Senior Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

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

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Planning Engineer with a proven track record for operation for a high-profile client.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's Oil, Gas & 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 on 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 5-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:

• Preparing and maintaining comprehensive commissioning documentation, including test results and certificates.
• Collaborating with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and communication.

Responsibilities

Executing Assigned Scopes of Work:

• Participates as a team member in a specific phase of a broad engineering assignment.
• Directs preparation of appropriate documentation for assigned projects.
• Ensures successful completion of the assigned project/phase within the budgeted time and cost constraints.
• Participates in defining engineering approaches, and in planning and scheduling work.
• Evaluates problems, organizes investigations, and establishes general performance specifications for components, equipment, systems, processes, etc.
• Checks engineering calculations as well as checks all drawings in accordance with industry codes and standards; assists with the development of less senior technical professionals.
• Adheres to and complies with relevant discipline-specific procedures and provides feedback for continuous improvement.
• Participates in audits and incident investigations as required.
• Performs complex engineering tasks related to specific units of major projects.
• Participates in site visits, project review meetings, design reviews, and other workshops as required.
• Organizes and actively participates in design reviews.

Providing Discipline Expertise:

• Solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches; exercises mature professional judgment in evaluating and selecting technical strategic options.
• As necessary, modifies established guidelines, devises new approaches, applies existing criteria in new ways, and draws conclusions from comparative situations.
• Regularly functions as a technical leader or significant contributor to a major complex problem or project.
• Produces innovative ideas and solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches.
• Consistently called on to use creativity and professional judgment to formulate results based on engineering standards, experience, and constructive thinking.
• Develops unique solutions for complex technical problems.
• Anticipates potential problems and takes the initiative to solve complex problems through creative thinking and creative use of internal and external resources both inside and outside of discipline expertise.
• Exercises mature professional judgment in identifying the implications of experimental results.
• Understands customer needs and applies technical solutions to meet goals.
• Provides technical input and support to proposals as required.

Supporting and Supervising Task Delegation to Team:

• May supervise a small work group consisting of technical/professional staff with some coaching from their own supervisor, or may provide advice and guidance in the area of specialization to others.
• Assists in performing managerial tasks as requested, such as assigning tasks to engineers; planning and coordinating portions of the engineering work; preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets; attending project meetings; and developing lesser-experienced technical professionals.
• Discusses with other senior engineers to agree on priorities and implications on the work of others.
• Approves work schedules and makes recommendations for increased resources and special equipment.
• Makes commitments on acceptance of projects, completion dates, resources, and staff required to meet goals.
• Coordinates the activities of engineering and design groups assigned to small projects.
• Participates in developing deadlines, projects, and work to be done.
• May manage one or more small projects, with responsibility for cost, schedule, resource allocation, and risk.
• Provides appropriate HSSE leadership including compliance with site and office safety requirements and technical/design safety requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or business discipline (or equivalent gained through relevant vocational training and/or industry experience).

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Incumbents will typically have a minimum of 10 years relevant scheduling/planning experience.
• Basic knowledge of Primavera and other scheduling software and related tools and techniques including logic and CPM analysis, resource loading, and leveling.
• Basic knowledge of Project Execution Procedures for Scheduling.
• Basic understanding of WBS & CBS structures and project reporting capabilities.
• Basic ability to develop project schedules and plans.
• Basic ability to prepare resource loading, progress, and staffing plans.
• Understanding of earned value application, cost and schedule variance analyses/trending.
• Understanding of project management principles and techniques.
• Understanding of cost management, change control, planning, and risk analysis & management.

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrates commitment to Wood values, visions, and behaviors.
• Applies analytical and statistical analysis.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills both written and oral.
• Uses initiative and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.

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.