Senior Process Engineer

Wood is recruiting for a Senior Process Engineer to join our UAE Business Unit. This is a full‑time office‑based role in Sharjah, UAE with business trips.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Process Engineer to join our UAE Business Unit. The role is full‑time, residential, based in Sharjah, UAE.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90‑year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients in delivering energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq, delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long‑term growth of the region.

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high‑profile clients and complex projects Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long service award:
  Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ services of our employees at 5‑year service milestones

Contributing to technical delivery of engineering excellence through executing assigned scopes of work, providing discipline expertise to the business and supporting and supervising task delegation to team.

Executing Assigned Scopes of Work:

• Participate as a team member in specific phases of broad engineering assignments
• Direct preparation of appropriate documentation for assigned projects
• Ensure successful completion of the assigned project within budget, time and cost constraints
• Define engineering approaches and plan and schedule work
• Evaluate problems, organize investigations and establish performance specifications for components, equipment, systems or processes
• Check engineering calculations and drawings in accordance with industry codes and standards; assist with the development of less senior Technical Professionals
• Adhere to discipline‑specific procedures and provide feedback for continuous improvement
• Participate in audits and incident investigations as required
• Perform complex engineering tasks related to specific units of major projects
• Attend project review meetings, design reviews and other workshops
• Organize and actively participate in design reviews

Providing Discipline Expertise:

• Solve problems requiring new approaches or uses of existing approaches; exercise mature professional judgment in evaluating and selecting technical strategic options
• Modify established guidelines, devise new approaches and apply existing criteria in new ways
• Function as a technical leader or significant contributor to major complex projects
• Generate innovative ideas and solutions for complex technical problems
• Anticipate potential problems and proactively solve them through creative thinking
• Understand customer needs and apply technical solutions to meet goals
• Provide technical input and support to proposals as required

Supporting and Supervising…