Major Incident Manager

Job Description - Major Incident Manager (HOU
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Company :
Worley

USA-TX-Houston

Information Technology

Full-time

Employment Type

:
Employee

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.

The Senior Major Incident Manager holds global ownership and authority for enterprise major incident governance across all operational regions on a 24/7/365 basis. Reporting to the Director of Service Management, this role serves as the ultimate authority for commanding high-impact P1/P2 outages and service degradations within our enterprise IT environment. Based in the Americas, India or Australia, she/he will lead direct reports in international time zones to maintain a unified, round-the-clock crisis response framework.

She/he will leverage deep expertise in Managed Service Provider (MSP) governance and vendor management to drive immediate accountability, protecting enterprise uptime during our digital transformation. This full-time position offers flexibility in location across the Americas and APAC regions , allowing the successful candidate to be based at any Worley office within those regions. The role follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.

• Governance:
  Own, define, and enforce the global major incident policy across the enterprise.
• MSP & Vendor Escalation:
  Act as the senior escalation point for external suppliers, holding MSPs and third-party vendors strictly accountable to contractual SLAs and MTTR targets during live incidents.
• Multi-Vendor Orchestration:
  Command high-severity restoration calls, seamlessly driving alignment and technical collaboration between internal squads, cloud providers, and legacy MSP technical teams.
• Global Team Leadership:
  Direct, mentor, and align Incident Managers across international time zones to ensure seamless handoffs and standardized execution of the major incident playbook.
• Service Now Workbench Ownership:
  Leverage Service Now’s Major Incident Management workbench to trigger automated notifications, track resolver engagement, and document restoration workflows in real time.
• Executive Communications:
  Author and distribute transparent, business-focused incident updates and impact statements to global leadership under strict time-to-communicate deadlines.
• Post-Incident Review (PIR):
  Engage in cross-functional post-incident investigations with vendors and internal teams to map accurate Configuration Items (CIs) in Service Now, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence.
• Monthly Leadership Reporting:
  Prepare and present monthly operational performance reports to Digital leadership, using advanced ITIL Operational framework metrics to develop trends and provide insights into performance.
• Success Measures
• MIM Actionable CMDB Utilization:
  High reliance on the CMDB during active bridge calls, enabling rapid impact assessment and accelerating technical troubleshooting.
• Rapid Incident-to-Catalog Throughput:
  Seamless routing of complex major incident workarounds into predefined service request models, accelerating regular request handling speeds and user service restoration post outage.
• Incident Data Migration Readiness:
  Production of clean, standardized major incident records and resolution…