Nghc Overall Engineering Director

**Job Description and Qualifications**

**THE NEOM GREEN HYDROGEN COMPANY**
Air Products, ACWA Power and NEOM have entered into a Joint Venture agreement and established the NEOM GREEN HYDROGEN COMPANY (NGHC). The Company will be Owner and Operator of the world’s first and largest green hydrogen project at an estimated capital investment of USD$ 5bn. This unique project will be a fore-runner in green hydrogen-based ammonia production being powered by ca. 4 GW of renewable energy comprising solar, wind and battery storage. The facility will serve the new and expanding global Hydrogen market. The project is sited in the NEOM region of Saudi Arabia and is scheduled to be onstream by 2026.

As an essential part of the execution and delivery of the project, NGHC is seeking an Engineering Director to lead the Owner’s Engineer function on behalf of the Owner across all elements of the project.

The project will be awarded under a single-wrap EPC contract and will consist of green hydrogen elements (GHE) and power elements (PWE) comprising:

- an electrolyzer plant rated at 2.2 GW for hydrogen production;
- ammonia production and storage delivering ca. 1.25 Mtpa;
- a solar power plant of 2.2 GWac capacity;
- a wind farm of 1.65 GW capacity;
- a 400 MWh battery storage facility;
- approximately 280 km of transmission power lines and 3 substations;
- interconnection grid systems to connect various facilities for security and reliability.

The Engineering Director’s role will be critical in providing management oversight and monitoring of the performance of the EPC contractor both in the design and engineering of the facility, as well as, in the construction, commissioning and final completion and hand-over. The green hydrogen element site with the electrolyzers, H2 compression and storage, air separation units, the ammonia production and storage facility and auxiliary systems is located on the Red Sea coast north of the town of Duba. The power elements comprising wind and solar plants are sited approximately 150 km north and 60 km west, respectively of the GHE plant.

The Engineering Director will be embedded in the Owner’s Execution Team. Given the complexity of the overall project, a matrix organization is envisaged to allow the role to work and coordinate across the Project Leads (Project Managers and Project Directors) of the green hydrogen, the power and the network and interface elements. Further, the role may utilize the dedicated functional support service resources within the Team to source expertise for quality management, EHSS, contracts administration and project controls

The Role shall set up its own dedicated Owner’s Engineer team to complement the resources in the matrix organization. This will involve specialist staffing resources seconded from the individual JV shareholders with strong operational expertise, plus the use of third party SMEs for the construction/commissioning oversight and monitoring.

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES**

The Engineering Director’s role spans across all project elements. In that respect, it is similar to the functional support services which serve the element Project Managers and Directors. It does play the key role in ensuring the quality and level of engineering and execution performance of the EPC Contractor in accordance with the Project Documents. An important and critical feature of the role is to ensure the correct and seamless technical interface between the various project elements.
Notwithstanding the above, the principal duties will cover and not be limited to the following:
Design Review

The Engineering Director (ED) shall be responsible for the coordination and supervision of resources for the review and approval of the design and engineering documentation as listed in the EPC Contractor’s Document Review Matrix (Document List) in accordance with the baseline submission/delivery date and approval dates of the documents. The ED shall manage the EPC Contractor to provide all documents consistently according to an agreed the Document Control System. Importantly, the ED shall manage the entire internal design review process, including but not limited to the process of review and approval of all documents in the DRM in accordance with the Project Documents and according to good engineering practice. The ED shall ensure the efficient and optimum use of time and effort with least administrative effort by use of select and appropriate document management systems and online edit tools.

Furthermore, the ED shall conduct regular engineering/technical meetings with the EPC Contractor and other stakeholders as necessary for the purpose of resolving and clarifying outstanding issues in the review process and to provide regular updates of the DRM including actual progress and new forecast dates. The ED shall coordinate the submission of weekly/monthly reports to line-management detailing progress and areas of concern.

Construction Oversight

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