Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer

Location: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (On-site)

Full-Time - Senior / executive-level.

Posted: 19 October, 2026 | Closing date: 31 October, 2026

About the job

We are hiring a Senior Project Engineer that will actively coordinate and manage the project management team to ensure all projects are successfully organised in line with company standards and expectations.

Main Responsibilities:

• Client relationship management.
  Act as the single point of contact for the client’s project team
  Handle the main communication channel with the client (meeting, documentation follow up)
  Run regular progress meetings with the client (weekly or biweekly) with a set agenda and issue minutes and an action plan tracker.
  Organize client visits to the workshop, inspection witnessing, as appropriate.
  Raise risks, delays, and problems early, before the client finds them, and bring a proposed solution with each one.
  Check client satisfaction at each milestone and close-out eventual point of concerns
• Project Kick off and planning and monitoring. 
  Review the contract, scope of work, specifications, and client requirements, and flag gaps or risks early
  Coordinate Project Execution Plan with Project Engineer and suggest project organization chart adjustment as per project evolution
  Build the work breakdown structure and the baseline schedule
  Set up the budget baseline, cost codes, and cash flow forecast
  Lead the internal and client kick-off meetings
  Set up the risk register and the interface register with the client, subcontractors, and the vessel or marine contractor
  Coordinate personnel forecast for offshore mobilization
  Maintain close communication with offshore supervisor for operations monitoring.
• Engineering and document control
  Act as a technical advisor for project execution offering solutions both internally and to the clients
  Manage the changes happening over the course of the project and document them accordingly
  Manage the cycle of projects update/changes both internally and with the client (shop drawings and IFC drawings from submission through client approval)
  Manage technical queries (TQs), RFIs, and deviation requests to/from client
  Maintain the document register and the transmittal log as required
  Conduct regular checks of consistency of material take-off (MTO) against scopes / approved drawings
  Enforce compliance to standards and requirements in coordination with the support QAQC team.
• Procurement – Logistics
  Track swift material delivery from Procurement team (steel, consumables, bolting, equipment. Review Material reception process compliance as per GEV procedures and execution by the execution team (MTCs, EN 10204 3.1 or 3.2)
  Coordinate with Store & Logistics deliveries execution with adequate arrangement done at client site
  Follow up execution team from subcontractors’ teams;
  Conduct frequent reviews with subcontractors and suppliers as required
• HSE and Quality (QA/QC)
  Ensure that the project HSE plan and site rules are enforced thorough the project
  Participate in in the Risks Assessment update and support HSE team to enforce use of HSE tools (risk assessments, JSAs, and permits to work)
  Participate in the review of the lifting plans and rigging certifications
  Promote QHSE culture through the project
  Ensure swift response from the QAQC to execution teams and client.
• Close-out
  Follow up hand over as-built drawings and the final reports (project report, MRB, …)
  Ensure that demobilization plans are agreed by the client and executed by GEV accordingly
  Monitor documentation exhaustivity for Finance closing of the project
  Hold a lessons-learned review at project closure
• Key attributes
  Good level of Higher education eg. BSc in a related field (or equivalent)
  Knowledge of the principles of project management
  Experience in offshore maintenance
  Ability to organise own workload.
  Work well under pressure and constantly changing environment.
  Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  Substantial experience of managing multiple parallel projects in oil and gas industry
  Excellent understanding of budgeting and securing profitable business
  Excellent communication skills
  Ability to build and develop strong customer relationships.
  High levels of computer literacy
  Flexible and customer orientated approach to work
  Medically fit and certified to work offshore.
  Commitment to Continuous improvement
  Commitment and willing to develop skills in project management.
  Excellent leader and team motivator
  Solutions focussed and results driven
  Good knowledge of the challenges faced in the oil and gas industry
• Desirable attributes
  Professional qualification in project management
  Full driving license

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