Engineering Manager

The position

• Take decisions to ensure that project operations and engineering deliverables are engineered in a manner that safety, health, environment and security are safeguarded.
• Set and define Engineering related company standards.
• Approve deviations from Company Engineering Standards.
• Approve engineering deliverables.
• Approve requisitions.
• Appraise subordinates.
• Approve training and education programmes for subordinates.
• Appraise engineering subcontractors.

The Engineering Manager reports directly to the General Manager Operations. He leads the following directs:

• Project Engineers
• Engineers
• Lead Draughtsman

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Ensuring that project operations are engineered in a manner that safety, health, environment and security are safeguarded.
• Quality of engineering deliverables, including issues related to fit for purpose, safety, health, environment, security and cost.
• Developing and preparing new equipment and vessels that suit the Company’s aspirations and objectives.
• Engineering philosophy
• Creating conditions, which allow engineers to fulfil requirements w.r.t. safety, health, environment and security.
• Reviewing workload and adjusting human resource capacity accordingly.
• Management of engineering knowledge.
• Keeping-up Engineering Library.
• Ensuring that engineering staff is adequately skilled, experienced, trained and educated.
• Allocation of engineering staff to tasks.
• Performance of engineering staff.
• Engineering man-hour budget control
• Assisting Manager Proposals in preparation of Proposal Documents.
• Ensuring that al relevant disciplines are involved in review cycle of engineering deliverables.
• Ensuring that expertise of operational staff is utilised during project preparations (in defining and reviewing installation / construction method).
• Keeping abreast of innovative engineering developments.
• Ensuring up-to-date engineering filing system.
• Keeping in touch with market needs w.r.t. engineering solutions.
• Innovating and renewing engineering methods and solutions.
• Competence level and qualifications of engineering staff.
• Motivation of engineering staff.
• Communication and co-operation within engineering staff.
• Communication and co-operation of engineering staff with other disciplines.
• Management career perspectives for engineering staff.
• Promoting of and ensuring adherence to company policy and Company Management System (CMS).
• Development, maintenance and implementation of the Company Management System (CMS) documentation applicable to his field of responsibility.
• Control of engineering related documentation.
• Engineering evaluation of projects.
• Ensuring that organisation is taking actions on given engineering feedback to prevent reoccurrence.
• Identification and reporting of technical areas of concern to Head Engineering and Projects.
• Stimulating and realizing optimisation and improvements in his area of responsibility.
• Improvement of ability, efficiency, profitability of the engineering department.

Candidate profile

• Master Degree in engineering or alternatively bachelor degree with extensive experience in design and engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in design & engineering of which a minimum of 5 years in the offshore industry.
• Management skills training.
• Project management training.
• Good practical and theoretical knowledge of offshore transportation, installation and pipelay techniques.
• Good understanding of contracting related legislation.
• Good knowledge of safety in design & engineering.
• Knowledge of Quality, Health, Environment and Security Systems.
• Good knowledge of the English language both written and spoken.
• Capable to motivate and manage subordinates and colleagues.
• People knowledge.
• Capable to recognise talent.
• Prepared to travel and work irregular hours.

Interested?

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