Engineering Manager
- Sharjah
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- Responsible for the oversight and assurance of multi-discipline engineering scope of work on a portfolio of Brownfield projects on an onshore Oil and Gas Field.
- Responsible for ensuring that the engineering carried out is completed in line with clients' requirements, Processes, Procedures and Specifications and in line with established International Engineering standards.
- Responsible for the technical excellence of the engineering portion of a project across all disciplines.
- Continuous implementation and assurance of client specific procedures in the Engineering Design.
- Monitors compliance with standards and processes to assure efficient 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
- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the activities and operations of the client and contractors engineering team
- Consult and negotiate with client to prepare specifications, explain proposals and present engineering reports and findings
- Assign, co-ordinate 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 projects.
- Personally participates in solving difficult technical problems.
- Carries responsibility for resolution of major problems for the engineering segment of Brownfield Upgrade Projects
- Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the engineering and technical work performed within the team
- Conduit for regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives and industry technology developments
- Engineering degree or equivalent
- Typically requires 18+ years progressive experience in (Process Engineering) and (Piping Engineering) typically requires more than 5 years of broad and extensive engineering management experience.
- Requires strong technical skill as relevant to the project scope, with particular emphasis on Brownfield Engineering Upgrades in an onshore Oil and Gas Field.
- Iraq Project Experience is required
- Balance of technical and management experience at relevant level and position.
- 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
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing people at all levels of the organization.
- 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 audit and incident investigations
- Good Project management skills.
- Skilled in mediation and dispute resolution
- Financial and commercial awareness.
- Candidates must be willing to travel to Basra, Iraq