What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead/Principal Mechanical Engineer position at Wood Plc?
Overview / Responsibilities
Wood is currently recruiting for a Lead/Principal Mechanical Engineer with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.
Wood is undergoing significant growth in our North Sea engineering and modifications business and we are delighted to offer a range of long-term opportunities (5 years ) across a variety of our clients and scopes. We are looking for candidates with a range of experience and skill sets, and people who have the right attitude and behaviours to enhance our services.
Please get in touch with our recruitment team who can help you through this process and support you to find your next opportunity, and a new and exciting future within Wood. We look forward to hearing from you.
Contributes to the delivery of Engineering excellence through:
- Managing and leading teams Actively participates in Competency and Training
- Providing discipline expertise to the business including Technical Authority responsibility where assigned
- Executing assigned scopes of work
- Proactive leadership of team
- Delivering against contract Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and business objective
People:
- In conjunction with the Head of Discipline, manages succession planning for direct reports
- Provides coaching and mentoring for direct reports
- Actively supports recruitment, selection, transfers and promotion of resources to meet succession and business plans
- Support the development and retention of motivated and competent people
- Ensures competence of deputies
- Manages performance of direct reports
Process Ownership:
- Continuous promotion of and, adherence to the discipline specific procedures and providing feedback for continuous improvement
- Support the development and delivery of the technical safety standard expectations and technical assurance
- Monitor compliance with competence standards
- Participate in incident investigations as required
- Represent Operations EMEA discipline in the contract
- Set performance expectations for direct reports
- Actively maintaining own competence and continuous development
Subject Matter Expertise:
- Provide discipline support to the business
- Ensuring learning opportunities are captured and realised
- Knowledge of relevant regulatory framework and legislation
- Proficient in scope definition
Skills / Qualifications
Qualifications:
- MSc, MEng or equivalent professional qualification or BSc, BEng or equivalent with extensive relevant experience
- Chartered Engineer or recognised equivalent
Minimum Experience:
- Demonstrable balance of industrial and management experience at relevant level and position
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
