Lead Civil and Structural
Wood
Date: 1 day ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time

Role Purpose
JOB DESCRIPTION
To prepare competitive and technically compliant tenders and proposals in response to client inquiries, ensuring alignment with company capabilities, commercial strategy, and client requirements.
For a key project, the opportunity will be provided to transition to the Engineering team upon award.
Responsibilities
Skills & Competencies:
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. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
JOB DESCRIPTION
To prepare competitive and technically compliant tenders and proposals in response to client inquiries, ensuring alignment with company capabilities, commercial strategy, and client requirements.
For a key project, the opportunity will be provided to transition to the Engineering team upon award.
Responsibilities
- Tender Preparation:
- Analyse tender documents (RFPs, RFQs, ITTs) and identify key requirements for your discipline.
- Coordinate with other Engineering disciplines and other functions where there is a requirement to ensure alignment and common strategy for submission.
- Identify clarifications in line with the tender timescales.
- Prepare technical and commercial proposals, including CTR’s, technical write-up, qualifications, input to schedule
- Ensure timely submission of tenders in accordance with client deadlines.
- Ensure that tendering material is kept up to date and accurate, to represent the company strategy and values.
- Technical & Commercial Evaluation:
- Conduct risk assessments and identify deviations or clarifications.
- Liaise with suppliers and subcontractors for quotations and technical data.
- Support through Wood approval process as required.
- Support negotiations and post-tender clarifications with clients.
- Documentation & Compliance:
- Ensure all tender documentation is complete, accurate, and aligned with client specifications.
- Maintain records of submitted tenders and track outcomes for continuous improvement.
- Stakeholder Coordination:
- Collaborate with internal departments (engineering, finance, legal, etc.) to ensure proposal accuracy.
- Attend pre-bid meetings, site visits, and client presentations when required.
Skills & Competencies:
- Have a mindset to challenge the norm: Identify innovative and efficient solutions to provide value to our clients
- Continuous improvement: Gathering best practice and lessons learned to ensure that we offer the best solutions to our clients
- Risk Awareness: Identify and understand the risks associated with the tender, assess and manage to ensure that the impact can be clearly articulated to Senior Management prior to submission.
- Commercial Awareness: Have a high-level commercial awareness to support the submission of accurate, competitive and compliant bids,
- Strong understanding of engineering principles and project execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Ability to effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Functionally reporting line to the Head of Discipline / Engineering Manager
- Contract reporting line to the Proposals Project Manager
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. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
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