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Deputy Subsea & Pipelines Manager

KBR Consulting is a multidiscipline organization, which incorporates a Subsea & Pipelines team. Projects delivered by the team include onshore pipelines, offshore pipelines and subsea engineering for project phases from feasibility through to Front End Engineering & Design (FEED). We work with other disciplines to deliver projects and also deliver stand-alone subsea and pipeline projects.

We are seeking a Deputy Subsea and Pipelines Manager to work as part of the KBR Consulting International team based in Leatherhead.

The successful candidate will be a key member of the team and will work with the existing Subsea and Pipelines Manager to grow the existing worldwide team, support business processes and maintain the high quality of our engineering deliverables.

The candidate should have excellent organizational skills and be good at communicating and guiding others. They should be able to multi-task, work without supervision, exercise good judgment and communicate with colleagues in the wider KBR organisation.

The candidate shall support the group’s overall sales effort through proposal / tender preparation, contract negotiation, and other client interfacing activities.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Senior professional with strong personal drive and credibility with both internal and external stakeholders. Provide expert knowledge and guidance of subsea and pipelines to projects. A high energy individual with a desire to make a difference and offer suggestions for improvement & recommendations. Must be flexible and able to adapt to changing project-related priorities and deliver high quality, accurate work within required deadlines. Participation in cross fertilisation of work between KBR departments and developing a OneKBR approach to execute projects. Developing and maintaining customer relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction at project level and resolving any issues. Train, develop & mentor the next generation of pipeline and subsea engineers; and abide by the KBR Code of Business Conduct and business ethics.

The candidate should be able to demonstrate depth of experience and knowledge in a number of the following services areas:

Onshore pipeline engineering, including all major engineering standards; Offshore pipeline engineering, including all major engineering standards; Subsea engineering, including all major engineering standards. Field development. Execution of feasibility and configuration studies. Execution of FEED projects Developing proposals; and Engaging with clients.

Essential skills, experience & qualifications:

Must be able to work across multiple projects and proposals. Must be able to plan resources across multiple projects and disciplines. a relevant number of years of industry experience. Degree in engineering. Chartered engineer. Good analytical and problem-solving skills. Positive and flexible attitude. Excellent verbal communication skills for interacting with clients, good cultural awareness. Diplomatic in meeting and working with people (internally and externally); Flexible and willing to work extra hours as necessary to accommodate occasional work load peaks; Work experience with an industry company or technical consultancy is a major plus. Fluent English, additional languages are a plus.

KBR COMPANY INFORMATION

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services. 

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

KBR Consulting, through the incorporation of KBR’s wholly owned subsidiary Granherne, draws on a heritage of over thirty-five years specialising in the front-end phases of oil & gas field, refinery and petrochemical development projects from pre-feasibility, through feasibility and pre-FEED, up to and including preliminary FEED phases. In addition, we undertake small FEEDs as well as providing specialist consultancy to later through to phases of projects including debottlenecking studies, brownfield modifications, production optimisation, operations and decommissioning.

Our experience covers all forms of oil & gas field developments including onshore and offshore production and gathering facilities for greenfield, brownfield, refinery rehabilitation projects and petrochemical facility developments. The front-end nature of the work means that we are often involved in developments in areas and technologies new to the oil and gas industry.

KBR is actively pursuing energy transition as a core strategy across our organisation. This includes our development of both blue and green hydrogen production to support our ammonia technology and other areas of hydrogen consumption in our technology portfolio. In addition, we are actively adding technology across our entire technology portfolio that meets the energy transition goals of reducing carbon dependency and carbon footprint. This includes adding bio-based routes to core chemicals and other carbon-reducing options.

KBR is a thought leader delivering low carbon solutions. Our work includes development of low-carbon roadmaps and strategies, technologies, and designs to improve efficiency. In 2019 we achieved carbon neutrality; KBR now plans to achieve business net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. Through its Consultancy International business, which is founded on strategy, innovation, and engineering, it assists large energy companies to develop and implement strategies that advance their net-zero objectives and increase sustainability. KBR’s strategic ambition is that of delivering a cleaner, greener future with KBR energy transition expertise and proprietary technologies.

It's pillars include:

Green / blue hydrogen. Green / blue ammonia. Carbon capture and storage. Decarbonisation of existing assets; Circular economy. Renewable biofuels; and Renewable energy integration.

Cost estimation and planning are both a regular feature of our studies and they are often bespoke to specific client methodologies. In addition to cost estimating and project planning, our capability covers the spectrum of all the front-end technical disciplines including risk and safety analysis and value engineering. With access to the entire KBR organisation globally we are able to draw on a great depth of technical capability and experience, including that of legacy companies Granherne, GVA and Energo, and also ensure that our projects take full advantage of the execution experience obtained in the later phases of projects.

Over the years, KBR has provided support for some of the largest industry capital investments in modern times. Moreover, KBR has acted as lender’s advisor on well over 200 projects for a broad range of clients and financial institutions across many sectors including upstream and downstream oil and gas, speciality chemicals, mining, biofuels, pulp and paper, power, and general infrastructure.

KBR has an increasing bias towards operations related activities both in the impact on the design of new especially unmanned production facilities as well as the optimisation of operations. We have a number of personnel with oil company / operations backgrounds and have developed several unique applications to support our operations related activities.

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