Procurement Engineer

**Key Responsibilities**

**Tender Strategy & Governance**
- Critically review Statements of Requirement (SORs) and advise on the most suitable tendering and contracting strategies in alignment with global best practices and company's governance frameworks.
- Assess and validate pre-qualification documents, invitation packages, and evaluation criteria, providing authoritative recommendations for bidder shortlisting.
- Design bespoke tender strategies (Open, Classified, or Single Source) and determine the most effective bidding models (Two-bid or Two-stage) based on project complexity, risk profile, and market intelligence.Prepare and present comprehensive Tender Plans, including classified tender strategies and direct selections, to senior management and Tender Committees.

**Scope & Document Integrity**
- Conduct line-by-line reviews of Scopes of Work/Services to identify contractual gaps, unbounded liabilities, technical ambiguities, and impossible obligations.
- Ensure full coherence, accuracy, and consistency across all tender documentation.Design and recommend the most fit-for-purpose pricing mechanisms, strictly aligned with defined Scopes of Work/Services.

**Risk Management & Mitigation**
- Oversee comprehensive risk identification and allocation within the tendering framework, ensuring compliance with company's HSE Risk Management Guidelines.Integrate risk registers and mitigation strategies into contractual documentation, balancing project objectives against contractor obligations.

**Bidder Engagement & Clarification Management**
- Oversee the management of all tenderer queries during the bidding phase, ensuring timely, accurate, and consistent responses.
- Prepare and issue Tender Bulletins covering unpriced commercial queries, ensuring clarity and transparency throughout.Actively participate in mid-tender meetings, site visits, and high-stakes negotiations with potential contractors.

**Technical Evaluation Oversight**
- Engage deeply during technical evaluation of bids, ensuring compliance with commercial and contractual requirements.
- Identify all technical and commercial deviations and prepare structured clarifications until bids are aligned with tender requirements.Collaborate with the Technical Evaluation Team to consolidate evaluation reports and ensure compliance with company's procedure

**Commercial Evaluation Leadership**
- Lead the commercial evaluation process, including full analysis of contractor proposals, preparation of commercial tabulations, and submission of formal evaluation reports.Convene and direct meetings with Commercial Evaluation Teams to resolve discrepancies, ensuring timely escalation to Tender Committees.

**Ethics & Compliance**
- Enforce strict adherence to fair, transparent, and ethical tendering practices, ensuring evaluation criteria are applied equitably to all bids.Act as the compliance authority to guarantee that company's policies, procedures, and contractual governance standards are upheld throughout the evaluation process.

**Contract Award & Drafting**
- Coordinate closely with Sponsoring Departments post-evaluation to finalize Letters of Award (LoA) and ensure timely issuance.
- Develop and finalize complex contract documentation, incorporating all modifications from Tender Bulletins and Clarifications.Facilitate multi-departmental reviews and secure approvals prior to contractor execution.

**Post-Award Administration & Change Management**
- Provide ongoing contract administration support, including validation of contractor bonds, insurances, and guarantees.
- Lead Change Management, critically reviewing change proposals from contractors or company.
- Evaluate Change Requests (CRs) for technical, commercial, and contractual implications, preparing submissions for Tenders Committees in line with RPWA and CCPM procedures.Advise on and mitigate contractor claims through negotiation strategies and risk-shared settlements.

**Contract Close-Out & Performance Review**
- Ensure early initiation of close-out processes, verifying Completion Certificates (CC), Statement of Final Accounts (SFA), Close-out Reports (COR), Contractor Performance Evaluations (CPE), and Discharge Certificates (DC).Ensure knowledge transfer and lessons learned are captured for future contracting strategies.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor Of Science in Engineering Discipline. A post graduate qualification in Contract Management or Project Management desirable.
- 12 years multi-disciplinary experience in contract execution, including minimum 6 years in offshore Tenders/contracts (Study/FEED as well as EPIC) for Process platforms, Living Quarter, Compressor Platform, wellhead platforms and production, gas lift and water injection lines, submarine power cables, subsea skids and umbilicals and associated brownfield modification at existing platforms.
- Extensive experience in all aspects of tendering activities related to high/mid value & complex offshore Engineering Contracts for Feasib