Interface Manager
About us
Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.
Job purpose
Interface Manager is the role accountable for the overall interface activities in the detail engineering phase at home office as well as execution of the project interface activities at site which combines both technical and coordination aspects. The role holder acts as a principal point of contact who liaises with all internal and external stakeholders for various technical inputs and ensuring coordination among multiple parties / project packages that is required during the project design and execution phase.
The Interface Manager shall lead and oversee all interface management activities, ensuring effective coordination, communication, monitoring, reporting, and control of interfaces among project stakeholders, while providing leadership and supervision to the interface team.
Key accountabilities
Job specific accountabilities
External and internal interfaces
Interface Manager, project interfaces, is responsible for engineering coordination and execution of assigned interface requirements through close interaction with internal and external parties / stakeholders / end users / EPC contractors and will also identify, develop, coordinate, expedite and steward till closure of all project interfaces.
Coordinates and establishes the regular interface meetings between EPC contractor and company.
Leads the discussions and frequent coordination with operations, material handling operations and turnaround team for the execution of the interface activities.
Provides regular coordination on project interfaces to process/commissioning manager and is accountable to provide monthly and weekly reports for progress and proactively identifying interface issues.
Coordinates and participates in various project related interface meetings and activities and ensures the timely completion of the battery limit tie-ins, tie-ins related to scopes.
Technical integration
Focal point and responsible to identify, define and execute the technical / physical internal and external interfaces through EPC phase by establishing interface point registers.
Well monitoring and control of the IP databases, managed for IP’s and IQ’s initiation / correspondence / agreements to align with agreed interdependency schedule between EPC contractor and various stakeholders.
Actively participates in reviewing the project scope of work, various implementing strategies, execution plan, constructing strategies, etc.
Design alignment
Overall responsibility for interface deliverables including but not limited to establishing and executing the interconnections with existing Borouge facilities and participating in interface HAZOP for interface points in addition to other interface drawings and layouts as specified.
Ensures that the HAZOP of battery limit (interface point) is carried out as per the requirements of the project.
Organize interface meetings with internal and external parties for establishing and finalizing of the interface point register for multiple disciplines in a timely manner.
Site coordination
Closely working with FEED/EPC contractor interface team and other stakeholders.
Follow up of the required interface related documentation and feedback FEED/EPC contractor and other stakeholders and sharing with process/commissioning manager. Highlights the shortfalls and seeks support needed from the process/commissioning manager on time in order to avoid schedule delay.
Focal point for identifying with operations, maintenance and integrity team, the key interfaces between project and existing facilities (brownfield works) with particular focus to interface / tie-ins during shutdown period activities.
Focal point for maintaining the database and reviewing all the pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures of the various systems.
Performance
Ensures the pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures are prepared on time and the reviews are done by the company on time.
Productivity: Maintain the interface engineering documents review plan.
Performance assessment: The three above parameters in addition to a set of individual KPIs will be assessed on regular frequency (midterm and final review) by the process/commissioning manager and the outcome shall be fed back to the individual, clearly identifying areas of improvement (as applicable).
Engineering change management
Review of interface discipline specific concession requests issued within the contract; validate the basis of the request and its impact on technical integrity and justification, prior to requesting endorsement from process/commissioning manager.
Monitoring and ensuring that interface discipline specific design change management is being carried out for all respective engineering changes with proper multidiscipline impact assessment and the same is registered and controlled (as and when required).
General
Maintain regular meetings with interface discipline counterpart for timely discipline activity coordination and problem resolution as applicable.
Communicate discipline specific updates / areas of concern on regular basis to the process/commissioning manager.
Address technical conflicts and disputes with counterpart (contractor) in a professional and systematic manner, relevant to governing specifications / codes and actual situation.
Operational plans
Oversee and lead the interface executions and achievement to ensure achieving the desired outputs and performance by the team.
Continuously monitor the pre-commissioning / commissioning schedule of the project and procedures are developed by the EPC contractor and reviewed by company on time.
Focus the development and ensure proper cascade of the status of the schedule to process/commissioning manager in order to avoid any slippage.
Qualifications, experience, knowledge & skills
Minimum qualification
Must be a 4 years bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Fluent in written and spoken English.
Proven skills and experience in brownfield and greenfield projects.
Minimum experience & knowledge & skills
A bachelor’s degree in any relevant engineering or equivalent from an accredited university with minimum twenty (20+) years of relevant experience in the oil & gas or petrochemical industry, including minimum five (5) years (preferred) in GCC region.
Must have at least five (5) years of experience in similar position for international oil & gas or petrochemical projects.
Experience of working with multiple packages for FEED and EPC projects.
5+ years experience in ADNOC project is required.
Offshore and brownfield project experience is mandatory.
Experience in project execution and knowledge of engineering standards is preferred.
Promote team working and productive operating climate with a multicultural, multinational workforce.
Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Moving forward together
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