Head of Engineering Management

**Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.** **The Role** This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Engineering with a proven track record in leading and managing the multi discplinary engineering teams, ensuring the successful execution of projects and alignment with company goals for a high-profile client. **Our Clients and Projects** **Designing the future. Transforming the world.** Wood's Oil, Gas & New Energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe. We have experienced teams, a proven delivery model and a strong reputation. We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status-quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids and decarbonization and electrification markets. We pride ourselves in steady and predictable delivery, setting our sights on an exciting growth trajectory. Energy security, transition and supply have never been more important. You, our enabling teams, are at the very forefront of transformative projects that are providing sustainable power to generations to come. We are the ones to bring low-carbon concepts to reality. **What we can offer** * **Meaningful and interesting projects:** Delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector * **Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:** We are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business * **Competitive remuneration package:** With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market * **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 * **End of Service Gratuity:** In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit * **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 * **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 * **Energy Transition Academy:** Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems - delivered by experts in their field **The key objectives for this role are:** The Head of Engineering drives the delivery of engineering excellence in their assigned business grouping through: * Drives and assures delivery excellence in engineering across assigned business grouping. Accountable for functional management and development of engineering resources and governance of engineering practices and procedures. Provide leadership to Heads of Discipline, and have functional oversight of the performance of all engineering in their assigned business grouping * The Head of Engineering leads by example, consistently displaying and enforcing the Company’s values and behaviours, role modelling commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour and creating an inclusive work environment Engineering Delivery and Performance * Drive HSSEA culture and performance through assigned engineering group * Ensure Engineering integrity is maintained across work scopes through driving and embedding acommitment to technical excellence throughout engineering teams * Drive continual focus on process safety through the engineering function * Drive elimination of technical incidents through robust controls, incident reviews and embedding lessons learned and best practice from across the organisation in the engineering team * Ensure proposals and work scopes are resourced with suitably qualified and competent personnel in line with Company policies and procedures and customer requirements * Maximise utilisation of engineering resources to minimise non-productive time and manage overhead budget * Determines and plans for future resource and capability requirements within the Engineering functions to deliver current and future projects, preparing short and medium-term workforce plans to identify number and mix of resources required to meet demand forecast * Ensure that Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers manage their discipline scope effectively in line with company policies and procedures and within the requirements of contracts signed by clients * Establish and continuously improve engineering systems