About the Role
We are seeking to establish, develop, and lead the engineering function across the Middle East, Caspian & Asia regions for Energy Solutions and Infrastructure & Industrial Solutions. This role involves implementing a global engineering operating model while ensuring responsive regional delivery. You will provide dedicated transformation leadership, serving as the long-term regional owner of capability, standards adoption, engineering governance implementation, and workforce development. Key responsibilities include translating globally defined standards, competency requirements, and approval levels into consistent local practices and leading the assigned regional engineering team to ensure training, development, and competency readiness.
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Responsibilities
- Implement the engineering transformation locally by establishing the capability and workload baseline, assigning process owners, clarifying responsibilities, and deploying approved procedures.
- Maintain a regional engineering delivery and capacity plan with operations, project, and commercial leaders; matching work to verified competence, securing checking capacity, and escalating resource conflicts.
- Embed engineering early in tendering, project planning, equipment preparation, mobilization, and field handovers to support realistic technical commitments and effective delivery interfaces.
- Ensure preparation, independent checking, and approval responsibilities are explicit and recorded; route high-risk or specialist decisions to appointed Technical Authorities and escalate unresolved technical/schedule conflicts to the Global Engineering Director.
- Lead the adoption of controlled documentation, shared templates, verified calculation methods, and approved digital workflows while managing regional implementation of engineering process and tool improvements within the global strategy.
- Implement the global competency framework, maintain regional team training and development plans aligned with competency gaps and delivery needs, and coordinate structured training, mentoring, and graduate rotations.
- Coordinate regional recruitment and capability development with regional leadership and HR.
- Collaborate with other Regional Engineering Managers for visibility of capacity, competencies, and demand; agreeing on cross-regional resource sharing and mobility opportunities to respond to changing priorities.
- Align assignments with verified competence and regional commitments, promoting common methods and technical lessons, while feeding improvement proposals into the global framework.
- Monitor engineering quality, schedule adherence, readiness, rework, review turnaround, and capability development; provide transparent regional delivery reports, risk escalation, and corrective-action follow-up.
- Apply quality, health, safety, and environmental requirements while ensuring competent technical risk assessment, management of change, and closure of engineering assurance findings.
- Sustain regional ownership through routine governance, standards-adoption checks, training compliance, and continuous improvement across onshore and offshore delivery.
Requirements
- Experience: Typically 8–12+ years of relevant engineering experience, including at least 3 years in engineering leadership.
- Qualifications: Relevant engineering degree in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Chemical, or Ocean Engineering, with demonstrated application.
- Evidence: Proven experience in implementing standards and review processes, coordinating engineering resources, structured training/mentoring, and delivering across operations and project interfaces.
- Competency: Advanced leadership, planning, and governance, with sufficient technical breadth to direct multidisciplinary ES/IIS support and recognize specialist limits.
- Travel: Willingness to travel across the Middle East, Caspian & Asia and collaborate with global teams as required.
- Advanced functional leadership: Ability to translate global direction into regional plans with clear ownership and sustained adoption.
- Engineering governance: Understanding of technical assurance, codes, risk, change control, and delegated approval boundaries without substituting management seniority for technical authorization.
- Change implementation: Capability to introduce common processes and digital tools while protecting capacity for current commitments.
- Workforce and development: Planning capability and demand, structuring mentoring and rotations, maintaining evidence-based competency, and succession processes.
- Matrix collaboration: Aligning global engineering and regional delivery stakeholders across countries, projects, and service lines.
- Business and data literacy: Ability to interpret engineering delivery measures, scope, cost and commercial risk; explain constraints and make transparent recommendations.
