Engineering Manager

Wood is currently recruiting for an Engineering Manager to join its UAE business unit focusing on execution of the engineering portion of a multi-discipline engineering scope of work and to drive the engineering team to promptly support the ongoing construction at site.

This is a full-time onsite position in Dubai, UAE, with travel requirement.

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.

Qualifications:

• ISCED Level 6 Bachelor’s (minimum) degree or Level 7 Masters (preferred) in an engineering discipline
• Chartered Engineer/Registered Professional Engineer or equivalent with a recognized professional body.

Personal attributes:

• Role models company values, behaviours, and ethics, and promotes same in others
• Significant persuasion and influencing skills
• Awareness, respect, and the ability to reconcile cultural diversity
• Pursues continuous development and progression of own skills and knowledge

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our UAE Business Unit.

Key Objectives

Responsible for the execution of the engineering portion of a 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.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Driving technical assurance.
• 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
• Identifies and mitigates areas of risk and improvement opportunities
• Identifies and pursues improvement opportunities
• Managing and leading, supporting and supervising the multidiscipline engineering team