Introduction

Facilitate all internal and external interactions and relationships with Stakeholders, Contractors, Regulatory Bodies, Partners, and Third Parties ensuring seamless communication, compliance, and collaboration across project life cycle.
Provide support to Interface Department in interface and alignment of engineering, procurement, fabrication, execution, Installation, quality, integration, and planning activities across multiple Project Management Teams (PMT).
Lead project interface activities to successfully deliver and support planned execution activities in a complex site environment with varying project deadlines.
The prime intention is the establishment of interfaces and controls to ensure that the overall schedule and integrity of the subsea, offshore and onshore facilities/ projects is maintained and that the interfacing parties fully understand their accountabilities and responsibilities.
Handle and facilitate the approval of multiple technical Interface and crossing agreements with internal & external stakeholders.

About this role

Manage, monitor, and coordinate all external and internal technical interface agreements (IA)/Interface Queries (IQs) and ensure that a comprehensive, multi-functional review of all IAs/ IQs/ critical interfaces, responses, to and from the interface parties, meets requirements ahead of schedule.
Assist in providing Commercial group with all information related to the interface agreement needed to develop commercial agreement and Access &Indemnity Agreement.
Maintain the technical interface database and report on the status of the IQs, IA/Crossing actions items, critical interfaces, providing progress updates on IA/ IQ process and communicate these to management as per COMPANY protocol. Ensure that correspondence with internal and external parties in relation to schedule is coordinated and followed-up.
Early identification and establishment of interdependent/multi-discipline interfaces and controls between various concurrent and future projects to ensure that the overall integrity and completion schedule of the facilities/ projects is maintained such that the interfacing parties fully understand their accountabilities and responsibilities and perform to achieve the desired goals and objectives.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders and Contractor. Act as the primary point of contact for all internal/ external communications and interface activities ensuring timely and effective communication with all internal parties/ external parties/ Contractor.
Assist with developing guidelines, processes, and procedures necessary to support and control the Interface Agreement process and projects.
Prepare information on overall IA/ IQ/ critical interface process performance and suggest and implement improvements and ensures that interface agreement process is appropriate, well established and maintained.
Ensures Contractor implement effective IA Management Plan, IA/IQ/ critical interface Registers and updates/maintains the registers as required in areas of work scope.
Facilitates submission, tracking and expediting review/approval of IAs/IQs to OPCO, other Major Projects and third parties.
Facilitates discussions/ agreements between Contractor and PMT/ other stakeholders where interface problems have arisen, works with PMT functional leads to resolve interface issues/comments.
Facilitates review to ensure completeness/ readiness of technical submissions for approval of Interface/Crossing Agreements and close out packages of Interface/Crossing Agreements.
Ensures that all IA’s managed by Contractor are agreed and closed with the demonstration that Contractor’s final documentation reflects the received data and inputs from agreed IAs.
Schedule/ attends regular meetings, issues minutes of meetings, with interfacing organizations to ensure timely communications of issues and minimizes interfacing disconnects and ensures cross-functional follow-up on action items developed during the interface meetings.
Lead and coordinate complex external interfaces including the potential for simultaneous operations (SIMOPS).
Support and monitor status of Contractor Interface Agreement and Interface queries issuance by using TEMPO [Technical Environment for Major Projects Organization] and procedures governing projects and communicating changes to head of Interface to manage with other external parties if needed

Is this you?

Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Minimum 10 years of experience in a major/ capital projects environment, with broad experience of multi-discipline engineering/execution, in the oil and gas industry with 3 years in a supervisory position.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Interface Agreement Management System & procedures.
In depth understanding of the engineering and execution related interdependencies between the interfacing subsea and offshore projects.
Previous experience on similar offshore, subsea and onshore projects which includes extensive interaction with other Capital projects & third parties.
Proven project management and offshore brownfield execution experience.
Requires strong analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities and demonstrate superior organization skills.
Excellent analytical, interpretive and computer skills.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Independent and able to initiate and recommend solutions encompassing various technical specialties.
Independent, able to work under minimum supervisory.
Computer literate, working application of Microsoft Office Suite