Senior Construction Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Wood is seeking an experienced Senior Construction Engineer to join our dynamic team on a high-profile onshore gas development project located in Habshan. This role is integral to the successful execution of large-scale construction activities, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and schedule requirements in a challenging desert environment.

As a key member of the site execution team, the Senior Construction Engineer will oversee construction planning, field coordination, and contractor management across multiple disciplines. This position requires extensive experience in onshore oil and gas construction, strong leadership skills, and the ability to drive performance in a fast-paced, multi-cultural work environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Job Objective

• Provide advanced constructability input to engineering by optimizing construction knowledge and experience to reduce construction costs; improve quality, safety and productivity; shorten construction schedules; and reduce or eliminate construction inefficiencies.
• Assist with the development of the project execution plan, bid submissions, construction methodology and strategies. Provide construction technical support to the customer and the Wood discipline engineering team, throughout the FEED and detailed design phases of a project.
• Support project controls in developing the build sequence/construction schedule and proactively risk managing of the schedule. Provide input to the contracting strategy and during bid clarification process.
• Act as senior team member in the constructability team, guiding conversion of engineering designs into construction workpacks and overseeing work of others. Responsible for the delivery of construction deliverables to the required technical standards to support and facilitate site construction activities.

• Responsible for delivery of construction work packs which give clear activity breakdown and detailed narratives for all construction activities.
• Contribute discipline experience to the ongoing development of project work methods, processes and team development.
• Carry out a constructability review of all work packs, resolving minor issues and escalating more serious issues to more senior construction staff or relevant engineering discipline. This will include input at scope survey and engineering stage.
• Deliver against agreed planned work scopes ensuring obligations are met by way of timely completion of work packs.
• Provide discipline input to scope definition and execution.
• Ensure that all plant and equipment is fully certificated and controlled cost effectively.
• Ensure effective control of all material movements.
• If identified, react to change in scope, inform necessary parties and complete the necessary change management documentation.
• Check installation quality and subsequent verification are completed in accordance with requirements.
• Participate in audits and incident investigations as required.
• Contributes to assessing effectiveness of working practices and systems with a view to continuously improving systems, personal and team performance.
• Assisting with the delivery and timely execution of the project/contract/service and ensure the contract requirements are satisfied.
• Ensure quality requirements are understood and complied with and prepare quality plans and documents in accordance with the relevant project, statutory and legislative requirements.

• Bachelor degree in engineering or construction

• Appropriate level of construction experience in relevant industry sector, typically a minimum of 10 years of construction engineering experience.
• Have a broad and deep technical knowledge of construction discipline and associated processes.
• Ability to identify risk to delivery and build in mitigation / contingency plans.
• Substantial experience of interpreting discipline documentation.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of Risk Assessments (RA), Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPS) and Hazard Identification Studies (HAZIDS).
• Substantial knowledge and understanding of technical specifications.
• Understands the business drivers within customer organisations and how these can be influenced by innovative designs and cost effective solutions.

• Good interpersonal organisational, communication and team building skills.
• Safety first mindset, takes personal responsibility for safety of self and others.
• Well organised, logical and thorough in approach.
• Interaction with others requires highly developed skills to motivate, inspire and persuade.
• Uphold Wood's values & behaviours.