Regional Engineering Manager - Europe & Africa

EnerMech; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EnerMech is seeking an experienced Regional Engineering Manager to lead the Europe & Africa engineering function across Energy Solutions and Infrastructure & Industrial Solutions. You will implement the global operating model, drive capability development, and ensure governance and standards adoption across the region.

The role demands translating global standards into local practice, coordinating with regional leaders, and delivering agile, safe engineering delivery for offshore and onshore

Qualifications

• Advanced leadership across regional teams and multiple service lines.
• Deep understanding of engineering governance, codes, risk and change control.
• Proven ability to translate global standards into local practice.
• Experience building and sustaining capability, training and succession plans.

Responsibilities

• Establish the regional engineering capability and workload baseline; deploy procedures and readiness gates.
• Maintain regional capacity plans with ops, projects and commercial leaders; resolve resource conflicts.
• Embed engineering early in tendering, planning, mobilization and handovers with realistic technical commitments.
• Route high-risk decisions to Technical Authorities and escalate unresolved issues to Global Engineering Director.
• Lead adoption of standard documentation, templates and digital workflows; implement process improvements.
• Coordinate regional recruitment and capability development with regional leadership and HR.
• Share capacity and competency visibility with cross-regional leaders; enable mobility and development.

Skills

Advanced functional leadership

Engineering governance

Change implementation

Workforce development

Matrix collaboration

Business and data literacy

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical/Civil/Electrical/Chemical/Ocean)

Job description

We are EnerMech, a specialist service company that delivers safe, integrated solutions for complex energy projects. For over 50 years, we have supported our clients across the world with unrivalled expertise, equipment, and technology throughout the entire asset lifecycle - both offshore and onshore.

Operating through our global business lines of Energy Solutions, Infrastructure & Industrial Solutions, and Lifting Solutions, we provide a broad range of specialist services including cranes, lifting, fluid power, training, equipment rental, pipeline, process, subsea, and valve services.

At EnerMech, we are driven by operational excellence, innovation, and technical expertise, delivering value through integrated solutions that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enhance performance for our customers worldwide.

Role Overview

• Establish, develop and lead the Europe & Africa engineering function across both our Energy Solutions and Infrastructure & Industrial Solutions implementing the global engineering operating model while maintaining responsive regional delivery.
• Provide dedicated transformation leadership and remain the long-term regional owner of capability, standards adoption, engineering governance implementation and workforce development.
• Translate globally defined standards, competency requirements and approval levels into consistent local practice.
• Lead the assigned regional engineering team and own its training, development and competency readiness.
• Coordinate capability across countries and service lines and with other regional engineering leaders to enable agile delivery and global workforce flexibility.
• Manage the regional technical authority process and access to appointed authorities.

Responsibilities

• Implement the engineering transformation locally: establish the capability and workload baseline, assign process owners, clarify responsibilities and deploy approved procedures, review gates and readiness requirements.
• Maintain a regional engineering delivery and capacity plan with operations, project and commercial leaders; match work to verified competence, secure checking capacity and escalated resource conflicts.
• Embed engineering early in tendering, project planning, equipment preparation, mobilization and field handovers, supporting realistic technical commitments and effective delivery interfaces.
• Ensure preparation, independent checking and approval responsibilities are explicit and recorded. Route high-risk or specialist decisions to appointed Technical Authorities and escalated unresolved technical / schedule conflicts to the Global Engineering Director.
• Lead adoption of controlled documentation, shared templates, verified calculation methods and approved digital workflows; manage regional implementation of engineering process and tool improvements within the global strategy
• Implement the global competency framework and maintain regional team training and development plans aligned with competency gaps and delivery needs; coordinate structured training, mentoring and graduate rotations, develop multiskilling across relevant ES and IIS services and support succession planning.
• Coordinate regional recruitment and capability development with regional leadership and HR.
• Coordinate with other Regional Engineering Managers to share visibility of capacity, competencies and demand; agree cross-regional resource sharing, mobility and development opportunities to respond rapidly to changing priorities and provide global delivery flexibility.
• Align assignments with verified competence and regional commitments, promote common methods and reuse of technical lessons, and feed improvement proposals into the global framework.
• Monitor engineering quality, schedule adherence, readiness, rework, review turnaround and capability development; provide transparent regional delivery reports, risk escalation and corrective-action follow-up.
• Apply EnerMech and client quality, health, safety and environmental requirements; ensure competent technical risk assessment, management of change and closure of engineering assurance findings.
• Sustain regional ownership through routine governance, standards-adoption checks, training compliance and continuous improvement across onshore and offshore delivery.

Experience Requirements

• Experience: normally 8-12+ years of relevant engineering experience, including at least 3 years in engineering leadership
• Qualifications: relevant engineering degree, including Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Chemical or Ocean Engineering according to discipline, plus demonstrated application.
• Evidence: implementation of standards and review processes; coordination of engineering resources; structured training / mentoring; and delivery across operations and project interfaces.
• Competency: Advanced leadership, planning and governance, with sufficient technical breadth to direct multidisciplinary offshore and onshore mechanical work scope support and recognize specialist limits.
• Travel: travel across the Europe & Africa and collaboration with global teams as required.

Anticipated Skills

• Advanced functional leadership: translate global direction into regional plans, clear ownership and sustained adoption.
• Engineering governance: understand technical assurance, codes, risk, change control and delegated approval boundaries without substituting management seniority for technical authorization.
• Change implementation: introduce common processes and digital tools while protecting capacity for current commitments.
• Workforce and development: plan capability and demand, structure mentoring and rotations, and maintain evidence-based competency and succession processes.
• Matrix collaboration: align global engineering and regional delivery stakeholders across countries, projects and service lines.
• Business and data literacy: interpret engineering delivery measures, scope, cost and commercial risk; explain constraints and make transparent recommendations.