Project Engineer

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

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

Wood is recruiting for a Project Engineer to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on delivering clearly defined and complete engineering packages and procurement services for a major onshore brownfield project in Sharjah, UAE.

This role is a full-time onsite role in Sharjah, UAE with possible travel.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Engineer to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our clients and projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood has been awarded an onshore brownfield project to support an international client operation for delivering FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, and commissioning services. This project focuses on enhancing degassing stations, optimizing flare systems, and integrating low-carbon solutions to support our client's energy transition and emissions reduction goals.

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 organisation 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' services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Key objectives

• To deliver clearly defined and complete engineering packages and procurement services including detailed project scopes of work, project specifications, construction work packs, procurement of required and other supporting services as required for successful execution of the project by the client execution materials
• To have single-point responsibility for managing identified project interfaces and ensure that all applicable information is captured to enable the execution contractor to implement a project design, with manageable brownfield integration risk
• To manage technical queries during the execution process, and coordinate responses
• To manage assessment of all bidder exceptions and clarifications received during the procurement process and ensure that all items are closed out prior to completion of technical bid evaluation report
• To ensure that the overall project is delivered to meet the asset operational needs
• To participate in all project safety and design reviews as necessary
• To ensure that all work is completed without compromise to quality and is delivered according to the project schedule
• To drive interface management, liaising with the client's engineering, operations and maintenance staff as required to ensure a consistent approach to project completion
• To promote safe behavior at all times
• To ensure that own actions plus those of the project team are conducted in accordance with the HSE management system
• To have single point responsibility for the efficient delivery of the project within schedule, cost, and quality standards
• To develop the project scope of work in order to define the required deliverables
• To ensure that effective business controls are applied throughout the project on behalf of the client and in accordance with stated requirements. Controls will apply to all HSE, commercial, financial, quality, integrity, and schedule issues
• To be responsible for the management of all project reporting, interface definition and management, plus liaison with client project engineers
• To ensure that technical integrity is fully maintained and that all deviations to project standards and procedures are formally recorded and approved
• To promote a planning - execute - measure - feedback methodology in project engineering

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:

• Highly motivated and self-reliant
• Confident and assertive
• Problem solver
• Good communicator with a willingness to share knowledge and support others
• Flexible and adaptable
• Strong commitment to safety
• Sound supervisory and organizational skills
• Clear communicator with good interpersonal skills
• Knowledge and understanding of supply chain and procurement processes
• Shall have proven capabilities in managing and motivating a multi-discipline team to deliver projects
• Shall be able to demonstrate sound general management skills in all aspects of project engineering
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in design, construction, and general project delivery in the oil and gas industry
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in project engineering or project engineering management

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.