General Manager

Wood; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood seeks a General Manager to lead the Iraq Joint Venture, with Dubai base and regular travel to Iraq as part of the role. The post is a senior executive slot reporting to the Managing Committee and aims to secure and deliver Maintenance, Completions, Commissioning and Brownfield projects in Iraq’s oil and gas sector.

The successful candidate will manage Wood Al Majal under the guidance of the Board, deploy processes, support annual budgeting, and drive growth while balancing operational

Qualifications

• More than 15 years of broad and extensive experience in Operations and Maintenance.
• Experience delivering OM contracts in complex brownfield environments.
• Experience in Construction and Commissioning contracts beneficial but not essential.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in Business Development and Tendering.
• Iraq experience preferred but not essential.
• Expert in stakeholder management and able to coach others.

Skills

Operations & Maintenance

Brownfield Projects

Business Development

Stakeholder Management

Contract Negotiation

Education

University degree in relevant discipline

Job description

Wood is seeking a dynamic and experienced General Manager to join our Iraq Joint Venture leadership team This is a full-time role based in Dubai UAE with regular travel to Iraq as part of the position

Job Objective

A senior role within the Wood Iraq business managing the established joint venture company with Woods long-term Iraq partner Al Majal The joint venture company is named Wood Al Majal and has been formed to combine the strengths of both partners to enter and succeed in tendering securing and delivering Maintenance Completions Commissioning Contracts and Brownfield Modifications Execution Projects within Iraq s Oil amp Gas Sector Manage Wood Al Majal business in accordance with the Business Plan and Budget under the direction and guidance of the Managing Committee Deploying procedures and processes targeting opportunities securing contracts and successfully delivering projects Provide input to annual budgets and structure the company to deliver against the targets set and agreed by the Wood Al Majal Managing Committee and Board This is a Dubai based position with regular trips into Iraq The intent would be to spend a minimum of 50 of time in Iraq and 50 in UAE to work with Managing Committee and Function Leads within Wood and joint venture partner Wood is a global leader in consulting engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors With 33 000 people in around 50 countries Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle delivering safe predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future Wood forms the Energy amp Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering design and project management companies www woodgroup com

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

University degree (bachelors or masters) in relevant discipline or equivalent combination of qualifications and experienceKnowledge, Skills, and Experience:

Typically requires more than 15 years of broad and extensive pertinent experience.Experience in delivering Operations and Maintenance Contracts in complex brownfield environments is essential.Experience in delivering Construction and Commissioning Contracts will be beneficial but not essential.Strong commercial acumen required.Experience in Business Development and Proposals/ Tendering Process is essential.Iraq experience preferred but not essential.Expert in stakeholder management with extensive experience in managing challenging stakeholders and able to coach and advise others in this area

Personal attributes:

Safety focused with an uncompromising approach to risk management. Places the welfare of both internal and customer employees at the top of the agenda. Passionately and visibly pursues, supports, demonstrates, and embeds company values. Ability to motivate, engage and influence a diverse group of people. Customer focused develops sincere and open relationships with customers, current and potential; constantly striving to exceed expectations and add value. Able to develop and maintain strong customer relationships, including ability to influence. Excellent verbal, written and presentational communication skills; able to manage sensitive communications and to communicate complex issues in simple ways. Strong influencer, negotiator, and mediator. Able to generate and apprise options, make decisions, and follow through, ensuring learnings are captured. Strong team-builder capable of identifying and adopting best practices, engendering a spirit of cooperation and energizing people towards optimum performance enabling cross functional best practice. Pragmatic in approach with a strong commercial bias and ability to balance commerciality with operational excellence. Entrepreneurial approach - ability to identify and pursue opportunities to add value to client and Wood. A motivated self-starter, who can self-direct when required, able to use own initiative to make appropriate decisions but also know when escalation is required. Critical thinker, able to interpret complex data and with strong problem-solving abilities.