Manager, Engineering

Job Description

The Manager, Engineering will play a pivotal role in overseeing the engineering team's daily operations and strategic initiatives. They will be responsible for fostering a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring the team's alignment with company goals, and driving innovative solutions to enhance operational efficiency. This role requires strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of engineering principles, and the ability to manage complex projects.

• Lead, manage and develop the Engineering and Design team, ensuring appropriate competency, capability, performance and resource utilisation to meet current and future business requirements.
• Ensure the technical integrity, quality and compliance of engineering and design activities delivered by the team.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across engineering activities, supporting effective resolution of technical challenges and delivery of high-quality engineering solutions.
• Manage and coordinate engineering activities across project lifecycle phases, including Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, Fabrication and Construction.
• Define and manage engineering scope, deliverables, resources and priorities, providing appropriate input to overall project planning and execution.
• Ensure engineering activities are delivered in accordance with applicable legislation, industry standards, client requirements and company procedures.
• Promote a positive Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ) culture across the Engineering and Design team.
• Support recruitment, competency development, performance management and succession planning within the Engineering and Design function.
• Develop and maintain effective technical relationships with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders to support successful engineering delivery.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve engineering processes, tools and ways of working, including the effective adoption of relevant digital technologies.
• Provide engineering input to tenders, proposals, estimates and project planning where required.
• Participate in engineering management, resource and planning meetings, providing leadership and technical input to support effective delivery and team utilisation.

• Knowledge of emerging digital engineering technologies.
• Experience supporting projects outside the UKCS.

• Extensive experience in engineering and design within the energy industry.
• Strong understanding of engineering principles, project execution methodologies and offshore operations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of relevant engineering regulations, standards and legislative requirements.
• Demonstrable experience leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.
• Proven ability to manage engineering activities through Concept, FEED, Detailed Design, Fabrication and Construction phases.
• Experience managing engineering scope, deliverables, resources, priorities and technical interfaces.
• Strong technical problem-solving, decision-making and risk-management capabilities.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience developing and managing engineering teams, including competency, performance and professional development.
• Experience identifying and implementing improvements to engineering processes and ways of working, including digital transformation initiatives.
• Awareness of commercial and project-delivery considerations relevant to engineering activities.
• Working knowledge of relevant engineering, design and project-management tools and systems.
• Ability to prepare and deliver technical presentations to internal and external stakeholders.

We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive…