Project Interface Coordinator

Job Purpose

• Coordinate, facilitate, monitor and report on the Interface Agreement process with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient application of interface agreement management practices ensuring a standard approach there-by enhancing the flow of information and data across the project delivery teams, functional groups and external contractors.

Job Context & Major Challenge(s)

• Handle and facilitate the approval of multiple technical Interface agreements with internal & external stakeholders (process an average of 1,000+ Interface agreements per year). The prime intentions for the establishment of interface control is to ensure that the overall integrity of the facilities is maintained and that the interfacing parties fully understand their accountabilities and responsibilities.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Manage, monitor and coordinate all external and internal technical interface agreements (IA) and ensure that a comprehensive, multi-functional review of all technical Interface agreement requests, responses, to and from the interface parties, meets requirements and schedule.
• Prepare information on overall IA process performance and suggest and implement improvements and ensures that interface agreement process is appropriate, well established and maintained.
• Assist in providing the projects will all information related to the interface agreement needed by the requesting parties (i.e. as built drawings) during Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) stages.
• Maintain the technical interface database and report on the status of the IA actions items, providing progress updates on IA process and communicate these to management as appropriate.
• Maintain and update the Interface Tracking Database on the On-Plot; Off-Plot and Offshore Interface Activities and ensure that correspondence with internal and external parties in relation to schedule is coordinated and followed-up.

Key Job Accountabilities – II

• Assist with developing guidelines, processes and procedures necessary to support and control the Interface Agreement process and projects.
• Assist in providing Joint Interest with all information related to the interface agreement needed to develop commercial agreement and A&IA.
• Plan the interface work based upon the interfaces already identified and assigned to support department objectives. Ensure project department/group knowledge of the interface agreement process and their compliance with Company IA procedure.
• Provide advice on construction interface considerations and potential problems ensuring efficient operations.
• Support Lesson Learned and resolve issues between different projects /assets and coordinate reporting trend analysis of project / incidents that have relevance to operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering.

Knowledge and/or Experience

• 8 years experience in a major projects environment and/or operations and maintenance of hydrocarbon processing facilities, preferably in the oil and gas industry with 3 years in a supervisory position.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Interface Agreement Management System & procedures.

Originally posted on Himalayas