Engineering Manager

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engineering Hub in Sharjah, UAE.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts, and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise, and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonization ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq, delivering maintenance, modifications, and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonizing existing assets, producing cleaner energy, and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high-profile clients and complex projects in Iraq.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion; we are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover.
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company.
• Long service award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication, and many years of service of our employees at 5-year service milestones.

Key Objectives

Responsible for the execution of the engineering portion of a multi-discipline engineering scope of work on one or more projects. Has responsibility for coordinating and completing the various engineering and start-up aspects of a project while meeting HSSE, quality, schedule, and budget performance goals. Has responsibility for the technical excellence of the engineering portion of a project across all disciplines.

Contributes to delivery of engineering excellence through:

• Driving technical assurance on the assigned scopes of work.
• Managing and leading, supporting, and supervising the discipline engineering teams on the assigned scopes of work.
• Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities.
• Developing and retaining motivated and competent people.
• Undertaking the role of process owner.
• Driving safety by design.
• Driving and leading on opportunities for innovation.

May participate directly in the design, development, and inspection of technical projects or in the engineering work of the department.

The Engineering Manager leads by example, consistently displaying and enforcing the company's values and behaviors, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behavior, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Driving technical assurance:

• Continuous promotion of corporate and client-specific procedures.
• Assist in incident investigations as required.
• Monitors compliance with standards and processes to assure delivery.
• Roll out and implementation of learning opportunities from across the business.
• Driving continual focus on process safety through the engineering team.
• Driving elimination of technical incidents through robust controls, incident reviews, and embedding lessons learned.
• Identifies and mitigates areas of risk and improvement opportunities.
• Identifies and pursues improvement opportunities.
• Managing and leading, supporting, and supervising the multidiscipline engineering team.

Managing and Leading the Multidiscipline Engineering Team

• Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate the activities and operations of a multidiscipline engineering team.
• Assist in the management of recruitment, selection, transfers, performance management, succession planning, and promotion of resources to meet engineering team requirements.
• Ensuring appropriately resourced and competent personnel on project or contract.
• Oversight and control of engineering histogram to support workforce planning.
• Assist in setting and maintaining standards for the development and retention of motivated and competent people.

Management of Key Stakeholders

• Responsible for the engineering content of project execution plans for assigned contracts or projects.
• Responsible for the direction and management of the engineering and associated project activities of the business grouping or project.
• Manage and direct resources efficiently and effectively.
• Consult and negotiate with clients to prepare specifications, explain proposals, and present engineering reports and findings.
• Assign, coordinate, and review the technical work of the department or project teams.
• Focuses on managerial concerns of the project such as cost, completion date, and resource allocation. Provides expert resolution of issues and monitors the integration of work.
• Reviews technical concepts of major projects.
• Personally participates in solving difficult technical problems.
• Resolves conflicts that are complex and manage divergent audiences.
• Responsible for facilitating agreement between conflicting parties.
• Resolves issues which are non-recurring and occasionally novel.
• Carries responsibility for the resolution of major problems for the engineering segment.
• Assist in identifying and requesting functional support to projects or contracts as required.
• Accountable for the efficient planning and management of engineering resources, identifying and pursuing opportunities for margin improvement, including HVEC utilization.

Undertaking the Role of Process Owner

• Develop and implement policies, standards, and procedures for the engineering and technical work performed in the department.
• Directs the application of existing principles and the development of new policies and strategies aligned with OU, BU, and corporate objectives.
• Conduit for a regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives, and industry technology developments.

Working Relationships

Internal:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate across the business interfaces.
• Engage with business or functional community and promote the function including networking and knowledge sharing.
• Interactions with heads of disciplines and heads of engineering to ensure resourcing of competent personnel.

External:

• Communicate and cooperate with external stakeholders including industry bodies, academia, vendors, client interface (as appropriate and requested), market intelligence, relevant conferences, and business development.

Level of Influence & Decision Making Authority

• Actions and decisions typically influence the long-term profitability, operating and technical results of the business group or function.
• Accountable for the operational budget of the engineering function within the operating unit.
• Develops annual functional budgets for review and approval by higher levels and prepare period forecast updates.
• Line management for all personnel within the contract or project engineering team.
• Management of change (people and process) and organizational change.
• Responsible for the development of key talent and leadership team succession planning within the engineering function.
• Accountable for delivering against performance KPIs.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge, or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

• B.S. or equivalent degree in Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years relevant experience in major Brownfield oil and gas projects, including at least five (5) years in a similar position.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Demonstrable ability to manage EPC and/or EPCM contracts for onshore Brownfield oil and gas projects for major oil and gas companies.
• Specific experience managing lump sum oil and gas projects across their lifecycle in the GCC region, preferred.
• Broad and extensive knowledge of engineering theories and techniques and a high level of skill in the application of this knowledge in the management of the engineering function.
• Capable of representing business and client-to-business associates in a professional manner.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing people at all levels of the organization.
• Skilled in forecast planning for people resources.
• Skilled in recruitment and selection, employee communication, and management including performance management.
• Able to implement and embed standards and processes to effect delivery of engineering excellence.
• Good knowledge of the regulatory framework and associated legislation.
• Current knowledge of industry and technology development within the area of expertise.
• Expert in engineering excellence.
• Able to carry out audits and incident investigations.
• Good project management skills.
• Skilled in mediation and dispute resolution.
• Financial and commercial awareness.

Personal Attributes

• Role models company values, behaviors, and ethics, and promotes the same in others.
• Significant persuasion and influencing skills.
• Awareness, respect, and the ability to reconcile cultural diversity.
• Pursues continuous development and progression of own skills and knowledge.

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.