Engineering Manager

Job description / Role

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

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Engineering Director with a proven track record in leading and managing the engineering department, ensuring the successful execution of projects and alignment with company goals for a high-profile client.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's Oil, Gas and New Energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe. We have experienced teams, a proven delivery model, and a strong reputation.

We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids, and decarbonization and electrification markets. We pride ourselves in steady and predictable delivery, setting our sights on an exciting growth trajectory.

Energy security, transition, and supply have never been more important. You, our enabling teams, are at the very forefront of transformative projects that are providing sustainable power to generations to come. We are the ones to bring low-carbon concepts to reality.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects: Delivered to high-profile clients across the energy sector.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion: We are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
• Competitive remuneration package: With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• 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.
• End of service gratuity: In line with UAE labor law, all employees are eligible for an end of service benefit.
• 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 five-year service milestones.
• 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.
• Energy transition academy: Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems delivered by experts in their field.

The key objectives for this role are:

• Ensuring engineering projects align with the company's strategic goals and objectives.
• Leading and managing the engineering team to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Efficiently allocating resources, including personnel, budget, and equipment, to optimize project outcomes.
• Providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure high-quality engineering solutions and adherence to industry standards.
• Overseeing the successful execution of engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Maintaining effective communication with stakeholders, including upper management, clients, and team members, to ensure alignment and address any issues promptly.
• Monitoring and evaluating the performance of engineering projects and team members, implementing improvements as needed.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Contributes to delivery of engineering excellence through:

• Driving technical assurance on the assigned scope(s) of work.
• Managing and leading, supporting, and supervising the discipline engineering teams on the assigned scope(s) 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.

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.

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 and 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 in the execution and delivery of contracted activities:

• Responsible for the engineering content of project execution plans for assigned contracts and projects.
• Responsible for the direction and management of the engineering and associated project activities of the business grouping and 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 integration of work.
• Reviews technical concepts of major projects.
• Personally participates in solving difficult technical problems.
• Resolves conflicts that are complex and manages divergent audiences.
• Responsible for facilitating agreement between conflicting parties.
• Resolves issues which are non-recurring and occasionally novel.
• Carries responsibility for resolution of major problems for the engineering segment.
• Assist in identifying and requesting functional support to projects and 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 regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives, and industry technology developments.

Qualifications

Skills and 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.

Expected:

• Engineering degree in any discipline.
• Minimum 20 years of experience.
• Minimum 5 years recent experience as an Engineering Director on major gas processing EPC and EPCm projects.
• Balance of technical and management experience at relevant level and position.
• Typically requires several years of supervisory experience with an understanding of human relations, training, performance evaluation, and health and safety.
• Broad and extensive knowledge of engineering theories and techniques and a high level of skill in 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 regulatory framework and associated legislation.
• Current knowledge of industry and technology development within 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 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.