Senior Engineer, Development Planning

1. KEY OBJECTIVES

• Identify and assess new opportunities for exploration and greenfield development. Participates in detailed feasibility studies and provides the best proposal for management consideration.
• Support negotiation preparation, including developing negotiation strategies and preparing in contract negotiation to maximize project.
• Provide development planning oversight across ongoing EPCIC projects, ensuring execution remains aligned with project sanction (FID) basis, schedule, cost, and quality targets through to first hydrocarbon.
• Lead interface and stakeholder management across internal disciplines, contractors, JV partners, and authorities to secure timely, aligned decisions throughout the project lifecycle and achieve stakeholders’ expectations.
• Coordinate the operations readiness and assurance interface, ensuring greenfield assets are systematically prepared for a safe, reliable, and on-schedule handover to Operations.

2. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support detailed feasibility study on selected exploration and green field development opportunity to determine feasibility/commerciality of the project:
  • Coordinating with relevant parties both technical and support teams to set up feasibility study plan on the selected opportunity
  • Engaging with external engineering consultants to perform the assigned feasibility study (if necessary)
  • Coordinating, and monitoring the implementation activities to ensure timely delivery of results covering all aspects.
  • Consolidating and reviewing the results of the comprehensive studies, identifying key risks and opportunities, and recommending whether to proceed or defer the project.
  • Develop and execute suitable negotiation strategies and contract to ensure maximum investment return to PTTEP:
  • o    Prepare and propose suitable negotiation strategies with maximum investment return to PTTEP for approval
    o    Coordinate and consult with Legal Team to draft and review contract and ensure project’s requirement
    o    Participate and support in commercial negotiation activities
    o    Coordinate with related functions to organize the signing contract activities.

2.1 PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support team to hand-over greenfield development projects to operations within assigned timeline:
  • Develop hand-over plan to operations to ensure readiness to startup.
  • Coordinate and meet with related functions both operations and support team to share and transfer information and prepare for hand-over implementation activities in timely manner.
  • Manage and coordinate the implementation of hand-over as planned and ensure smooth and success of the hand-over activities until completion
• Formulate development plans and integrate the 5-year work program and budget (WPB) for exploration and greenfield activities.
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2.2 PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide development planning oversight of ongoing EPCIC contracts, monitoring contractor performance against schedule, cost, scope, and quality baselines, and escalating deviations with recommended corrective actions. 
• • Review and challenge contractor deliverables, change orders, and progress reporting to protect project value and safeguard the FID/FEL execution basis.
  • Track project KPIs, cost/schedule variance (VOWD, S-curves, earned value), and interface milestones; maintain an integrated view of risk exposure and mitigation status for management.
  • Maintain and drive the project risk register, ensuring material technical, commercial, and execution risks are surfaced with quantified impact and clear ownership.
  • Interface coordinator across engineering disciplines (drilling, subsurface, pipeline, marine & logistics, HSE, contracts) and external parties to ensure timely, aligned decision-making.
  • Manage the interface register between EPCIC scopes, tie-ins, brownfield connections, and third-party infrastructure to eliminate scope gaps and clashes.
  • Prepare and deliver executive-level briefings, decision papers, and stakeholder communications that provide both situational awareness and clear action requests or decision points.
  • Coordinate the interface for operations readiness, developing and driving the Operations Readiness and Assurance (ORA) plan to ensure the asset is prepared for safe and reliable start-up.

3. KEY AUTHORITIES

As provided/assigned by Head of Greenfield Development Planning

4. WORKING RELATIONSHIP

Internal

• The Dept. / Line Managers (Subsurface, Drilling and Well, Engineering, Project Execution, Commercial, Accounting and Finance etc)  
• Corporate Team from Bangkok office.

External

Works with:

• PETRONAS, PETRONAS Carigali and Joint Venture Partners.
• Related stakeholders in the project.

5. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Mandatory

• Degree in engineering or related discipline with demonstrated experience in offshore greenfield development. MBA or a postgraduate degree in Economics or Finance is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of the development project lifecycle (FEL 1–3, FID, Execution) and stage-gate assurance.
• Proven interface and stakeholder management across multi-discipline and multi-contractor environments.
• Minimum 5-10 years’ of upstream experience in E&P industry
• Strong leadership skills, highly motivated and organized.
• A self-starter with ability to multi-task.
• Detail oriented with excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
• • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

   

  • Self-motivator and able to work independently with minimal supervision.

CORE Competencies