LNG Civil Engineer


Job Details

Airswift is looking for an LNG Civil Engineer to work on a major LNG Project in Chicago, IL, for initially 1-year. The position will be international after 1-year moving to Sohar, Oman, for another 1-year.


Accountable for all matters related to the Civil engineering of the LNG tank, fit for purpose and with full respect to the Statement of Requirement with approved changes.

Prepares and suggests technical content of essential studies to initiate EPC contractor action and conformity with state of the art in LNG tank design.

Supervises all subcontracted studies and provides support to other packages with the support of Head Quarters specialist.

Report and coordinated with Lead Civil in the PLANT package to get consistency in the design.

Ensure Civil design choices take into account constructability, operability and flexibility of the facilities

Proposes recommendations on technical deviation requests and keeps updated the documentation related to the Civil discipline.

Participates to studies required by third parties as required.

Communicates and applies the H3SE policies of the COMPANY and ensure the engineering is developed accordingly.

Ensures the correct implementation of Company rules and specifications (CR s/ GS s), Project specifications, relevant international standards and any applicable regulations requirements.

Leads the review of the CONTRACTOR key deliverables such as: Civil documentation, PO review consolidate comments from the other engineering disciplines and operations.

Provides technical assistance to the project for any technical audits (required by the banks and the insurance companies or Board of Directors, PR ).

Ensure the quality and completeness of Civil designs Final Documentation (deliverables both from the Contractor and the Vendors) in compliance with Project Scope of Work, Specifications and Procedures and allowing an adequate hand-over to the Operation

Reports potential impact on overall project strategy, planning and target achievement.

Promotes workshops with the contractor s specialist in order to ensure COMPANY concepts and comments are well understood and quickly integrated in technical documents.

Guides EPC TANK CONTRACTOR main design selection in a Fit-for-Purpose approach in order to reach an optimized design. Accordingly, he promotes and follow until approval the deviation request to COMPANY requirements in the main time.

Ensures through efficient review the good respect of the applicable frame of reference.

Participates actively to proper interface management with Geotechnical, Safety, Rotating, Electrical studies carried out during the EPSCC phase.

Reviews and comments the key technical documents of the interfacing disciplines such as Process, Safety, Electrical, rotating machines ... as well as project procedures, if required.

Participates to the Project HAZID, PR.

Organizes with its counterpart discipline weekly meetings and report highlights to its management with proposed mitigation measures when deemed required.

Liaise with Plant lead civil engineer to ensure consistency in the design

Provides its technical inputs to any contractual discussions with EPC Contractor.

Contributes to the development of the digital plant though the centric data management when applicable.

Participates actively to proper interface management with all LNG contractor ( PLANT, SIPC, OQGN, etc)

Call for/Participate to interfaces coordination activities and ensure synergies are developed between the different Contractors

Participate to Vendors and in particular for LLIs technical evaluation.

Ensure design validity and coherence with other disciplines and throughout the LNG Facilities.

Get knowledge of the Omani norms and practices and use it in project when relevant.

Assist commissioning, start up and Operation team when required. Transfer project knowledge to operations.

Prepare REX and Lessons Learnt all along the EPC.

Contribute to personnel skills improvement and encourage knowledge transfer


Context & Environment

The project will develop in Oman a regional hub for LNG bunkering service to ultimately supply LNG as fuel to marine vessels.


Qualifications & Experience required

Qualification :

Diploma: Chartered Civil Engineer with proven experience (> 10 years) with LNG tank detailed design

Professional experience: several years of proven experience in EPSCC stage of LNG projects,

Good teamwork, previous team Management desirable

Knowledge of project development in Oman and methods used to submit dossier to state expertise, permitting process, technical approval, Omani norms and standards, are all either an advantage or to progressively acknowledge and incorporate.

Fluent in English





 AirSwift

 05/13/2024

 Chicago,IL