ISMAEEL's CV
ISMAEEL AL AYOUBI
INTERFACE MANAGER | OIL & GAS | EPC / EPCM / PMC
Profile summary
Strategic Interface Manager with 15 years of experience shaping oil and gas outcomes across EPC, EPCM, and PMC projects in the GCC. Known for interface management, multidisciplinary stakeholder coordination, contractor oversight, and operational readiness. Committed to delivering engineering and construction execution aligned with project requirements, HSE standards, and quality objectives.
Career highlights
Interface Management Across EPC Projects: Managed interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, client, and subcontractors while developing and maintaining Interface Management Plans and Interface Registers.
Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinated multidisciplinary and contractor interfaces across FEED, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases while leading interface meetings and tracking actions through to closure.
Risk and Schedule Resolution: Identified and resolved interface issues affecting schedule, cost, and execution by monitoring interface risks, constraints, and actions affecting project delivery.
Commissioning and Handover Support: Supported testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover by coordinating contractor activities and resolving project interface issues.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs multidisciplinary technical interfaces across engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations phases. Oversees project delivery workflows, compliance standards, and operational readiness protocols.
- Coordinates contractor activities and resolves project interface issues.
- Monitors interface risks, constraints, and actions affecting project delivery.
- Ensures compliance with project, HSE, and quality requirements.
- Supports testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover.
Shaped interface management strategy, steering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, client, and subcontractor functions. Defined communication protocols and alignment frameworks to support multidisciplinary project execution in Abu Dhabi.
- Built and maintained Interface Management Plans and Interface Registers.
- Facilitated interface meetings, tracking all assigned actions through to closure.
- Identified and resolved interface issues affecting schedule, cost, and execution.
Managed interface registers, actions, and technical coordination across project phases. Coordinated stakeholders, contractors, consultants, and project disciplines.
- Led interface management across FEED, procurement, construction and commissioning.
- Identified interface risks and coordinated mitigation actions.
- Supported project integration and schedule alignment.
Steered control systems execution within an integrated project management team, aligning cross-functional groups across engineering, construction, and operations while reporting directly to project leadership. Managed stakeholder coordination for complex automation infrastructure and technical handover activities across multiple asset phases.
- Coordinated contractor and vendor activities throughout testing and commissioning phases.
- Supported DCS, PLC, SIS, and Fire and Gas system integration while participating in FAT and SAT readiness reviews.
- Resolved technical issues during operations handover.
- Coordinated multidisciplinary construction and systems integration across active project sites.
- Coordinated vendor activities during testing and commissioning phases.
- Reviewed engineering deliverables for E& systems to support pre-commissioning activities.
- Monitored contractor work execution to maintain project HSE and quality compliance standards.
- Installed, tested, and commissioned communication, CCTV, and access control systems.
- Supported systems integration, troubleshooting, and maintenance operations.
Education
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Languages
Arabic · Native
English · Professional