Lead Construction Engineer

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Job description

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is currently recruiting for a Lead Construction Engineer with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry. This role will require regular trips to site in Norway.

Contributes to delivery of Construction excellence by:

• Progressing upon a development pathway towards becoming an experienced Manager within the Construction technical discipline.
• Executing assigned scopes of work in a timely manner and within Key Performance Indicator (KPI) schedules.
• Providing discipline expertise to the business.
• Delivering and actively promoting the Wood core values, policies and procedures.
• Displaying significant understanding of Wood Client systems and processes.
• Driving safety leadership and ensuring safe delivery of multi-discipline work scopes.
• Reviewing planned activities for constructability, providing accurate feedback.
• Executing assigned scopes of work as a role model for reports.
• Providing technical expertise and guidance on all construction related activities.
• Managing and leading all construction reports to ensure delivery against milestones and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).

Skills / Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Time served relevant trade discipline or relevant NVQ/SVQ/HNC/HND.

Minimum Experience:

• Relevant construction experience.
• Oil and gas experience is advantageous or proven track record in industry with transferable skills.
• Exposure to working within a technical environment.
• Experience of people management.
• Lead R&R
• Must have onshore refinery experience
• Must have deputized for site manager
• Black trade oriented but with white trade experience/knowledge
• Willing to travel and work in Norway
• Able to liaise with the client in absence of site manager

Role-Specific Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal organisational, communication and team building skills.
• Computer literate.
• Fully conversant with regards to discipline technical knowledge.
• Proven experience of interpreting discipline documentation.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of Risk Assessments (RA), Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPS) and Hazard Identification Studies (HAZIDS).
• Ability to work with timelines / targets.
• Display both good judgment and leadership qualities.
• Ability to manage and supervise personnel.
• Ability to be assertive and drive culture change when required.
• Ability to interrogate work packs.

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world's most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

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.