Job Description

Head of Department - Instrumentation - ABU020C Company : Worley Primary Location : ARE-AD-Abu Dhabi City Job : Instrumentation and Controls Schedule : Full-time Employment Type : Employee Job Level : Experienced Job Posting : Dec 8, 2024 Unposting Date : Ongoing Reporting Manager Title : Director Engineering
: Building on our past. Ready for the future



Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We're bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.


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. Maintains pricing records reflecting the effort to complete discipline activities.
• May support proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating and 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 manages discipline operations to the budget.
• Controls discipline staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures.
• Oversees engineering software licensing costs, employee usage, and skill development.
• Creates and maintains discipline 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 discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.


Technical Competency


• Owns discipline technical competency and quality programs and oversees technical competency of those within the discipline.
• 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.
• Appoints senior "known and trusted" team members to conduct checking and perform technical peer reviews and manages the execution of them.


Project Execution


• Facilitates meeting project requirements through the use of discipline 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 direct reports


Decision Making


• Makes discipline management decisions under the general direction of the Location Manager of Engineering.
• Manages 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


• Works with self-initiated interaction with supervisor and self-initiated technical guidance.
• Influence over duties. Receives administrative direction based on organization policies and objectives.
• Work is reviewed to ensure conformity with policy and for coordination of other company functions or groups.


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 discipline tools.
• Conversant in the interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modeling, and cross-discipline data centric methods


Systems & Tools (Desirable)


• Competent in Microsoft Access and Visio.


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.


Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Essential)


• Has a strong background in discipline work, and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices.
• Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content.
• Adept at budgeting and cost control.
• Must have experience in similar discipline and minimum years in project leadership


Job Specific Knowledge / Experience (Desirable)


• Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.


Moving forward together



We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.



We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.



And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.



Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.