Principal Accountabilities
- Lead the Construction team to support the objectives and strategies
- Champion safety in all construction aspects and promote the safety objective that “Nobody gets Hurt”
- Manage the On Island Construction teams responsible for the planning, development and operations to ensure construction execution certainty
- Manage the Contractor’s construction planning and execution efforts to ensure compliance with Project objectives, strategies, obligations and requirements
- Establish a construction organization to implement the Project execution plans and procedures and coordinate resourcing of construction team positions
- Provide construction and execution strategy support to the Project Team through construction oversight and assistance
- Ensure that the Contractor and Subcontractors are compliant with project safety expectations, policies and procedures
- Steward the development of an Integrated Safety Plan for construction, including SIMOPS for all island and brownfield work
- Assist in the review and implementation of all Contractor safety plans
- Steward interfaces and interactions between the Contractor and other UZ Projects, Production Operations, and Drilling
- Manage the interface with ADNOC Offshore OPCO to execute brownfield works in order to minimize disruption in ongoing production operations
- Ensure that the detailed design deliverables support constructability
- Report construction progress, performance, initiatives and issues to the Project Team
- Lead construction planning teams to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities
- Sponsor construction related readiness reviews, constructability workshops and CERs
- Take a leadership role in mentoring and training UAE Nationals in construction management
- Clearly communicate to direct reports short term and long-term goals that support the project objectives
- Encourage and recognize outstanding performance, and ensure that staff are appraised regularly and developed accordingly
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent level of site experience in a senior role
- Professional Engineer accreditation preferred
- Minimum of twenty (20) years of previous Construction management experience on large oil and gas development projects
- Excellent leadership and communication skills (written and verbal) and an ability to work with people across a diversity of cultures