Principal Piping Designer

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Job description

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood is currently recruiting for a Principal Piping Designer for a staff role with extensive experience in the oil and gas petrochemical industry.

Contributing to the delivery of Engineering excellence through:

• Managing and leading teams
• Definition and approval of technical scopes
• Provide technical expertise to the business
• Executing assigned scopes of work
• 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:

• Adhere to and comply with relevant discipline specific procedures and provide feedback for continuous improvement
• Monitor compliance with competence standards
• Participate in incident investigations as required
• Set performance expectations for direct reports
• Technically competent in own discipline and actively maintains own competence according to standards and pursues continuous professional development
• Provide discipline support to the business
• Ensuring learning opportunities are captured and realized
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory framework and legislation
• Proficient in scope definition

General:

• Deputizing for lead as required
• Supporting and supervising tasks delegated to direct reports / respective team
• Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities
• Manage and direct resources efficiently and effectively
• Interact with multi - discipline Engineering teams

Skills / Qualifications

• HNC / HND or equivalent professional qualification with extensive relevant experience.
• Minimum Experience:
• Demonstrable balance of industrial experience at relevant level and position

Role - Specific Skills:

Intellectually capable, can substantiate the ability to apply theory in a practical context

Professional demeanor, interpersonal skills

Able to demonstrate team working skills

Enthusiastic, conscientious and keen to learn

Flexible with a can - do attitude

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.