Job description

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.

The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey. 

We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.
 

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?
 

JOB TITLE: Principal Engineer - Proposals
 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
 
 

• Lead or be part of a team of Engineers responsible to prepare most competitive Techno-Commercial proposal in compliance with the client’s requirements and technical specifications including assessment of risk. Support in the preparation of cost estimates.

  
  

• Primary Duties

  
  

• Prepare the proposal summary for the review of the supervisor including initial assessment of the technical, financial, schedule or any other unusual risks associated with a proposal and submit it to the management for thebid/no-bid decision.

  
  

• Prepare and periodically monitor the proposal schedule and indicate slippages to theSupervisor

  
  

• PrepareTableofContents/IndextoTechnical,Un-pricedandPricedCommercialProposalswith responsibilities and dates clearly identified.

  
  

• Prepare scope and effort matrices when working with a JV partner or a nominated subcontractor and perform the required integration of inputs for submission to client.

  
  

• Identify critical un-priced commercial enclosures such as Bank Guarantees, Parent Company Guarantees, Power of Attorneys, Notarization, Local registration requirements etc. at the beginning and initiate actions with other departments to obtain these documents.

  
  

• Conduct periodic review meetings with proposal team, monitor progress, resolve constraints and ensure that all timelines are met. Identify any clarifications or exceptions to the client’s inquiry and ensure smooth flow of inter-disciplinary inputs and generation of all deliverables through periodic discussions with discipline engineers.

  
  

• Coordinate with procurement department to obtain vendor offers and responses for techno-commercial and scope clarifications raised and to identify target vendors for key equipment/ packages for further negotiations and strategic pre-bid understanding.

  
  

• Coordinate with subcontract department, monitor timely receipt of discipline BOQ’s and ensure issue of subcontract packages with project specific responsibility matrices, preambles etc. to subcontractors.

  
  

• Prepare cost estimates and ensure that all the cost elements e.g. subcontract offer, materials estimates from disciplines, project support, third party services etc. have been captured in the proposal.

  
  

• Prepare price break down schedules in compliance to tender requirements and link the cost estimates in a manner that allows expeditious compilation of final commercial proposal.

  
  

• Develop risk register, review periodically and compile inputs and documents for Management Risk Reviews

  
  

• Assist in preparing for Technical & Commercial Reviews, Project Execution Reviews and other reviews.

  
  

• Provide necessary inputs to Project Controls department for project schedule preparation.

  
  

• Assist in preparing technical and commercial proposals as per client requirement particularly addressing critical sections such as project execution plans, organization charts, job specific technical write ups, bank guarantees, commercial and technical qualifications. Prepare responses to the client post bid queries.

  
  

• Perform all other duties as required for timely and quality Proposal Submission in accordance with Proposal

  
  

• Procedure and in compliance to Tender requirement.

  
  

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
 

• Engineering degree preferably Chemical / Mechanical with a minimum year of experience Project Management, Project Engineering Management with Engineering or EPC Companies in oil & gas, refining, petrochemical industries.