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Job title:  Senior Subsea packages EPC Contract Engineer

Sector: Oil & Gas
Starting date:  01/11/2025
Duration: 12 Month
Location: France / Paris Area
Status: Resident
Language: French & English Fluent

OBJECTIFS ET LIVRABLES

ACTIVITIES

The activities deal with worldwide Contract Engineering and Administration but also Claims Management (including Contractor and Company claims and disputes) as detailed below:

1- Senior contract engineer for subsea packages on designated offshore projects supported by the TGP entity: “Project Assistance”:

• Provide support for all contract and procurement activities required by the designated capital project(s),
• Be able to advise and execute contractual documentation on more complex forms of CFT’s: CCFT, OBE/OBT, FEED+, etc.
• Develop the CFT package: commercial structure, contract terms, etc.
• Launch CFT and manage contractual qualification and exception review and negotiation,
• Evaluate commercial aspects of the bids and recommend award,
• Claim Preventive awareness (contract management methods, tendering stage and early execution stage),
• Support project team to obtain relevant approvals and/or to go through any kind of gates.

2- Senior referent for some Projects contract engineering:

• Participate in defining and coordinating the contract methods for the entity (Contract toolbox, Competence requirement for contract engineers, expertise requirement, evaluation quiz…),
• Participate in coaching the contract engineers of the entity (Assistance, advice, training…),
• Ensure Governance is followed for Contracts process on projects of his/her perimeter (CFT, RTA, approvals),
• Ensure recurrent contacts with the contract engineers/managers of the Projects of his/her perimeter,
• Represent TGP/PJE in different types of Project Reviews for the contractual subjects.

3- Coordination with TGP legal entity

• Participate to the overall coordination with TGP/JUR/PJE: information sharing, coordination of actions for the on-going projects of his/her perimeter…
• Contribute to ensure coherence between PJE, JUR/PJE and Project’s needs.

4- Assist and/or participate in Claim Management or Counterclaim process:

• Analysis and review of existing Contracts/Claims: provide expertise support to projects for existing Contracts/Claims and corresponding resolution (contracts execution phase / close out phase):
• Advise and direct the projects for “on the spot requests” with regards to management of claims,
• Investigate and assess merit of major claim/dispute,
• Provide higher understanding and recommendations for building the Claim dossiers and corresponding settlement,
• Assist the project in drafting correspondences and notices to Contractors.

5- Contribute continuously to Contracts REX/Lessons Learnt consolidation. For each of the dossier, is starting by screening the existing REX and when completing a dossier preparing main lessons learnt to be shared with other contract engineers and to be archived.

CONTEXT & ENVIRONMENT
Typical EPC Package Project spent: 50M$ up to 3B$ CAPEX, with high complexity, for the different TotalEnergies branches with offshore work (E&P, GRP/OFW)

• Extensive transversal management of internal to C&P TotalEnergies (TGP) entities (Categories, Legal…) and external entities (Business, Line products, Projects, Technical Entities)
• Role of representation of TGP project entity towards the projects and affiliates, in particular during some committees (Local contract committees for instance, shareholders, suppliers’ meetings…)
• Single Point for Contact matters on some designated projects
• Recent experiences are required in CFT and Administration of Subsea contracts (minimum 10years)

NB. minimum 15years in EPC type contracts engineering and administration for offshore projects

COMPETENCES
Ability to manage heavy workload in a fast-paced environment / Expert
Sharing of information/lessons learnt and communication skills / Expert
Claim Management / Expert
Contract preparation, CFT, negotiation, administration / Expert
Knowledge of project phases including some experience as package contract engineers / Expert
Ability to work with complexity and challenging stakeholders / Expert
EPC contract professional (15 years dedicated to Projects) / Expert
Ability to influence & manage in transversal / Expert
Subsea packages for offshore Projects / Expert
Communication, influencing and networking skills / Expert