Lead HVAC Engineer

Company Description

For more than 40 years, the IOTA Group has been supporting clients in their international expansion by combining compliance, agility, and seamless local integration across more than 150 countries.

We provide tailored solutions that enable our clients to operate confidently across borders through our Employer of Record (EOR), technical consulting, global payroll, and international recruitment services.

What sets IOTA apart is the strength of its global network of 165,000 professionals, supported by a dedicated team driven by an unwavering commitment to excellence.

Through our international subsidiaries, we combine global standards with deep local expertise, ensuring seamless and compliant operations wherever our clients do business.

At IOTA, trust is at the heart of everything we do. We build long-term partnerships based on transparency, reliability, and compliance, helping our clients achieve lasting success in their international growth.

Job Description

• Lead the HVAC discipline, coordinating Contractors, Vendors, Consultants and interfaces with other engineering disciplines.
• Review and oversee HVAC engineering deliverables, designs, calculations, layouts and system architectures to ensure safe, compliant and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Monitor engineering progress, identify technical, schedule and HSE risks, and drive appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide technical support to Construction and Site teams, including resolution of technical queries, non-conformities, shop drawings and installation issues.
• Participate in HSE studies, technical reviews, workshops, site inspections, FAT/SAT, pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up activities.
• Ensure HVAC systems meet requirements for safety, operability, maintainability and regulatory compliance, and support their safe handover to Operations and Maintenance.
• Manage HVAC interfaces, scope changes and technical decisions, while ensuring compliance with TotalEnergies procedures, project specifications and applicable standards.
• Coordinate the HVAC team and ensure appropriate competency, workload distribution and delivery against project milestones.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in HVAC engineering for Oil & Gas or industrial projects, ideally within major EPC/EPSCC environments.
• Strong technical expertise in HVAC design, engineering review, installation, commissioning and operational requirements.
• Experience managing and coordinating Contractors, Vendors and multidisciplinary engineering interfaces.
• Good understanding of HSE, safe-by-design principles, HAZOP/HAZID, constructability, PTW and SIMOPS requirements.
• Ability to identify and manage technical risks, scope changes and engineering deviations while providing clear recommendations to project management.
• Strong communication, coordination, analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and accountable approach.
• Ability to work effectively in an international environment, including assignments in Chengdu, China and Baku, Azerbaijan.

Additional Information

Location: Chengdu, China during detailed engineering, followed by Azerbaijan
Project: Absheron EPSCC Project – Onshore Central Processing Facility
Expected Start Date: January 2027