Department and Location
Department: Engineering
Location: US LA Cameron - LNG Facility
About Us
The Caturus platform was founded by Kimmeridge, an alternative asset manager focused on the energy sector, with later additional investment by Mubadala Energy. Caturus is building an independent, fully integrated natural gas and LNG export platform in the U.S. through a combination of its upstream operations and Commonwealth LNG, a 9.5 Mtpa LNG export terminal in southwestern Louisiana. Together, we provide low‑cost energy on demand with the lowest carbon footprint.
Position Summary
The Senior Project Engineer manages minor capital projects within the Commonwealth LNG Engineering team. Responsibilities include preparing, scheduling, coordinating and monitoring assigned engineering projects, and ensuring compliance with safety, schedule, budget, applicable codes, regulatory requirements, best practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards and specifications. The role requires excellent project management, supervision, organizational, time‑management, leadership and decision‑making skills.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop or review project scopes of work, execution plans and division of responsibility among stakeholders.
- Develop or review project cost estimates, schedule, manpower and forecast.
- Monitor and report on progress of project execution.
- Deliver progress presentations to the management team.
- Manage internal and external interfaces to ensure effective coordination, teamwork and timely delivery of information.
- Develop or review project quality assurance plans.
- Maintain KPIs to track delivery against budget, schedule, safety and quality expectations.
- Manage resources to deliver projects within budget, schedule and quality expectations.
- Apply best practices in change management to control scope changes and their cost and schedule impacts.
- Ensure quality of project deliverables, including documentation, materials and field execution.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to create efficient engineering solutions and execution methods to maintain profitability.
- Lead development of ITB packages.
- Lead technical and commercial evaluations of contractor proposals and contracts.
- Communicate formally with contractors.
- Manage multidisciplinary MOC processes to ensure quality documentation and efficient approval and execution.
- Provide project justification and steward proposed projects through the internal approval process.
- Lead project team meetings and issue meeting minutes.
Qualifications
Education, Certificates, and Licenses
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
Experience
- 10+ years of prior or relevant engineering experience required.
- LNG experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to comprehend design specifications, standards and contracts.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Efficient meeting facilitation skills.
- Capability to develop comprehensive scopes of work.