Engineering Manager (EOI)

Wood (trading locally as WOOD KSS LLP) is currently sourcing for Engineering Manager (Expression of interest) to join our team in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

• Responsible for functional management, management of resourcing and forecasting, development of discipline engineering resources and governance of discipline practices and procedures within the company
• Provide leadership to Discipline Leads, and have functional oversight of the performance of all discipline engineering in their assigned grouping
• Support and drive engineering excellence across wider organisation
• Support BD opportunities as required

Contributes to delivery of engineering excellence through:

• Driving technical assurance on the assigned scope(s) of work
• Managing and leading, supporting; and supervising the discipline; engineering teams on the assigned scope(s) of work
• Anagement of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities
• Developing and retaining motivated and competent people
• Undertaking the role of process owner
• Driving safety by design
• Driving and leading on opportunities for innovation
• May participate directly in the design, development and inspection of technical projects or in the engineering work of the department
• The Engineering Manager leads by example, consistently displaying and enforcing the Company’s values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe and reliable operations and client satisfaction

Driving technical assurance:

• Continuous promotion of corporate / client specific procedures
• Assist in incident investigations as required
• Monitors compliance with standards and processes to assure delivery
• Roll out and Implementation of learning opportunities from across the business
• Driving continual focus on process safety through the engineering team
• Driving elimination of technical incidents through robust controls, incident reviews and embedding lessons learned
• Identifies and mitigates areas of risk and improvement opportunities
• Identifies and pursues improvement opportunities

Managing and leading, supporting and supervising the multidiscipline engineering team

• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the activities and operations of a multidiscipline engineering team
• Assist in the management of recruitment, selection, transfers, performance management, succession planning and promotion of resources to meet engineering team requirements
• Ensuring appropriately resourced and competent personnel on Project/Contract
• Oversight and control of Engineering Histogram to support workforce planning
• Assist in setting & maintaining standards for the development and retention of motivated and competent people

Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities:

• Manage and direct resources efficiently and effectively
• Consult and negotiate with clients to prepare specifications, explain proposals and present engineering reports and findings
• Assign, co-ordinate and review the technical work of the department or project teams
• Focuses on managerial concerns of the project such as cost, completion date, and resource allocation. Provides expert resolution of issues and monitors integration of work
• Reviews technical concepts of major projects
• Personally participates in solving difficult technical problems
• Resolves conflicts that are complex and manages divergent audience
• Resolves issues which are non-recurring and occasionally novel
• Assist in identifying and requesting functional support to projects / contracts as required

Undertaking the role of process owner:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate across the business interfaces
• Engage with business / functional community and promote the function including: networking / knowledge sharing
• Interactions with Heads of Disciplines, Head of Engineering to ensure resourcing of competent personnel

Internal:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate across the business interfaces
• Engage with business / functional community and promote the function including: networking / knowledge sharing
• Interactions with Heads of Disciplines, Head of Engineering to ensure resourcing of competent personnel

External:

• Communicate and co-operate with external stakeholders including
• Industry bodies, academia, vendors, clie