Construction and Commissioning Manager - Anchorage, AK

About us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI‑enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Worley is seeking an experienced Construction & Commissioning Manager to lead our regional construction operations and deliver a portfolio of projects across the Alaska region. In this dual‑focus leadership role, you will provide direct oversight for multiple concurrent projects and hold functional responsibility for standardizing construction and commissioning workflows across the region. You will also support business development activities and senior customer engagement.

You will be responsible for the safe, timely, and effective preparation and execution of all the construction scope within the portfolio, ensuring full compliance with HSEQ targets, procedures, and standards, and scaling the regional team and supporting infrastructure to accommodate new work.

You will also be responsible for developing and implementing regional construction and commissioning processes, lessons learned databases, and standardized safety protocols to be used across all Alaska projects and driving the integration of Worley procedures and tools across the business unit.

This position will also directly support major project activity in the region, which will involve collaboration with delivery team from across North America, and effectively leveraging the regional construction organization as major project construction efforts initiate.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing technical oversight for a portfolio of projects ensuring they stay on schedule and within budget.

• Collaborating with project teams to identify and deliver through application of construction best‑practices.

• Identifying potential engineering hazards and implementing appropriate risk mitigation measures.

• Providing input to project schedules as required and reviewing contractor schedules for accuracy and feasibility.

• Ensuring execution plan readiness and proactively identifying and mitigating execution risks.

• Leading audits and reviews of construction processes, ensuring recommendations are implemented and best practices adopted.

• Interfacing with project management and client representatives on all construction‑related matters, proactively escalating risks and issues.

• Ensuring construction processes and procedures are fit for purpose and robust, including the management of all deployed resources.

• Managing a rotating pool of trade leadership specialists and subcontractors, ensuring the right talent is deployed across multiple project sites based on priority. A heavy emphasis will be placed on development of lower tier leadership positions and support functions.

• Demonstrating visible and proactive safety leadership, setting expectations through personal example and clear communication with all teams.

• Supporting incident investigations and safety audits across all regional project sites.

• Assessing site working conditions and environments to ensure safe and effective operations.

• Promoting and ensuring compliance with environmental responsibilities and standards.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak or listen. The employee frequently is required to walk and sit.

The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Visual Acuity: must be adequate to perform all…