Lead Process Engineer - Systems Integration

Wood PLC; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood PLC is seeking a Head of Process Engineering Discipline to lead the Process function within their Systems Integration EMEA business. This hybrid role involves managing a high-performing team, driving engineering excellence, and delivering significant projects across the energy sector. Candidates should possess a relevant engineering degree and extensive experience in automation and controls.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Competitive remuneration package

Flexible benefits package

Commitment to continued professional development

Global connections with industry experts

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive experience in engineering delivery across automation and controls projects.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering excellence ensuring timely and quality delivery across projects.
• Manage recruitment, workforce planning, and development of the engineering team.
• Deliver predictable outcomes for a significant portfolio of projects.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering discipline

Master's degree in relevant engineering discipline

Tools

Process Simulation

P&ID Development

Process Optimisation

Job description

Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a Head of Process Engineering Discipline to drive the performance and ensure best practice standards across the Process function for the Systems Integration (SI) EMEA business, within our Digital Consulting business Unit.

This is a hybrid role which can be based out of any of the following UK offices: Aberdeen, Glasgow, Northampton, Staines, or Reading.

Please note applicants must be able to pass HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check.

The Role

An exciting opportunity to truly shape and influence the way we work in SI EMEA to offer a value adding difference to the business and client base. We have a large rolling wave of pipeline work of greater than £50M per annum, with multiple high profile blue chip clients, coupled with growth strategies to enter market areas such as Pharmaceutical and the Middle East. Whilst competing in these competitive markets, we need to become ever more efficient, utilising digital tools and innovative process to achieve our performance delivery targets.

You will work collaboratively within a high performing team of discipline engineers, offering your team the ability to participate and contribute to making EMEA SI a fully engaged and successfully recognised best practise team of key talent.

Reporting into the Technical director for SI EMEA you will drive engineering excellence ensuring timely and quality delivery across all projects with your remit.

As the Leader of the Process Engineering discipline, you will be responsible for all aspects of resource management including; recruitment, workforce planning, development and coaching of your team; ensuring high performance delivery and an inclusive and collaborative culture.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Principal / Lead process engineer with some supervisionary experience who is looking for an opportunity to manage and develop a team and enable growth within a fast paced engineering environment.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Our Systems Integration (SI) team, work with a variety of high-profile clients across the energy sector. Delivering bespoke essential automation and control solutions that enable a safer and more efficient operation.

Within SI, we are architecting our clients' digital ecosystems to be inherently safe, cybersecure and operable. Within our teams we integrate client source systems across their IT, Operational Technology (OT) environments, securely pushing OT data into IT systems as a foundation for transformation.

We design and integrate operational technology to achieve business, production and operational goals.

Visit our web page to find out more about the exciting work we do: Automation & systems integration | Wood

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
• Competitive remuneration package with regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), plus the potential for one additional 'flex day' per month. Further benefits include a generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
• 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

Responsibilities

Key Objectives for this role:

• Delivers predictable outcomes for a significant portfolio of projects within Si EMEA, looking to grow from £50M annum to > £100M / annum revenue
• To work as a key member of a high performing project engineering leadership team to transition the EMEA SI portfolio to a best-in-class project/programme/portfolio performance excellence status. This operating model being an enabler to support Gross Margin(GM) growth across the Business unit (BU)
• A highly collaborative approach to the management of a functional discipline to achieve the needs of the business. It is essential to work seamlessly with the other engineering discipline leads, and project management community to make for a cohesive EMEA SI delivery focused function
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the anticipated levels of pressure and high performance with a job profile of this nature
• Ability to challenge the norm and enhance/develop/deploy a suite of digital tools to ensure effective use of data and resources is a key deliverable for the role

Qualifications

Skills And Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

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:

• ISCED Level 6 /Bachelors (minimum) or Level 7 /Masters (preferred) degree in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent professional experience
• Knowledge & understanding across these fields:
  • Focused on Process Industries
  • Process Simulation
  • P&ID Development
  • Process Optimisation
  • FMEA
• Extensive broad and deep experience of engineering delivery across automation and controls projects in one or more relevant industry sectors
• Expert level experience and understanding of discipline engineering tools and processes
• Proven previous experience working within a fast-paced project environment
• Broad understanding of the business drivers for relevant industry sector clients
• Excellent stakeholder management skills at all levels of the business internal and external
• Previous experience in managing a team of discipline engineers at all levels
• Leads on recruitment and selection and sets tone for culture within team significantly impacts on performance, engagement, productivity and retention of discipline engineering resources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven Leadership and influencing skills
• Delivery Focused
• Structured and organised work ethic
• Embrace high performing team principles
• Questioning attitude with excellent problem-solving skills

Desirable

• Chartership with relevant professional body / Professional Engineer License or equivalent
• A network of contacts across Wood is preferred

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.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.