Project Engineering Manager

Job Description

Wood is currently recruiting a Project Engineering Manager to join its UAE business unit. This is a full-time onsite position based in Dubai, UAE.

• 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 execution of the engineering portion of the multi-discipline engineering scope of work on one or more projects/work scopes. Has responsibility for coordinating and completing the various engineering, and start-up aspects of a project(s) while meeting HSSE, quality, schedule, and budget performance goals. Has responsibility for the technical excellence of the engineering portion of a project(s) across all disciplines.

• Driving technical assurance on the assigned scope(s) of work
• Managing and leading, supporting, and supervising the discipline engineering teams on the assigned scope(s) of work.
• Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities.
• Developing and retaining motivated and competent people.
• Undertaking the role of process owner.
• Driving safety by design
• Driving and leading on opportunities for innovation
• May participate directly in the design, development and inspection of technical projects or in the engineering work of the department.
• The Engineering Manager leads by example, consistently displaying and enforcing the Company's values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction.

• Continuous promotion of corporate / client-specific procedures.
• Assist in incident investigations as required.
• Monitors compliance with standards and processes to assure 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
• Managing and leading, supporting and supervising the multidiscipline engineering team

• Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate the activities and operations of a multidiscipline engineering team
• Assist in the management of recruitment, selection, transfers, performance management, succession planning and promotion of resources to meet engineering team requirements
• Ensuring appropriately resourced and competent personnel on Project/Contract
• Oversight and control of Engineering Histogram to support workforce planning
• Assist in setting & maintaining standards for the development and retention of motivated and competent people