Lead Engineer-Civil/ Structural - Onshore-AD
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Role Overview
Take technical ownership of civil and structural deliverables across FEED, detailed design, and EPC project phases.
Lead a discipline team and interface with clients, contractors, vendors, construction teams, and multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
Work in the KBR office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, supporting oil and gas projects across the UAE and wider GCC and Middle East region.
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Job Purpose
Take technical ownership of civil and structural deliverables across FEED, detailed design, and EPC project phases.
Lead a discipline team and interface with clients, contractors, vendors, construction teams, and multidisciplinary project stakeholders.
Work in the KBR office in Abu Dhabi, UAE, supporting oil and gas projects across the UAE and wider GCC and Middle East region.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage Civil/Structural engineering activities during FEED, EPC, and detailed engineering phases.
- Prepare and manage discipline execution plans, structural design bases, philosophies, deliverable registers, checking and approval matrices, and work-hour estimates.
- Define analysis approaches, review assumptions, verify results, and approve calculations, reports, specifications, drawings, and technical deliverables.
- Coordinate metocean, geotechnical, weight-control, survey, inspection, fabrication, installation, constructability, operations, and multidisciplinary inputs.
- Lead interdisciplinary, model, constructability, and safety reviews with project stakeholders.
- Manage progress, schedule, budget, manpower forecasts, workshare execution, subcontracted engineering, quality requirements, and change control.
Experience and Qualifications
- Minimum 15 years of oil and gas structural engineering experience, including 5 years in a lead role.
- Experience across FEED, detailed engineering, EPC, PMC, construction support, and brownfield modification phases.
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering.
- A master’s degree in Structural Engineering or a related discipline is advantageous.
Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of UAE regulations, international engineering codes, and oil and gas industry practices.
- Strong onshore oil and gas civil and structural design knowledge, including foundations, drainage, steel and reinforced concrete structures, pipe racks, and equipment supports.
- Proficiency with STAAD Pro, SAP2000, SAFE, Mat3D, and ETABS.
- Technical leadership, engineering assurance, risk identification, quality control, communication, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.
What We Offer
- Professional development and career advancement opportunities.
- Collaborative work environment with a commitment to safety and sustainability.
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