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Job description / Role
Wood is recruiting for an Engineering Manager (Expression of Interest) based in Dubai.
Responsibilities
Wood is recruiting for an Engineering Manager (Expression of Interest) based in Dubai.
Managing Engineering excellence through:
- Driving technical assurance
- Managing, developing, and retaining a motivated and competent Engineering team
- Executing assigned business objectives
- Actively leads in Competency and Training
- Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities
- Undertake the role of process owner
- Performance reporting to senior management
People:
- Manage performance of direct reports
- Ensures compliance and adherence of competence procedures of Engineering team
- Manages succession planning and delivery on behalf of the company and support the contracts
- Setting and improving standards for the development and retention of motivated and competent people
- Manage recruitment, selection, transfers, and promotion of resources to meet Engineering team requirements
Process Ownership:
- Continuous promotion of corporate / client specific procedures
- Development and delivery of the technical safety standard expectations and technical assurance
- Drive compliance and adherence of competence procedures of Engineering Team
- Monitor compliance with competence standards
- Manage incident investigations as required
- Set performance expectations for direct reports
- Ensure Engineering risk is identified, recorded, managed, and mitigated
Subject Matter Expertise:
- Actively maintaining own competence and continuous development
- Assist in providing functional support to projects / contracts as required
- Roll out and implementation of learning opportunities from across the business
- Conduit for regulatory framework, legislation changes and technology developments
General:
- Supporting and supervising tasks delegated to respective team.
- Executing assigned business objectives.
- Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities.
- Manage and direct resources efficiently and effectively.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Degree qualification in engineering subject from an accredited university
- Chartered Engineer or equivalent with recognized professional body preferable
Knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Minimum 15 years relevant experience in major Brownfield oil/gas projects including at least five (5) years in similar position
Role-Specific Skills:
- Capable of representing Operations MEAC and client to business associates in a professional manner
- Specific experience in Middle East for renowned clients, preferred
- Management of Engineering teams in multiple offices
- Capable use of discipline software and proactively encourage development
- Professional demeanour
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to maintain discipline and resolve conflict
- Able to demonstrate team building skills and capable of influencing people at all levels
- Enthusiastic, proactive, conscientious, and keen to learn
- Flexible with a can-do attitude
Personal attributes:
Core Values and Behaviours:
- Provide strong leadership in promoting, demonstrating and being a role model in accordance with company core values and ethics policy
- Strong focus on safety
- Passionately pursues and supports, demonstrates and embeds company values
- Strong team builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of co-operation and energizing people towards optimum performance enabling cross functional best practice
- Able to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people, many without a direct reporting relationship
- Critical thinker with problem solving abilities
- Excellent verbal, written and presentational communication skills
About the Company
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.