Role:
The Engineering Manager is responsible for managing and monitoring the Engineering activities, providing engineering management services across DORIS UK’s Conventional, New Energies, and Renewables projects.
As the Engineering Manager, you will be a crucial contributor in shaping the strategic direction for DORIS UK’s technical offering. This is a varied role requiring a mix of work acquisition, project delivery, team direction and team development working across the UK and supporting projects internationally.
Reporting to the Vice President DORIS UK this role will focus on leading the engineering consultancy disciplines in the delivery of engineering services across the project lifecycle (feasibility and concept design, pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed Design) and in a range of applications including greenfield, brownfield, and owners engineering.
Scope of Responsibilities:
- Manage and provide day to day leadership to the engineering leadership team
- In conjunction with the engineering discipline managers, project managers and the project services team, promote and maintain an engineering execution plan defining the manpower requirements for the execution of project engineering on projects and tenders
- Support the Heads of Execution for commercial and strategic decision-making and preparation of commercial submissions (pre-qualifications, tenderers and similar) and strategic plans
- Provide support, pastoral care and technical leadership to the engineering team, including mentoring and training
- Championing continuous improvement across engineering to encourage robust working behaviours to achieve greater efficiencies, strong delivery and a team ethos
- Represent DORIS UK internally and externally and build collaborative relationships with other group companies and clients
- Develop and implement methods to effectively interface engineering activities across offices, joint venture partners, third party engineering services and clients
- Implement Value Improving Practices, as appropriate, to improve the quality of project execution or the value of project outcomes
- Proactively and continuously identify engineering issues and risks and address and implement mitigations
Safety and Environmental Related Tasks
- Leading by example to maintain a strong SHEQ culture through visible safety leadership
- Ensure the implementation of adequate Health, Safety and Environmental work practices, procedures, and methods to meet all statutory requirements and the Company SHEQ Management System
- Implement quality assurance methods in accordance with the Quality Management System
- Promote inherent safety design
Qualifications/Experience:
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:
- Mechanical / Structural / Civil Engineering degree / MEng or equivalent. Chartered Engineer status
- Offshore Wind engineering or Oil and Gas engineering experience
- Structural engineering
Advantage to have any of the following:
- Owner’s Engineer, Package Management, Engineering Management or Contract Management experience
- Offshore wind turbine foundation ( Jackets / Monopiles/ Floating)
- Steel Structures eg Topsides, Steel towers, Jackets
- Geotechnical
Competencies & Soft Skills:
- Strong track record in successful engineering management in either Oil and Gas or offshore wind projects
- Results-oriented and Commercial mindset, ability to analyse and summarize complex topics and aggregate decision-relevant information to convey messages clearly and concisely
- Proven experience, ability to build and develop high performance teams and to motivate, acting comfortably in cross-cultural teams, collaborating across country boundaries with a sense of diversity and inclusion
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with people on different levels of hierarchy, different backgrounds and cultures, must be a team player
- Excellent understanding of technical analysis and specifically of competitive drivers that can help winning projects in very competitive tender environments
- Interdisciplinary management experience
- Have an excellent understanding of the key engineering interfaces in offshore projects and how these can be managed
- Strong understanding of the process of developing and constructing offshore structures
- Multi-tasking with ability to self-manage workloads and work-loads of others to meet agreed timescales for delivery
- Experience with managing stakeholders and clients
- Track record of project delivery in Europe, US and APAC
- Demonstrable flexibility and ability to adapt to changing project-related priorities and deliver high quality, accurate work within required deadlines
- Commercial awareness
- Excellent awareness of environmental and sustainability issues
- Strong work ethic
- Abides by the Code of Business Conduct and business ethics
- Confident and outgoing individual
- Flexible to travel in UK and working away from base office
Your Application:
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this vacancy. Your application will be carefully considered during the initial screening process. Unfortunately, due to the high volumes of applicants we are unable to personally respond to everyone that applies but we will contact you if you are selected to progress in the recruitment process
DORIS Group is an equal opportunities 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
To comply with immigration legislation, DORIS GROUP is legally required to verify your right to work in the UK
Candidates requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will be considered alongside other applicants. Appointments will be based upon DORIS GROUP being able to provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy within the EU/EEA or that the role is listed on The Shortage Occupation List
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