Senior Project Engineer

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

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

Wood is recruiting for a senior project engineer to join its UAE business unit focusing on delivering the portfolio/project within schedule and budget for a major onshore brownfield project. This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced lead 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’ service of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Key Objectives

• Steward the delivery of portfolio/project within schedule and budget, with due focus on internal and external stakeholders' requirements and satisfaction
• Maintain positive customer relationships, fostering and enhancing relationship management with open, honest, and effective communications
• Establish work orders WBS structure and alignment of proposals and CTR development with an emphasis on scope development
• Ensure interface management, liaising with the client's engineering, operations, and maintenance staff from inception till close out
• Establish project performance evaluation mechanism/KPIs - baseline schedule, PMS, dashboards and regular updates of the same
• Review and input financial reports: monthly cost reports, monitoring of expenditures (VOWD/WIP), estimate to complete (ETC)
• Ensure engineering, procurement, and construction are being executed as per the schedule and budget
• Liaison with engineering disciplines and document controls for generation and maintenance of deliverable register (MDR)
• Oversee LLI procurements (MR, TBEs, vendor documents, delivery) are being done as per plan and budgets
• Establish excellent working relationships with construction contractors in country, ensure adequate reporting mechanisms are in place
• Identify potential risks associated, flag those for impact assessment and explore mitigatory measures
• Review and approve progress reports and milestone invoices from various vendors and endorse to register it in the system
• Coordinate preparation and submission of final documentation dossier
• Prepare project close out report, secure approvals and handing over
• Manage resourcing trends and forecasts across the portfolio and address re-allocation and mobilization requirements upfront
• Generate contracting and tendering strategies and plan, coordinate and assist ITT preparations, administer bid evaluation process
• Ensure day-to-day operations maintain a continued alignment with overall corporate policy, strategy, and direction
• Interactions with the project sponsor and customer, regularly reviews and reports project progress to senior management and/or the sponsor and customer
• Support in recruitment, selection, and development of talent, ensuring performance standards to achieve continuous performance improvement
• Assist leadership and peers to improve delivery performance. Recognize customer needs beyond the immediate scope and maximize delivery opportunities throughout wider business where required

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:

• Degree qualification in an engineering discipline
• Minimum of 10+ years project engineering experience in the oil and gas industries
• Professional accreditation from recognized institute (preferable)
• Middle East experience (preferable)

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.