
• Promote and attends to design, safety, 3D model reviews supervising the follow-up of the outcomes
• Participate to contract management giving technical support to PM for variations requests and change orders
• Consolidate engineering hours and material budgets based on discipline departments budgets and control it during the course of the project alerting Project Management in case of variation and suggest mitigation measures
• Ensure freezing of project engineering documents and engineering close out in accordance with project schedule
• Ensure carrying out of all engineering activities that support material/construction procurement process services
• Ensure availability of Commissioning/Start-up Plans with the Operating Manuals and Mechanical Manuals
• Ensure that lessons learned for engineering are clearly identified, granting the monitoring of plant performances to capitalize experiences identifying area of improvement in close coordination with the relevant product line central functions