
Wood Plc GCC
Senior Project Engineer
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 04/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
20/11/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
04/01/2026
Job description
The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for stewarding the delivery of a major onshore brownfield project within defined schedule and budget, supporting FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases for enhancements to degassing stations, flare system optimization, and integration of low-carbon solutions. The role oversees alignment of Work Orders and WBS structures, ensures proposals and CTRs reflect accurate scope development, leads interface management with client engineering, operations and maintenance teams, establishes and updates performance evaluation mechanisms including baseline schedules, PMS, dashboards, and KPIs, and inputs into monthly cost reports covering expenditures, VOWD, WIP, and ETC. Responsibilities include ensuring engineering, procurement and construction execution remains aligned with plan, coordinating with engineering disciplines and document control to maintain MDR and deliverable registers, overseeing LLI procurement processes including MR, TBEs, vendor documentation, and delivery tracking, and sustaining strong working relationships with construction contractors. The position reviews and approves progress reports and milestone invoices, coordinates preparation of final documentation dossiers, and drives project close-out reporting. Additional scope includes managing resource trends and forecasts, developing contracting and tendering strategies, coordinating ITT preparation, administering bid evaluation processes, maintaining operational alignment with corporate policies, reporting progress to sponsors and senior management, and supporting talent recruitment, development, and performance management. The engineer ensures risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated, while recognizing broader customer needs and supporting delivery improvement across the wider business.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Manage delivery of project portfolio within schedule and budget while ensuring stakeholder satisfaction
- Establish Work Orders, WBS structures, and align proposal and CTR development with project scope
- Lead interface management with client engineering, operations and maintenance teams from inception to close-out
- Develop project performance mechanisms including baseline schedules, PMS, KPIs and dashboards, and update regularly
- Review monthly cost reports and monitor expenditures including VOWD, WIP and ETC
- Ensure engineering, procurement and construction activities adhere to schedule and budget requirements
- Liaise with engineering disciplines and document control to maintain MDR and deliverable registers
- Oversee LLI procurement including MR, TBEs, vendor documentation and delivery tracking
- Manage construction contractor relationships and ensure effective reporting mechanisms
- Identify risks, escalate impacts, and determine mitigation measures
- Review and approve vendor progress reports and milestone invoices
- Coordinate preparation and submission of final project documentation dossiers
- Prepare project close-out reports and secure required approvals
- Manage resource forecasts and reallocation plans across portfolio
- Develop contracting and tendering strategies, support ITT preparation and manage bid evaluations
- Ensure project operations align with corporate policy and strategy
- Report project progress to sponsors and senior leadership
- Support recruitment, development and performance management of team members
- Recognize additional customer needs and support delivery improvements across the business
Experience & skills
- Degree qualification in an Engineering discipline
- Minimum 10+ years of project engineering experience in the oil and gas industry
- Experience with onshore brownfield projects including FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning
- Professional accreditation from a recognized institute (preferred)
- Middle East project experience (preferred)
- Experience in cost control, WBS development, CTR creation and project performance evaluation
- Strong capability in risk management, interface management and contractor coordination
- Ability to manage procurement processes including LLI materials, TBEs and vendor documentation
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience preparing close-out documentation and supporting tendering and bid evaluation processes