Job description
Role Overview
PMC Construction Site Lead with Wood PLC, supporting the ADNOC Offshore project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The position will be based offshore.
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara, a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies.
Role Purpose
Lead the Project Construction team to support objectives and strategies, champion safety across all construction aspects, and manage contractor execution efforts to ensure compliance with Project objectives, strategies, obligations and requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead the Project Construction team to support objectives and strategies.
- Establish a construction organization to implement the Project execution plans and procedures and coordinate resourcing of construction team positions.
- Clearly communicate direct reports short-term and long-term goals that support the project objectives.
- Encourage and recognize outstanding performance, and ensure that staff are appraised regularly and developed accordingly.
- Take a leadership role in mentoring and training UAE Nationals in construction management.
Safety & Compliance
- Champion safety in all construction aspects of the Project and promote the safety objective that "Nobody gets Hurt."
- Ensure that the Contractor and Subcontractors are compliant with project safety expectations, policies and procedures.
- Steward the development of an Integrated Safety Plan for Construction, including SIMOPS for all island and brownfield work.
- Assist in the review and implementation of all Contractor safety plans.
Construction Planning & Execution
- Manage the Construction teams responsible for the planning, development and operations to ensure construction execution.
- Manage the Contractor's construction planning and execution efforts to ensure compliance with Project objectives, strategies, obligations and requirements.
- Provide construction and execution strategy support to the Project Team through construction oversight and assistance.
- Ensure that the detailed design deliverables support constructability.
- Lead construction planning teams to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities.
- Sponsor construction related readiness reviews, constructability workshops and CERs.
Stakeholder & Interface Management
- Steward interfaces and interactions between the Contractor and other UZ Projects, Production Operations, and Drilling.
- Manage the interface with ADNOC to execute brownfield works in order to minimize disruption in ongoing production operations.
Reporting & Performance
- Report on construction progress, performance, initiatives and issues to the Project Team.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or equivalent.
- Master's degree in management or equivalent.
- Minimum 20+ years' experience within the oil & gas sector, with broad Construction Management experience on major projects.
- Experience with contractors and suppliers worldwide.
- Experience in the recruitment and development of technical staff.
Skills & Competencies
- Ability to make independent decisions in the planning, organizing and coordinating to develop solutions to complex problems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent technical team and interpersonal skills.
Additional Information
- Position is based offshore.