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Role Overview
Wood PLC is recruiting an Operations Engineer to join its UAE business unit in Dubai. This is a full-time, on-site role providing technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities across assigned contracts, assets, and project areas. The role reports to the Lead Operations Engineer or Operations Manager.
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering, and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people across around 50 countries, Wood supports clients throughout the full asset lifecycle. Wood has a 90-year heritage in the Middle East and is an integral part of operations in Iraq, with 10 major contracts and over 850 employees. The company supports clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects, delivering maintenance, modifications, and engineering solutions while advancing decarbonization ambitions. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara, a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.
Role Purpose
The Operations Engineer provides technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance activities, applying field experience, discipline knowledge, and practical engineering judgement to support safe, efficient, and compliant delivery. The role supports the development, review, and implementation of O&M processes, procedures, work instructions, and technical standards, and contributes to tendering and business development by providing discipline input, operational assumptions, technical information, and lessons learned from O&M delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery
- Provide engineering support to O&M contracts, projects, and operational assets in line with agreed scopes, standards, and procedures.
- Support troubleshooting, technical queries, site issues, and operational improvement activities within own discipline area.
- Assist with performance reporting, KPI monitoring, and identification of improvement opportunities.
- Support safe and reliable O&M delivery in line with HSEA expectations.
- Provide practical technical support to operations, maintenance, delivery, and plant teams.
Procedures and Assurance
- Support preparation, review, update, and implementation of O&M procedures, work instructions, method statements, and supporting documentation.
- Promote compliance with company, client, regulatory, and project-specific requirements.
- Participate in audits, assurance reviews, incident investigations, and lessons-learned activities as required.
- Assist with preparation, review, and improvement of O&M procedures and processes.
Tender and Business Support
- Support tender, proposal, and business development activities by providing O&M technical input, operational assumptions, activity descriptions, resource information, and supporting documentation.
- Contribute to bid clarifications, technical schedules, execution plans, and mobilisation planning where required.
- Support tender and proposal activity by contributing technical and operational content.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Work collaboratively with operations, maintenance, engineering, project delivery, commercial, and business development teams.
- Maintain effective communication with discipline focal points, site teams, contract teams, and functional stakeholders.
- Support knowledge sharing across the wider O&M community and contribute lessons learned from field delivery.
- Engage with bid, tender, and proposal teams to provide technical and operational input when required.
- Liaise with clients, vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers to support technical delivery and clarification of requirements under supervision.
- Support contract delivery, procurement support, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Engage with site personnel and support delivery of work with site visits in MEAC regions, including Iraq.
Continuous Development
- Maintain own technical competence and keep aware of relevant O&M practices, standards, and industry developments.
- Act in accordance with company values, HSEA expectations, and ethical standards.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering, operations, or maintenance discipline.
- Minimum 2 years relevant O&M project experience in MEAC region.
- Relevant O&M field experience is advantageous.
- Practical experience in operations and maintenance contract delivery.
- Understanding of O&M procedures, work instructions, technical standards, assurance requirements, and safe systems of work.
Skills & Competencies
- Ability to review, update, and develop procedures and supporting technical documentation.
- Ability to support tender and proposal activities by providing practical technical input and operational delivery assumptions.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, including ability to prepare clear technical content.
- Ability to work collaboratively across site, contract, engineering, commercial, and business development teams.
- Basic awareness of relevant regulatory, client, and company requirements applicable to O&M delivery.
- Practical, solutions-focused approach with ability to apply engineering judgement to operational issues.
- Well organized and able to manage assigned tasks to agreed deadlines.
- Collaborative approach and ability to build effective working relationships across different teams.
- Initiative and follow-through on actions.
- Ability to work safely, ethically, and in line with company values.
- Ability to work on site, both onshore and offshore, in locations including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and other Africa regions.
- Arabic and French speaking is advantageous.
Additional Information
Contract and Location
- Full-time on-site role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.
Benefits
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high-profile clients and complex projects in Iraq.
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across the business with employee networks giving all employees a voice.
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
- Commitment to continued professional development with tailored development plans based on individual needs and interests.
- Global connections to join experts around the world at the leading edge of the industry, shaping professional standards.
- Medical Insurance covering inpatient and outpatient medical care.
- Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance providing Life Assurance cover.
- Employee Share Plan providing opportunity to purchase Wood shares with company match.
- Long Service Award recognizing commitment and loyalty of employees at 5-year service milestones.
- Equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce; all suitably qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with relevant governing laws.