Operation Engineer

Wood; Dubai; Presencial; AED 180 000 - 280 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical Insurance

Group Life and Personal Accident

Employee Share Plan

Long Service Award

Resumo da oferta

Wood is seeking an Operations Engineer for its UAE business unit in Dubai, focusing on technical support to Operations and Maintenance activities across contracts and assets. This on-site role requires travel and reports to the Lead Operations Engineer / Operations Manager.

The role emphasizes development and implementation of O&M procedures, performance improvement, and collaboration with operations, maintenance, engineering and commercial teams to ensure safe, efficient delivery.

Qualificações

• Degree or equivalent in engineering, operations, or maintenance.
• O&M field experience is advantageous.
• MEAC region project experience (2+ years) preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical support to O&M contracts, projects and assets.
• Assist with troubleshooting, site issues, and operational improvements.
• Support development and implementation of O&M procedures and standards.
• Contribute to tender and bid documentation with technical input.
• Maintain collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet KPIs.

Conhecimentos

O&M experience

Engineering judgement

Site collaboration

Safety minded

Formação académica

Engineering degree

MEAC regional experience

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job Description

Wood is recruiting for an Operations Engineer to join its UAE business unit focusing on providing technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities across assigned contracts, assets, or project areas.

Job Description

Wood is recruiting for an Operations Engineer to join its UAE business unit focusing on providing technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities across assigned contracts, assets, or project areas.

This role is a full-time on-site role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.

Reports to

Lead Operations Engineer / Operations Manager

Responsibilities

Wood is recruiting for an Operations Engineer to join its UAE business unit focusing on providing technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities across assigned contracts, assets, or project areas.

This role is a full-time on-site role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.

Reports to

Lead Operations Engineer / Operations Manager

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The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Operations Engineer to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
• The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years' services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Job Objectives

Provides technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities across assigned contracts, assets, or project areas. The role supports safe, efficient, and compliant delivery by applying O&M field experience, discipline knowledge, and practical engineering judgement.

The Operations Engineer supports the development, review, and implementation of O&M processes, procedures, work instructions, technical standards, and performance improvement initiatives. The role also contributes to tendering and business development activity by providing discipline input, operational assumptions, technical information, and lessons learned from O&M delivery.

Contributes To Operations And Maintenance Excellence Through

• Supporting safe and reliable O&M delivery in line with HSEA expectations.
• Providing practical technical support to operations, maintenance, delivery, and plant teams.
• Assisting with the preparation, review, and improvement of O&M procedures and processes.
• Supporting tender and proposal activity by contributing technical and operational content.
• Supporting delivery against KPIs, client requirements, and assigned business objectives.
• Participating in incident reviews, technical assurance, audits, and continuous improvement activities as required.
• Supporting in contract delivery, procurement support and stakeholder engagement activities
• Engage with site personnel and support in delivery of work with site visits in MEAC regions (e.g Iraq)

Key Responsibilities

Technical Delivery

• Provide engineering support to O&M contracts, projects, and operational assets in line with agreed scopes, standards, and procedures.
• Support troubleshooting, technical queries, site issues, and operational improvement activities within own discipline area.
• Assist with performance reporting, KPI monitoring, and the identification of improvement opportunities.

Procedures And Assurance

• Support the preparation, review, update, and implementation of O&M procedures, work instructions, method statements, and supporting documentation.
• Promote compliance with company, client, regulatory, and project-specific requirements.
• Participate in audits, assurance reviews, incident investigations, and lessons-learned activities as required.

Tender And Business Support

• Support tender, proposal, and business development activities by providing O&M technical input, operational assumptions, activity descriptions, resource information, and supporting documentation.
• Contribute to bid clarifications, technical schedules, execution plans, and mobilisation planning where required.

General

• Work collaboratively with operations, maintenance, engineering, project delivery, commercial, and business development teams.
• Maintain own technical competence and keep aware of relevant O&M practices, standards, and industry developments.
• Act in accordance with company values, HSEA expectations, and ethical standards.

Working Relationships

Internal

• Work with operations, maintenance, engineering, project delivery, commercial, and business development teams to support delivery requirements.
• Maintain effective communication with discipline focal points, site teams, contract teams, and functional stakeholders.
• Support knowledge sharing across the wider O&M community and contribute lessons learned from field delivery.
• Engage with bid, tender, and proposal teams to provide technical and operational input when required.

External

• Liaise with clients, vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers where required to support technical delivery and clarification of requirements (Under Supervision)

Qualifications

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected

• Degree, or equivalent qualification in an engineering, operations, or maintenance discipline.
• Relevant O&M field experience - is advantageous
• Relevant O&M project experience in MEAC region - minimum 2 years and above

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Typically requires relevant experience in an O&M, site support, or maintenance environment and should demonstrate:
• Practical experience in operations and maintenance contr delivery.
• Understanding of O&M procedures, work instructions, technical standards, assurance requirements, and safe systems of work.
• Ability to review, update, and develop procedures and supporting technical documentation.
• Ability to support tender and proposal activities by providing practical technical input and operational delivery assumptions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear technical content.
• Ability to work collaboratively across site, contract, engineering, commercial, and business development teams.
• Basic Awareness of relevant regulatory, client, and company requirements applicable to O&M delivery.

Personal Attributes

• Practical, solutions-focused, and able to apply engineering judgement to operational issues.
• Well organised and able to manage assigned tasks to agreed deadlines.
• Collaborative and able to build eAective working relationships across diAerent teams.
• Takes initiative and follows through on actions.
• Works safely, ethically, and in line with company values.
• Ability to go site (Onshore and OAshore). Site Locations include: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, EG and other Africa Regions
• Arabic and French Speaking is advantageous

About Us

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 & 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.