Director, Engineering

General Purpose of Role Provides engineering oversight to a team of discipline managers. Accountable for leading team members including their ongoing development and their assignment on projects in compliance with company requirements. Write something about that this is about operational roles, it covers.

Key Accountabilities

Business Development Support

Assists business development activities by facilitating the maintenance of personal profiles and resumes, tracking existing capabilities, and strategically addressing future customer capability requirements. Encourages positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors. May be involved in networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts. Stewards the maintenance of pricing records reflecting the effort to complete discipline activities. May support proposals by developing the engineering execution strategy, reviewing costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead part or all of a proposal.

Business Operations

Participates in budgeting and manage engineering operations to the budget. Controls engineering staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures. Administers engineering software licensing and costs. Creates and maintains engineering guidelines. Ensures mentoring/training requirements are met. Manages the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Contributes to dispute resolution efforts. Ensures cross-discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements. Ensures resource allocation and utilisation.

Technical Competency

Owns engineering technical competency and quality programs and oversees technical competency of those within the location. Ensures team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports global standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates and oversees use by the team. Assures the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Stewards discipline checking and technical peer reviews.

Project Execution

Facilitates meeting project requirements through the use of engineering guidelines, programs, and management of the resources allocated to projects. May participate in project execution strategy and planning. Drives innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. May work with Project Management Teams to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Reviews and authorizes work done by Discipline Managers.

Global Level Details

Global Level Summary

Operational leaders implementing strategies within a complex area requiring a broad grasp of practices or principles in a highly specialized field or in cross-functional setting. Generally, manage work through others. Will have a high degree of autonomy operating within general management direction and functional policies.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Essential) Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local engineering governing body where required by law.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Desirable)

Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential) Has a strong understanding of cross-discipline work, interfaces, and sequencing. Well versed in engineering governance, project execution, and fiscal management. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Adept at budgeting and cost control.

• Typically has 15 years of relevant discipline and multi-discipline experience, 5 years in project leadership, and/or 5 years as a Discipline Manager.
  
  

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable) Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.

Decision Making

Make engineering management decisions under the general direction of the Location Manager/Director. Manages cross-discipline resource mobilization and demobilization to maintain sufficient resourcing and ensure cost effectiveness. Accountable for the performance of the team, discipline risks, and driving continuous improvement. Responsible for discipline planning, budgeting, and approval of expenditures. Implements approved discipline programs in accordance with budget and company policy.

Supervision Received

• Operates with broad management authority. Limited only by general objectives and policies of the organization. Work is reviewed to ensure company direction meets company vision and mission.
  
  

Supervision Authority

Discipline Managers in the location.

Communication

Effectively communicate and present complex proposals and reports to senior level management. Ability to persuade and influence others. Participative management style with a cooperative team approach.

Systems & Tools (Essential)

Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint. Can organize information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies. Has functional awareness of cross-discipline tools. Experienced in coordinating the establishment/use of integrated tools and delivering the benefits of data centric engineering.

Systems & Tools (Desirable)

Competent in relevant multi-disciplinary software suites.

HSE Capability

Assume hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements. Drive Safe and Sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL. Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance.

People Skills

Interpersonal: Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.

Teamwork: Enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.

Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”

Intellectual Capacity: Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.

Qualifications, Accreditation, Training (Desirable)

Training in risk management or quality.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential) Has a strong understanding of cross-discipline work, interfaces, and sequencing. Well versed in engineering governance, project execution, and fiscal management. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Adept at budgeting and cost control.

3B- Typically has 15 years of relevant discipline and multi-discipline experience, 5 years in project leadership, and/or 5 years as a Discipline Manager.

Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable) Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.

Company

Worley

Primary Location

ZAF-GT-Johannesburg

Job

Engineering and Design (General)

Schedule

Full-time

Employment Type

Employee

Job Level

Executive

Job Posting

Jul 9, 2024

Unposting Date

Jul 16, 2024

Reporting Manager Title

Vice President - Sub-Saharan Africa

• MEA and APAC, Corporate, Executive Management