Director of Engineering

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

About The Role

As the Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for overseeing technical excellence, quality, and standardization while ensuring teams meet engineering, safety, and regulatory requirements. You will lead operational planning—including staffing in engineering, budgeting, supporting proposals, and performance management—while fostering strong external relationships and aligning capabilities with future business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Owns engineering technical competency and quality programs and oversees technical competency of those within the location.
• Ensures team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports global standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates and oversees use by the team.
• Assures the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Assists business development activities by facilitating the maintenance of personal profiles and resumes.
• Tracking existing capabilities, and strategically addressing future customer capability requirements.
• Encourages positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• May be involved in networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts.
• Stewards the maintenance of pricing records reflecting the effort to complete discipline activities.
• Must support proposals by reviewing and approving the engineering execution strategy for medium to large projects, reviewing Engineering costs, reviewing proposal content, and may be required to present to customers.
• May be called upon to lead part or all of a proposal.
• Participates in budgeting and manage engineering operations to the budget.
• Controls engineering staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures.
• Administers engineering software licensing and costs.
• Creates and maintains engineering guidelines.
• Ensures mentoring/training requirements are met.
• Manages the employee performance review process.
• Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
• Contributes to dispute resolution efforts.
• Ensures cross-discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Works with self-initiated interaction with supervisor and self-initiated technical guidance, Influence over duties.
• Receives administrative direction based on organization policies and objectives.
• Ensure work is reviewed for conformity with policy and for coordination of other company functions or groups.
• Quality Assurance – Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance system relevant to the BU, etc
• Safety – Responsible for personal safety safe working practices for the BU, etc. Understand and follow OH&S procedures.
  
  

What You’ll Have

• Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline of Engineering from an accredited University
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage
• MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period.
  
  

Essential Skills/requirements

• Must have experience in oil & gas, refinery, or petrochemical industry.
• Must have a proven track record of managing multiple projects in Design & Engineering in the oil and gas industry.
• Has a strong understanding of cross-discipline work, interfaces, and sequencing. Well versed in engineering governance, project execution and fiscal management.
• Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content. Adept at budgeting and cost control.
• Relevant discipline and multi-discipline engineering experience, strong experience in project leadership, and experience as a Discipline Manager.
• Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.
  
  

People Skills

• Able to work in diverse team
• Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions.
• Highly effective people management skills such as leadership, team, interpersonal, coaching, mentoring and supervisory skills. Must be able to build, motivate, develop and manage an effective team.
• Highly effective management skills including the ability to plan, set goals; and manage time, priorities, resources, accountabilities, schedules and cost.
• Understands Worley Vision and purpose, translates it into team goals and objectives, and gains team commitment to achieving those goals and objectives.
• Effectively manages and resolves conflict between individuals and/or groups.
• Negotiates successful outcomes that achieve the required objectives and have the support and acceptance of all parties.
  
  

Other

• Good English communication skills (spoken & written)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, and make
• presentations when required.
• Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance.
• Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity.
• Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge within teams
  
  

Moving forward together

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

And were not just talking about it; were doing it. Were reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in todays low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

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