Saipem GCC
Hook-Up Manager
- Permanent
- Doha, Qatar
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 10/10/2026
Job overview
Date posted
26/08/2026
Location
Doha, Qatar
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Masters degree
Expiration date
10/10/2026
Job description
In this role you will plan, coordinate, and control the Hook-up phase of the NFPS COMP5 project at Saipem, in accordance with client and contractual requirements, within time and cost constraints and in compliance with HSE and Quality procedures. You will express Hook-up needs during the E&P phases, including Make or Buy, constructability, and material management, identifying the optimum balance among time, cost, and feasibility. You are responsible for ensuring offshore construction activities are completed and effectively handed over to the commissioning team for company final acceptance. Your responsibilities include ensuring HSE and Quality procedures for Hook-up activities are correctly implemented, and ensuring engineering disciplines account for Hook-up requirements while developing detailed engineering deliverables. You will define the Hook-up Project Execution Plan, interfacing with Fabrication, T&I, and commissioning, and support the Project Management Team in defining the Hook-up budget. You are responsible for defining resources mobilization plans and ensuring subcontract specifications and Technical Bid Evaluations are developed in compliance with the Hook-up execution strategy. In this role you will coordinate the Hook-up Offshore Team to ensure smooth offshore campaign completion, and represent Saipem towards clients, partners, and subcontractors, managing contractual aspects relevant to the Hook-up phase. You will contribute to the preparation of project lessons learnt, monitoring Hook-up performance to capitalize on experience and identify areas of improvement.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Ensure that HSE and Quality procedures for Hook-up activities are correctly implemented
- Ensure that Engineering disciplines account for Hook-up requirements while developing detailed engineering deliverables, including material tagging and codification
- Define the Hook-up Project Execution Plan, interfacing with Fabrication, T&I, and commissioning
- Support the Project Management Team in defining the Hook-up budget in line with the Project Execution Plan
- Support Project Control in defining schedule, staffing plan, and cost control report
- Define resources mobilization plan and ensure its implementation in cooperation with HR
- Ensure Subcontract specifications and Technical Bid Evaluation are developed in compliance with the Hook-up execution strategy
- Ensure preparation of Hook-up document lists, procedures, and specifications by the Project Hook-up lead
- Participate or delegate participation to the Hook-up team in engineering reviews such as HAZID, constructability, and 3D model reviews
- Ensure Hook-up Planning and Control detailed activities are performed through the Hook-up Planning and Control system
- Ensure Hook-up requirements relevant to Welding, Painting & Coating and Quality Control are analysed and addressed ahead of the offshore campaign
- Develop a carry-over analysis in cooperation with Fabrication to minimize project disruptions
- Ensure material management procedures are defined and enforced in cooperation with the Yard Project Manager
- Coordinate the Hook-up Offshore Team to ensure smooth offshore campaign completion
- Represent Saipem towards Clients, Partners, and Subcontractors, managing contractual aspects of the Hook-up phase
- Ensure implementation of risk and knowledge management methodologies and Saipem Golden and Silver Rules
- Contribute to the preparation of project lessons learnt, monitoring Hook-up performance to identify areas of improvement
- Support project management functions in identifying and assessing potential variations from contract
- Ensure the Hook-up team liaises with Project Control to provide timely progress data and review overall outcomes
Experience & skills
- Hold a Master's Degree or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, providing the technical foundation needed to manage hook-up scope alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Bring 10 years of experience specifically as a Hook-Up Manager within the oil and gas industry, reflecting the seniority and specialised offshore construction expertise this role demands
- Demonstrate English language skills, along with proficiency in any other language specified by the project, given the role's need to liaise with clients, partners, subcontractors, and multinational project teams
- Show technical skills specific to Hook-Up operations, covering the practical execution of tie-in and commissioning-readiness activities on offshore platforms
- Demonstrate familiarity with HSE and Quality procedures relevant to hook-up activities, since strict compliance with these standards is a core responsibility of the role
- Show experience interfacing with Fabrication, T&I (Transport and Installation), and Commissioning teams, given the role's central coordination function across these disciplines
- Demonstrate experience supporting budget, schedule, and cost control processes within a project management structure, since the role works closely with Project Control on these areas
- Show experience managing subcontractors and evaluating technical bids, reflecting the contractual and commercial aspects of the role
- Demonstrate willingness and ability to work onshore followed by an offshore assignment in Qatar, consistent with the project's phased location requirements
- Show experience contributing to lessons learnt and continuous improvement processes, given the role's responsibility for capturing hook-up performance data to inform future projects