Wood Plc GCC
Lead Project Engineer
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 15 - 20 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 01/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
17/08/2025
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
15 - 20 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
01/10/2025
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Project Engineer with a proven track record in leading and coordinating engineering teams to ensure the successful planning, execution, and completion of technical projects for a high-profile client. Wood's Oil, Gas & New Energies business has a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects globally. The role offers the chance to work on meaningful projects, collaborate with experts worldwide, and contribute to energy security and transition initiatives.
Required skills
project engineering management
multidiscipline coordination
mechanical engineering
gas processing epc
epcm project delivery
contract management
design verification
change management
hse compliance
quality assurance
schedule management
workshare planning
resource planning
epc standards
risk mitigation
Key responsibilities
- Oversees a team which manages and coordinates engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centers including workshare / high value engineering centers.
- Appraises the Project Engineering team of the key execution principles and the contractual basis of the project.
- Prepares Discipline Design Instruction; prepares and checks Project Engineering Manpower Plans, prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes.
- Interfaces with discipline managers for resources.
- Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts.
- Creates work share plan.
- Checks compliance with Project Quality System; able to audit projects; proactively drives team.
- Ensures Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) reviews are planned and implemented; supports initiatives.
- Manages the development of project specific procedures.
- Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer.
- Resolves escalated delays and changes, ensures recovery plans are implemented and reviewed.
- Drives and participates in Design Verification; drives others to complete; understands risk and mitigation requirements.
- Uses knowledge of conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management.
- Quantifies effects of change project wide; develops mitigation plans against change and drives change management.
- Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work.
- Coordinates and manages inputs from large interdisciplinary team (typically 50+).
- Provides communication to project team; good at public speaking; strong in leading people to participate and contribute.
Experience & skills
- Oversees a team which manages and coordinates engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centers including workshare / high value engineering centers.
- Appraises the Project Engineering team of the key execution principles and the contractual basis of the project.
- Prepares Discipline Design Instruction; prepares and checks Project Engineering Manpower Plans, prepares multidiscipline contract requisition scopes.
- Interfaces with discipline managers for resources.
- Creates and implements work plan for discipline and inter-discipline interfaces; identifies key dates, milestones and deliverables, drives for completion; manages forecasts.
- Creates work share plan.
- Checks compliance with Project Quality System; able to audit projects; proactively drives team.
- Ensures Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) reviews are planned and implemented; supports initiatives.
- Manages the development of project specific procedures.
- Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer.
- Resolves escalated delays and changes, ensures recovery plans are implemented and reviewed.
- Drives and participates in Design Verification; drives others to complete; understands risk and mitigation requirements.
- Uses knowledge of conditions of contract to support decisions on schedules, key milestones and change management.
- Quantifies effects of change project wide; develops mitigation plans against change and drives change management.
- Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work.
- Coordinates and manages inputs from large interdisciplinary team (typically 50+).
- Provides communication to project team; good at public speaking; strong in leading people to participate and contribute.
