Construction Engineer/Project Engineer (with QA background)

Purpose

• The Construction Excellence Engineer is responsible for driving best practices, ensuring consistent execution standards, and improving construction performance across projects or regions. This role blends engineering, material management, logistic, project management, quality, productivity, data analytics, and continuous improvement. This role ideally operates under the functional responsibility of the Global Construction Excellence Manager.

Responsibilities

• You support the development and lead the deployment of construction execution standards and playbooks on projects and regions, ensuring consistent application and collecting feedback to continuously improve them under the framework defined by Construction Excellence leadership.
• You perform benchmarking analyses of internal and external practices and translate findings into concrete improvement proposals and action plans for deployment, in alignment with priorities set by Construction Excellence leadership.
• You ensure cross‑functional alignment by coordinating with Group Construction and partnering functions to harmonize methodologies, interfaces, and ways of working.
• You monitor and interpret construction performance indicators, turning analytics into actionable insights to support decision‑making and performance improvement.
• You deliver accurate, data‑driven insights and dashboards enabling proactive performance management.
• You lead structured root‑cause analyses of construction deviations and recommend mitigation actions that strengthen execution reliability and reduce repeat issues.
• You design and maintain a consistent Lessons Learned framework ensuring systematic capture, analysis, and reuse of lessons.
• You synthesize lessons learned into actionable improvements, ensuring prevention of recurring issues and the replication of best practices throughout the Construction community.
• You actively contribute to cross-functional forums, promoting knowledge sharing and acting as a champion for learning, capability development, and continuous improvement.

Education

• At least a bachelor’s degree in engineering or construction management or related field.

Experience

• 10+ years in Construction Execution or Construction Engineering or as Quality or Project Engineer within the Oil and Gas industry.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of construction principles (Including field constraints), methodologies, quality requirements, multi-discipline interface and best practices.
• Well-versed in root cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and corrective action/preventive action (CAPA).
• Proficiency in construction management software and tools (Advanced Excel, Power BI dashboards, digital construction tools, construction planning software..)
• Technical Writing of Procedures and Specifications.
• Support to Audits and investigations.
• Cross region and multicultural exposure.

Functional Competencies