Lead Civil Structural Architectural Engineer / France

A major oil and gas operator who are looking for a Lead Civil Structural Architectural Engineer to work on one of their flagship projects in Paris.

The position will be on a 1 year renewable contract. The schedule will be Mon – Fri. In return the individual will be provided with an attractive rate.
To be considered for this role, candidates must be prepared to work in Paris full time and be open to follow the project to additional locations. 

ACTIVITIES
The job holder’s overall responsibility is:

• Accountable for all matters related to the Civil/ Geotechnical and HVAC engineering, fit for purpose and with full respect to the Statement of Requirement with approved changes.
• Represents the Company technical authority for these disciplines.
• Prepares and suggests technical content of essential studies to initiate EPC contractor action and conformity with state of the art in LNG plant design.
• Supervises all subcontracted studies and provides support to other packages with the support of Head Quarters specialist.
• Ensure Civil/ Geotechnical and HVAC design choices take into account constructability, operability and flexibility of the facilities.
• Proposes recommendations on technical deviation requests and keeps updated the documentation related to the Civil/ Geotechnical and HVAC disciplines.
• Participates to studies required by third parties as required.
• The job holder will be supported by 1 Geotechnical and 1 HVAC Engineers. He is responsible for the Civil/Geotechnical and HVAC Engineering workload, task attribution and priority.
• Communicates and applies the H3SE policies of the COMPANY and ensure the engineering is developed accordingly.
• Ensures the correct implementation of Company rules and specifications (CR’s/ GS’s), Project specifications, relevant international standards and any applicable regulations requirements.
• Leads the review of the CONTRACTOR’ key deliverables such as: Civil/ Geotechnical and HVAC LLI PO review consolidate comments from the other engineering disciplines and operations.
• Provides technical assistance to the project for any technical audits (required by the banks and the insurance companies or Board of Directors, HAZOP, PR…).
• Participate, in coordination, with others to the Inspection and Tests Plans (ITP) and FAT preparation and execution. To attend meetings / FATs with Vendors where necessary.
• Ensure that HVAC Equipment are commissioned and started up as per detailed engineering documentation and accordingly to Vendor recommendations. Provide support and search for Vendor assistance if needed.
• Ensure the quality and completeness of Civil/ Geotechnical and HVAC designs/ packages Final Documentation (deliverables both from the Contractor and the Vendors) in compliance with Project Scope of Work, Specifications and Procedures and allowing an adequate hand-over to the operation.
• Reports potential impact on overall project strategy, planning and target achievement.
• Promotes workshops with the HQ specialist and or contractor’s specialist in order to ensure COMPANY concepts and comments are well understood and quickly integrated in technical documents.
• Guides EPC CONTRACTOR main design selection in a Fit-for-Purpose approach in order to reach an optimized design. Accordingly, he promotes and follow until approval the deviation request to COMPANY requirements in the main time.
• Ensures through efficient review the good respect of the applicable frame of reference.
• Participates actively to proper interface management with Process, Safety, Rotating, Electrical… studies carried out during the EPSCC phase.
• Reviews and comments the key technical documents of the interfacing disciplines such as Process, Safety, Electrical, rotating machines ... as well as project procedures, if required.
• Participates to the Project HAZID, PR.
• Organizes with its counterpart discipline weekly meetings and report highlights to its management with proposed mitigation measures when deemed required.
• Participates to internal engineering weekly meetings.
• Provides its technical inputs to any contractual discussions with EPC Contractor.
• Call for/Participate to interfaces coordination activities and ensure synergies are developed between the different

OTHER OBSERVATIONS

Base location: Paris, then Contractor premises (Paris or UK or Japan), then Oman Worldwide missions to be forecasted due to spread of Contractors’ and main vendors locations. CONTRACTORS

• Participate to Vendors and in particular for LLIs technical evaluation.
• Ensure design validity and coherence with other disciplines and throughout the LNG Facilities.
• Get knowledge of the Omani norms and practices and use it in project when relevant.
• Assist commissioning, start up and Operation team when required. Transfer project knowledge to operations.
• Prepare REX and Lessons Learnt all along the FEED.
• Contribute to personnel skills improvement and encourage knowledge transfer

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Qualification:

• Diploma: Chartered Civil Engineer with proven experience (> 15 years) with large onshore plants and LNG plants detailed design
• Professional experience: several years of proven experience in EPSCC stage of LNG projects,
• Good teamwork, strong minded, previous team Management desirable
• Knowledge of project development in Oman and methods used to submit dossier to state expertise, permitting process, technical approval, Omani norms and standards, are all either an advantage or to progressively acknowledge and incorporate.
• Fluent in English