
Wood Plc GCC
Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer
- Permanent
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 14/02/2026
Job overview
Date posted
31/12/2025
Location
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
14/02/2026
Job description
The Senior Instrumentation & Control Engineer role at Woodâs UAE Business Unit is a full-time, office-based position in Sharjah with required business travel. The role contributes to the delivery of engineering excellence across complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects, primarily supporting operations in Iraq and the wider GCC region. The position involves executing assigned scopes of work, providing discipline expertise, solving complex instrumentation and control engineering problems, and delivering high-quality engineering deliverables in compliance with applicable industry codes, standards, regulatory frameworks, and HSSE requirements. The role may function as a primary discipline engineer or technical authority on small to medium complexity projects and requires mature professional knowledge across planning, execution, and coordination of engineering tasks. Responsibilities span Pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed engineering phases, participation in audits, site visits, design reviews, incident investigations, and proposal support, while also supervising and mentoring less senior engineers and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, clients, vendors, and external stakeholders.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Execute assigned instrumentation and control engineering scopes of work in accordance with project requirements, schedules, and budgets
- Direct preparation and review of engineering documentation, calculations, and drawings in compliance with industry codes and standards
- Participate in defining engineering approaches, planning, scheduling, and coordination of complex engineering assignments
- Evaluate engineering problems, organize investigations, and establish performance specifications for systems, equipment, and processes
- Perform and check complex instrumentation and control engineering tasks on major oil and gas projects
- Participate in site visits, project review meetings, design reviews, workshops, audits, and incident investigations as required
- Provide discipline expertise by developing innovative technical solutions and applying mature professional judgment
- Serve as a technical leader or significant contributor on complex instrumentation and control engineering challenges
- Provide technical input and support to project proposals and business development activities
- Supervise and support task delegation to engineering teams, including mentoring and development of less experienced engineers
- Assist with managerial tasks including resource planning, scheduling, budgeting, and coordination of engineering work
- Coordinate activities of engineering and design groups on small projects and manage cost, schedule, and risk where assigned
- Ensure compliance with HSSE, site safety, office safety, and technical/design safety requirements
- Maintain productive internal and external working relationships with project teams, clients, vendors, industry bodies, and academia
Experience & skills
- B.Sc. or equivalent degree in an Engineering discipline from an accredited university
- Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience in major Brownfield oil and gas projects, including at least 5 years in a similar role
- Demonstrated experience across Pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed engineering phases
- Specific experience in oil and gas projects within the GCC region preferred
- Professional-level knowledge of applicable instrumentation and control codes, standards, processes, and procedures
- Proficiency in relevant engineering software and calculation templates
- Demonstrated ability to guide, mentor, and motivate professional engineering specialists
- Strong project planning, scheduling, and coordination capabilities
- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks, legislation, and industry technology developments
- High level of commitment to safety, quality, and continuous professional development