Wood Plc GCC
Senior Technical Safety Engineer
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 03/11/2025
Job overview
Date posted
19/09/2025
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
03/11/2025
Job description
Wood is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Technical Safety Engineer as part of our Process team within our Oil, Gas & New Energies business based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Due to the nature of the projects and client expectation, the position will be full time office based in Abu Dhabi. The role requires leading and executing site safety assessments, developing and maintaining safety control points, ensuring compliance with project safety specifications and industry regulations, managing safety documentation, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless project execution.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Discipline engineer in one or more integrated in-house / contractor teams handling multiple project responsibilities
- Execute technical work for FEED and Detailed Designs (designs, specifications, drawings, etc.) within designated CTR scopes
- Maintain excellent HSE performance throughout the engineering phase of the project life cycle
- Implement, practice and monitor Quality Management System (QMS) in FEED office projects in line with ISO 9001-2015 and API Q2 2nd edition requirements
- Carry out appropriate discipline and inter-discipline checks and reviews of engineering and design work
- Contribute to the development of execution contracting strategies that compliment designs, construction methods and operating methods
- Remain engaged in design issues and decisions throughout construction, commissioning and start-up
- Create demonstrable value for customers by understanding their drivers and critical success factors
- Capture/apply internal and external learnings and incorporate improvements
- Deliver continuously improving performance, benchmarked as top tier in the industry
- Time write correctly each week
- Ensure own discipline engineering and design work are successfully delivered and appropriate reviews conducted
- Ensure quality of technical work and the technical integrity, functionality, constructability, safe operation and reliability of designs
- Involved in multiple engineering reviews and provide sound design inputs
- Contribute to excellent HSE performance throughout the engineering phase of the project life cycle
- Maintain effective interfaces and relationships within/between disciplines, and peers in other EP Projects teams and Assets
- Emphasize on development of young TSE engineers
- Provide guidance and advice on Technical Safety matters in a consistent manner in line with that agreed within the team
Experience & skills
- Minimum 12 years of experience (8 years in oil & gas and 4 years in FEED/Engineering)
- Bachelor in Engineering degree or equivalent
- Experience in the Middle East is preferred
- Be a team player where recognition of team performance as a whole is a greater priority than projecting individual contribution
- Be able to work in a team environment and handle multiple project responsibilities
- Assuring that work and project promises are successfully delivered and appropriate reviews have been conducted
- Establishing and maintaining engineering processes, systems and tools (software)
