Lead Project Engineer

Job Description

Wood is currently recruiting for a Lead Project Engineer to join our team in Sharjah, UAE. This is a full time onsite position with business trips

Responsibilities

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

Wood is currently recruiting for a Lead Project Engineer to join our team in Sharjah, UAE. This is a full time onsite position with business trips

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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 is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region

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’ services of our employees at 5-year service milestones
  
  

Key Objectives

Supports delivery of engineering excellence in their assigned project(s) through tactical leadership of an assigned project engineering team from a commercially astute position, utilising good coordination and sound technical skills. Manages and drives completion of the engineering deliverables for an assigned project to schedule and in accordance with applicable procedures, specifications and standards, focused on both internal and external customer satisfaction.

• Oversees a team of project engineers to coordinate a complex series of activities performed by engineers, designers and others from multiple engineering disciplines or departments.
• Schedule oversight, planning and resource forecasting for engineering activities relating to the project
• Ensures accurate and timely delivery of work, to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers.
• Alerts Project Manager in the event of potential delays or change; identifies and implements change
• Coordinates and assures technical excellence of interdisciplinary project deliverables
• Coordinates, guides and mentors other Project Engineers in the management of work scope
• Manages interfaces between engineering disciplines to ensure the successful delivery of assigned work.
• Takes a lead role in planning engineering work, verification of design, and assuring compliance with quality and HSE requirement
  
  

Key Accountabilities And Responsibilities

Project Deliverables

• Oversees a team which manages and coordinates engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centres including workshare / high value engineering centres
• 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.
• Prepares and checks Project Engineering Manpower Plans.
• Interfaces with discipline managers for resources
• Prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes
• 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.
  
  

Quality, HSE 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

• Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts.
• Resolves escalated delays and changes, ensures recovery plans are implemented and reviewed.
• Creates work share plan.
  
  

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
  
  

Working Relationships

Internal

• Daily interaction with engineering resources and leadership
• Closely liaise with workshare centres
• Regularly interface with operational and functional leadership
• Maintain effective communication with all relevant parties including Client, Department Management, Partners and Project Leadership team to manage resolution of areas of concern, lessons learnt and continuous improvement strategies for assigned project scope
  
  

External

• Lead project engineering interface between the Wood and Client engineering teams for assigned project scope
  
  

Level of Influence and Decision Making Authority

• Work is performed under minimal supervision and general direction and is reviewed for conformance with policies and general efficiency
• Actions and decisions typically have a significant influence on the medium-term technical, and financial results of a project
• Errors may have significant impact on profitability and customer relations
• Assistance is provided with unusual situations that do not have clear goals
• Keeps manager informed of progress, potentially controversial matters or far-reaching implications
• Supervises and coordinates work of a large group of engineers and other technical staff
• Provides coaching in problem solving, creative thinking and project planning skills to less experienced staff
• Regularly provides functional supervision, i.e. assists, trains, reviews work of less experience project engineers
• Responsible for accuracy and timelines of work produced by assigned team
  
  

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

Qualifications:

• ISCED Level 6 Bachelor’s (minimum) degree or Level 7 Masters (preferred) in an engineering discipline
• Professional Engineer or engineering chartership preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent qualification preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Incumbents typically require significant (10 years+) broad relevant industry project execution experience, preferably with construction site experience
• 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
• Able to lead Project Engineering team; able to manage between Engineering Discipline Groups
• 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 teams
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Has focus on customer satisfaction for both internal and external customers and actively seeks feedback
• Able to drive project area to completion, taking ownership for all that occurs within it
• Actively looks to develop skills; monitors work done by others and provides positive feedback to improve
• Able to adapt to changing priorities
• Good communicator verbally and in written form
• Strong planning, organising and execution skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Works effectively as a member of a team
• Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change
• Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate
• Empowers people, leads by example, recognises and rewards good performance
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
• Good at public speaking; strong in motivating people to participate and contribute
• Strong planning, organising and execution skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Works effectively as a member of a team
• Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change
• Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate
• Empowers people, leads by example, recognises and rewards good performance
• Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
• Good at public speaking; strong in motivating people to participate and contribute.
  
  

About Us

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.