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You will take complete engineering ownership from tender and concept development through detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction support, installation, commissioning, performance testing, and final handover.\nKey Responsibilities\nMultidisciplinary Project Leadership: Lead and coordinate mechanical, process, E&I, draughting, and project engineering inputs across EPC/EPCM plant project lifecycles.\n\nTechnical Interface & Ownership: Serve as the senior technical interface between Projects, BD, Operations, clients, consultants, and site teams while maintaining strict scope definition and change control.\n\nDeliverable & Baseline Control: Ensure engineering deliverables, schedules, budgets, technical specifications, drawings, calculations, and equipment selections meet required quality and baseline standards.\n\nQuality & Standards Compliance: Drive standardisation, design reviews, constructability, operability, maintainability, and lessons learned while ensuring compliance with MPT SHERQ and ISO 9001 standards.\n\nResource & Budget Management: Develop and manage engineering budgets, planned hours, resource loading, and schedules across concurrent plant projects.\n\nRisk & Interface Management: Identify and mitigate engineering risks, manage scope boundaries, battery limits, and resolve technical queries (RFIs, TQs, NCRs).\n\nRequirements & Qualifications\nAcademic Qualifications: BEng / BSc Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Required). 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