Senior Mechanical Engineer – Rotating

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

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

We are an equal opportunity 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 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.

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

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews.
• Commitment to continued professional development with tailored plans.
• Global connections – join experts around the world.
• Medical insurance providing inpatient and outpatient care.
• Group life and personal accident insurance.
• Employee Share Plan offering opportunities to purchase Wood shares.
• Long Service Award celebrating commitment and loyalty at 5‑year milestones.

• Contribute to the technical delivery of engineering excellence.
• Execute assigned scopes of work.
• Provide discipline expertise to the business.
• Support and supervise task delegation to the team.
• Use technical knowledge to perform engineering assignments and produce deliverables including complex problems.
• Serve as primary discipline engineer or technical authority on projects with small to medium complexity.
• Select engineering techniques to solve problems and make design recommendations.
• Plan and conduct assignments requiring coordination of difficult tasks.
• Apply expertise within own discipline area.
• In consultancy businesses, review and manage complex projects within area of expertise or multidisciplinary nature.

Executing Assigned Scopes of Work:

• Participate as a team member in a specific phase of a broad engineering assignment.
• Direct preparation of appropriate documentation for assigned projects.
• Ensure successful completion of the assigned project/phase within budgeted time and cost constraints.
• Participate in defining engineering approaches and in planning and scheduling work.
• Evaluate problems, organise investigations and establish general performance specifications for components, equipment, systems, processes, etc.
• Check engineering calculations and drawings in accordance with industry codes and standards; assist with the development of less senior Technical Professionals.
• Adhere to and comply with relevant 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.
• Participate in site visits, project review meetings, design reviews and other workshops as required.
• Organise and actively participate in design reviews.

Providing Discipline Expertise:

• Resolve problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches; exercise mature professional judgement.
• Modify established guidelines, devise new approaches, apply criteria in new ways and draw conclusions from comparative situations.
• Act as a technical leader or significant contributor to major complex problems or projects.
• Produce innovative ideas and solve problems requiring development of new approaches.
• Use creativity and professional judgement to formulate results based on engineering standards, experience and constructive thinking.
• Develop unique solutions for complex technical problems.
• Anticipate potential problems and take…