Department Manager

Job description / Role

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.

Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

Key Accountabilities
Business Development Support
- Assists business development activities by facilitating the maintenance of personal profiles and resumes, tracking existing capabilities, and strategically addressing future customer capability requirements.
- Encourages positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
- May be involved in networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts. Maintains pricing records reflecting the effort to complete discipline activities.
- May support proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating, and reviewing costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead part or all a proposal.

Business Operations
- Participates in budgeting and manages discipline operations to the budget.
- Controls discipline staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures.
- Oversees engineering software licensing costs, employee usage, and skill development. Creates and maintains discipline guidelines.
- Ensures mentoring/training requirements are met.
- Manages the employee performance review process.
- Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
- Contributes to dispute resolution efforts.
- Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

Technical Competency
- Owns discipline technical competency and quality programs and oversees technical competency of those within the discipline.
- Ensures team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
- Supports global standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates and oversees use by the team.
- Assures the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
- Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
- Appoints senior "known and trusted" team members to conduct checking and perform technical peer reviews and manages the execution of them.

Project Execution
- Facilitates meeting project requirements using discipline guidelines, programs, and management of the resources allocated to projects.
- May participate in project execution strategy and planning.
- Drives innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
- May work with Project Management Teams to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

Requirements

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Essential)
- Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local engineering governing body where required by law.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Desirable)
- Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential)
- Has a strong background in discipline work, and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices.
- Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Adept at budgeting and cost control.
- Typically has relevant years of discipline experience and experience in project leadership.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable)
- Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

About the Company

Worley is a leading global provider of professional services in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors. We partner with our customers to address their most critical challenges at every stage of their projects: from initial concepts to sustaining and enhancing their assets. And we provide smarter, bolder solutions while delivering on our own sustainability commitments.

We are 51,000 bright minds across 46 countries all driven by a common purpose – delivering a more sustainable world. While working to fulfill our ambition to be recognized globally as the leader in sustainability solutions.