Senior Project Engineer

Job description / Role

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

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior project engineer with a proven track record in leading and coordinating engineering teams to ensure the successful planning, execution, and completion of technical projects for a high-profile client.

Our clients and projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Across EMEA, our teams are providing solutions and expertise to support our growing client base, focused on combining maintenance and operations with asset management, modifications, and engineering services across the energy and materials markets.

We are focused on growth and our strategy is centered around building partnerships with our clients across the three regions: UK, Norway, and the Middle East and Africa.

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' 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:

• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones while ensuring projects are completed within budget and on schedule.
• Lead, mentor, and coordinate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, and contractors, to achieve project goals.
• Ensure technical accuracy, quality, and compliance with industry standards and regulations across all project phases.
• Identify potential risks, implement mitigation strategies, and ensure the project stays on track despite challenges.
• Act as a liaison between clients, stakeholders, and the project team, providing regular updates and addressing concerns effectively.
• Allocate resources efficiently, including manpower, materials, and equipment, to optimize project delivery.

Responsibilities

Project deliverables

• Appraises the project engineering team of the key execution principles and the contractual basis of the project
• Prepares discipline design instruction; prepares and checks project engineering manpower plans; prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes
• Interfaces with discipline managers for resources
• Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts
• Creates work share plan

HSE, quality and assurance

• Checks compliance with project quality system; able to audit projects; proactively drives team
• Ensures health, safety, environment and security (HSES) reviews are planned and implemented; supports initiatives
• Manages the development of project specific procedures
• Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer
• Development and management of schedule
• Resolves escalated delays and changes, ensures recovery plans are implemented and reviewed

Design verification

• Drives and participates in design verification; drives others to complete; understands risk and mitigation requirements

Change management

• Uses knowledge of conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management
• Understands customer needs and able to deliver customer satisfaction; actively monitors and supports initiatives
• Quantifies effects of change project wide; develops mitigation plans against change and drives change management

People management

• Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work
• Coordinates and manages inputs from large interdisciplinary team (typically 50+)
• Provides communication to project team; good at public speaking; strong in leading people to participate and contribute

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

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
• Typically requires 10 years in a project delivery environment
• Experience in mega gas processing EPC/EPCm project is required
• Deep understanding of technical work scopes and commercial aspects of projects
• Able to use conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management
• Has good working and application knowledge of specifications and standards
• Extensive experience in delivering to internal customers, including other engineering disciplines
• Familiar with change management practices and able to robustly manage change
• Has an expert knowledge of standards, procedures and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; developing skills in project and technical execution
• Expert ability in application of the procedures and work practices which define and govern engineering management and project engineering deliverables
• Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; strong positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude
• Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with third parties
• Able to manage and enhance performance and build effective team

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.