Senior Construction Supervisor

Working location

Qatar

Contract type

Contract position

Key responsibilities

• Ensure contractor executes topsides, jackets, and bridges fabrication, offshore installation, hook-up, and mechanical completion in accordance with project requirements.
• Break down scope into work-packs and job cards to identify equipment, manpower, material, and schedule for completion.
• Review and approve contractor's construction deliverables including drawings, procedures, method statements, work-packs, job cards, lifting plans, and schedules.
• Monitor, control, and report on contractor's performance, manpower deployment, equipment movements, and construction progress.
• Conduct daily and weekly meetings with contractors, discipline supervisors, QA/QC inspectors, and HSE advisors to address and resolve issues.
• Act as construction risk management representative, identifying risk events, proposing mitigation measures, and ensuring their implementation on site.
• Review and forward construction progress reports and verify contractor's progress statements for accuracy.
• Liaise with senior discipline engineers throughout all project phases for construction-related matters, including during engineering and procurement stages.
• Ensure all construction works are completed in accordance with approved standards and contract specifications.
• Coordinate MCC walk-through, pre-commissioning, and commissioning activities with contractors, vendors, and end users.
• Maintain daily records of progress, noting special comments and reporting anomalies or contractual deviations, recommending corrective actions.
• Monitor and control work permits to ensure contractor compliance with permit conditions.
• Coordinate mobilization and demobilization of contractors, sub-contractors, and vendors to offshore sites following contract award.
• Initiate decisions on project issues within the framework of contract documents and procedures, in coordination with the project team.
• Take responsibility for all matters outside of normal working hours during construction phases.
• Efficiently manage site construction activities leading to construction and pre-commissioning in accordance with policies and procedures.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or HND in Mechanical, Mechatronics, or Petroleum Engineering from a recognized university, or a diploma in these fields with extensive hands-on experience in piping fabrication, erection, sub-system and system completion, line walk, hydrotest, leak test, and preservation in fabrication yards and offshore hook-up of major topsides, process and utility platforms, and bridges.
• Minimum 10-12 years' experience in construction and installation activities in oil & gas industry projects.
• Strong experience in fabrication, erection, testing, and hook-up of piping for major greenfield topsides, jackets, and bridges.
• Good knowledge of piping spool fabrication and installation, piping and equipment line walk, punch list close-out, subsystem and system mechanical completion.
• Understanding of construction techniques in piping and equipment installation on various types of process and utility platforms and well head jackets.
• Experience with permits to work, including isolation and lock out/tag out of live services.
• Experience with tie-in to live facilities, including testing and integration to existing systems.
• Computer literate with good communication and writing skills.
• Excellent knowledge of industry engineering standards, quality control, safety, and environmental awareness.
• Ability to interpret and review method statements, lifting plans, inspection and test plans, construction schedules, and drawings.
• Ability to identify potential bottlenecks/problems and suggest solutions.
• Ability to supervise, cooperate, and coordinate with a multi-national and multi-cultural contractor workforce.