Lead Flow Assurance & Process Aberdeen 2023

At TechnipFMC we empower, train and equip our employees with the tools to solve challenges and express their creativity. We are looking for a Lead Flow Assurance & Process who can join our diverse team in Aberdeen, UK.

TechnipFMC is a global leader in the energy industry, specialized in subsea and surface technologies integrated projects, products, and services. Our mission and vision: to enhance the performance and drive real change in the traditional and new energy industry. How we do it: by constantly challenging conventions, tackling some of the most complex technical and engineering challenges and investing in our 20,000+ employees worldwide.

If contributing to breakthrough projects in a truly global playground inspires you, this might be the opportunity for you.

The role

Main responsibilities and accountabilities

• Resource Planning & Allocation: Monitoring of workload projection the team and ensuring that resources are planned, prioritised and allocated to deliver within timeline and as per quality expectation. Support activities can span from pre-FEED, FEED, tender and execution. This will involve review of resource management tool and ensuring timely review of MPF. When necessary, it may be needed to grow the team capacity, either through hiring of permanent or temporary staff, interface with peers in the group for temporaty support, or look for external consultant help.
• People & Competency Maintenance / Development: Have a clear mapping of necessary technical and behavioural competencies within the team, to identify potential gaps and opportunities to grow individuals. Create clear development path plans, which teams members (graduates and more senior engineer) can refer to develop their own career. Develop a pro-active culture, whereby team members look beyond what they are being asked to deliver and feel empowered to provide suggestion and constructive feedback on best way to deliver a support scope (including challenging the unecessary). Ensure that the team has access and is pro-efficient with the necessary software & tools to understake the work.
• Quality & Technical Assurance: Develop the process and behaviour to support a strong technical assurance culture. This will involve close working with the technical assurance team to ensure that team members are accustomed to pro-active contribution to design review. Part of the key behaviour will be to keep an inquisitive mind, challenge requested course of action when better approach can be proposed and very clearly voice risk and concern when necessary.
• Extended Competencies / Continous Improvement: Promote team culture to seek understanding of the drivers influencing the wider system solution and how flow assurance and process interacts with other parts of such system. Seek means/tools to enhance the team’s ability to focus on the more adding value activities. Promote a solution finding culture in the team. Indentify and take forward internal initiatives to enhance team performance or possible solution offering.
• Relationship Building: Establish strong relationship with the different product lines / COE disciplines, with the view to facilitate together the above buletted objectives, find opportunities for individual developments but also communicate on methodologies / technology development priorities for PDM or NPD budgets in the product lines. Establish strong relationships within the wider industry with the view to strengthen personal and company reputation locally.

You are meant for this job if...

Recommended formal education:

• Degree qualified, ideally BEng or Meng with a good track record of engineering delivery.
• Ideally have achieved chartered engineer status.

Required experience:

• Experience in upstream oil and gas projects
• Preferably prior experience in field development / conceptual / front end subsea engineering.
• Used to working in a multi-disciplinary environment, including working closely with process, pipeline and subsea engineers.
• Good spoken and written English with experience in compiling technical reports
• Good listener, at ease in front of clients, with good presentation skills
• Problem solving experience to be highlighted
• Preferred experience in multi-stake holder interaction

Required interpersonal skills*:

• Level skilled

* This is a broad category of "people skills" and includes ability to to build and maintain relationships and use diplomacy. Demonstrate open and collaborative approach to the sharing of knowledge and information. Exhibits good listening and comprehension. Effectively conveys messages, ideas and concepts to both internal and external customers. It also includes the ability to give and receive constructive criticism, be tolerant and respectful regarding the opinions of others, and empathize with them. Of all the soft skills this is among the most important because it is central to building project teams with a strong foundation of trust and accountability.

Required technical skills and/or problem-solving skills:

• Ability to understand the wide-ranging implications between a range of technical challenges.
• Problem-solving skills. Ability to lead brain-storming exercise and consolidate findings in a logical roadmap.
• Understanding of reservoir engineering and chemical philosophy/strategies
• Knowledge of topside processing and technologies
• Appreciation for field development drivers and high level economics
• Knowledge of flow assurance and fluid analysis applications such as OLGA, PIPESIM, PIPEFLO, PVTsim and HYSYS etc.

Required managerial skills

• Technical management skills
• Ability to coordinate multi-skilled exercises
• Ability to prepare and present a comprehensive business case

TechnipFMC promotes inclusion and diversity, guaranteeing equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability or any other plurality.