Team Lead (Corrosion)

Job description / Role

Wood is currently recruiting for a Team Lead (Corrosion) to support our in-house projects to be based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Lead role within the Wood Asset Life Optimisation (ALO) group supporting materials and corrosion specialist engineering team.

This is a team lead role based in our Abu Dhabi office which will contribute to the delivery of engineering excellence through:
- Executing assigned scopes of work.
- Providing discipline expertise to the business.
- Contributing to business growth.
- Manage and supervise materials and corrosion team.

Has authority for a selection of corrosion and materials projects, managing, and providing technical direction and guidance, managing client relationship and project team engagement, with responsibility for cost, schedule, resource allocation and risk.

Accountabilities:
- Executing and managing assigned scope of work.
- Supervises and participates in delivery of complex engineering tasks and projects.
- Manage project execution in terms of main contract deliverables, scope compliance, quality, and profitability.
- Contributes to successful project completion by participating in the resolution of issues such as conflicting technical requirements and complex coordination requirements.
- Exercises mature technical judgement in devising practical, economical solutions.
- Assesses work against standards, aims and specifications.
- Adhere to and comply with relevant discipline specific procedures and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
- Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities
- Organising, active participation and occasional leading of technical workshops.
- Regularly work from and represent Wood in client office.
- Identify and mitigate project risks proactively.
- Providing discipline expertise.
- Solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches; exercises mature professional judgment in evaluating and selecting technical strategic options.
- As necessary, modifies established guidelines, devises new approaches, applies existing criteria in new ways and draws conclusions from comparative situations.
- Regularly functions as a technical leader or significant contributor to a major complex problem or project
- Produces innovative ideas and solves problems requiring development of new approaches or new uses for existing approaches
- Consistently called on to use creativity and professional judgement to formulate results based on engineering standards, experience and constructive thinking
- Develops unique solutions for complex technical problems
- Anticipates potential problems and takes the initiative to solve complex problems through creative thinking and creative use of internal and external resources both inside and outside of discipline expertise
- Exercises mature professional judgement in identifying the implications of experimental results
- Understands customer needs and applies technical solutions to meet goals
- Provide technical input and support to proposals as required
- Contributing to business growth.
- Contributes to business development through regular engagement, relationship building and delivery to clients, as well as identifying and pursuing opportunities to expand scope of work for Wood.
- Contributes to engineering bids and proposals.
- Manage and supervise materials and corrosion team.
- Manage a team of 6 to 10 people including collaboration with other Wood offices.
- Supporting and supervising tasks delegated to direct reports.
- Provides technical guidance and direction to less experienced staff.
- Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities. Provides coaching and mentoring for less experienced staff, supports the development and retention of motivated and competent people.
- Directs work assignments, scheduling, and reviews of work in progress.
- Manage a portfolio of projects, with responsibility for cost, schedule, resource allocation and risk.
- Supervises delivery of consultancy projects.
- Provide appropriate HSSE leadership including compliance with site and office safety requirements and technical/design safety requirements.

- Suitable engineering/metallurgical degree and education from a recognised Academic institution.
- Chartership, Professional Engineer (PE) status or equivalent relevant professional license/registration from a recognized national or industry engineering institution is desirable.
- Typically requires 6 to 10 years progressively more responsible pertinent experience; developing his/her area, and knowledgeable about impacts on other areas.
- Demonstrable technical leadership experience in corrosion/materials and engineering project management

About the Company

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.