For a project in Dubai, we are looking for a Interface and Technical Change Control Lead

 

Job Description

• Ensure discipline activities conform to company frameworks, contract requirements, Project Execution Plan, and relevant laws and regulations.
• Foster strong communication and cooperation between the base organization and project teams.
• Maintain and manage the interface management and change control system.
• Handle technical aspects of changes, minimize design changes, and implement necessary project changes.
• Manage all critical interfaces, ensuring that changes impacting contract exhibits, project cost, and schedule are properly handled through the change control system.
• Oversee Technical Queries (TQs) and Action Tracking processes, ensuring timely follow-ups and closure of actions.
• Implement interface requirements in contracts and purchase orders.
• Coordinate and organize regular interface coordination meetings.
• Proactively resolve any issues where agreement between interfacing contractors is not achieved.
• Report regularly on interface and change status to the Project Engineering Manager and PDE Project Control Team.
• Evaluate discrepancies between Interface systems and those required by the Client or PDE specifications.
• Expedite TQ answering and Action Tracker closeout processes within the PDE team and with external contractors and the Client.
• Contribute to technical audits and experience transfer initiatives.
• Ensure safety, quality, and management standards are implemented within interface systems.

Qualification Requirements

• Technical education at bachelor’s level or higher in a relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in interface management, particularly in the oil and gas or related industry.
• Recent experience working with electronic interface management systems is essential; experience with PIMS interface and change control modules is an advantage.
• Familiarity with UK rules and regulations and experience in the UK North Sea project execution is a plus.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work in a multidiscipline project team.
• Excellent diplomatic and assertiveness skills.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Previous experience working in Middle East and/or Southeast Asian shipyards.

Key skills

• Interface management
• Change control
• Technical query management
• Project coordination
• Leadership and communication
• Problem-solving and decision-making

About MDE

When the right people connect, we create value.

MDE Group is a global recruitment company, specializing in finding and placing the greatest talents worldwide. MDE currently consists of 12 companies that offer consulting, staffing, recruitment services as well as offshore personnel. With our unique knowledge of both the local and the international market, we will connect employees and companies, so they both find exactly what they are looking for. MDE aims to contribute to people developing and to ensure that our customers achieve great value from our services. We first succeed when both clients and our candidates reach their goals, together.

Our mission is to deliver relevant expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult!