Discipline Head-Mechanical

Overview

Discipline Head-Mechanical role at Wood, responsible for engineering delivery and performance within the discipline group.

Responsibilities

• Drive HSSEA culture and performance through the assigned discipline group.
• Ensure discipline engineering integrity is maintained across work scopes.
• Drive continual focus on process safety through the discipline engineering team.
• Drive elimination of technical incidents through robust controls, incident reviews and embedding lessons learned and best practice from across the organisation in the discipline engineering team.
• Support technical assurance activities, including conducting audits and participating in technical incident investigations.
• Provide discipline personnel to deliver work scopes in line with company policies and procedures and within customer requirements.
• Manage departmental overhead budgets and resource utilization vs workload.
• Support Head of Engineering to prepare short-term and annual workforce plans to identify the number and mix of staff required to meet the demand forecast.
• Collaboratively produce discipline input to engineering execution plans with other discipline managers.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering systems and tools required by the discipline to deliver cost‑effective and competitive engineering execution.
• Plan and prioritise work to meet discipline commitments aligned with organizational goals and ensure resources are available to complete plans.

Qualifications

• ISCED Level 6 / Bachelor\’s (minimum) or Level 7 / Master\’s (preferred) degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Chartership with a relevant professional body / Professional Engineer License or equivalent.
• Extensive broad and deep experience of engineering delivery in one or more relevant industry sectors.
• Expert level experience and understanding of discipline engineering tools and processes.
• Broad understanding of the business drivers for relevant industry sector clients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to balance needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to attract top talent and develop talent using coaching, mentoring and formal performance processes.
• Experience in developing talent and implementing competence assurance for the discipline group.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of engineering delivery across relevant sectors and disciplines.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects including green hydrogen and energy transition initiatives.
• Flexible working arrangements with hybrid options.
• Diversity and Inclusion commitment with employee networks.
• Competitive salary with regular reviews.
• Flexible benefits package including 33 days annual leave, pension, private medical cover and life insurance.
• Continued professional development and tailored development plans.
• Global connections with opportunities to work with experts worldwide.

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 race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with governing laws.

Seniority level: Director

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Management and Manufacturing

Industries: Professional Services