Job Description
Wood is seeking Engineers across all levels and disciplines to join its operations in Iraq. This advertisement is to identify and pipeline qualified candidates for an upcoming project in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Responsibilities
Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood is seeking Engineers across all levels and disciplines to join its operations in Iraq. This advertisement is to identify and pipeline qualified candidates for an upcoming project in Kirkuk, Iraq.
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The role
Wood is seeking Engineers across all levels and disciplines to join its operations in Iraq. This advertisement is to identify and pipeline qualified candidates for an upcoming project in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.
Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region
What We Can Offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
- Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
- Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
- Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ services of our employees at 5-year service milestones
Job Objectives
- Contributes to technical delivery of engineering excellence through:
- Executing assigned scopes of work.
- Providing discipline expertise to the business.
- Uses technical knowledge to perform engineering assignments and produce a range of engineering deliverables (including more complex tasks) with limited guidance and direction from more senior technical professionals.
- Evaluates, selects, and adapts standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform tasks.
- Fully qualified to execute most standard and straightforward engineering activities, working unsupervised on most aspects of work.
- Under general supervision performs all conventional aspects of design engineering and analysis, acting as document originator.
- Creates and reviews designs, drawings, specifications and other engineering deliverables involving both existing and new technology and applications.
- Problems presented involve new concepts and new and varied issues that demand technical expertise, increased innovations or considerable modifications of precedents.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
Executes Assigned Scopes of Work as follows:
- Establishes detailed designs and performance specifications to fulfill the requirements of assigned general specifications for components, systems, processes, etc.
- Plans and carries out successive steps and handles problems with general guidance from instructions, policies and precedents
- Responsible for meeting discipline costs and schedule requirements in production of deliverables, coordinates own work schedule, and prepares progress reports.
- Recommends changes in plans and estimated costs when necessary.
- Develops a range of engineering deliverables, including specifications, calculations, reports, material requisitions and others
- Interprets scopes of work and proposes engineering solutions
- Performs technical bid evaluations and reviews vendor documents
- Active participation in design reviews
Providing Discipline Expertise
- Conducts problem solving using discipline expertise: problems involve new concepts and new and varied problems to be solved that demand technical expertise, investigation and interpretation
- Develop alternative solutions, identifies risks and benefits
- Develop solutions to non-recurring problems by appraising, interpreting and evaluating various precedents and data.
- Exercises professional judgement in selecting and interpreting information and modifying standard methods and procedures
- In consultancy business areas, may deliver small-scale projects with responsibility for cost, schedule, resource allocation and risk, while working within an established program management plan.
- Provide technical input and support to proposals as required
Internal
Working Relationships:
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate across the project / contract interfaces.
- Engage with inter-discipline community and promote discipline including networking / knowledge sharing.
- Coordinates work efforts and solves technical problems with cooperative individuals
- Shares opinions, ideas and resources with others to achieve common goals, fosters teamwork and collaboration, builds trust
External
- Establishing and / or maintaining an awareness of external stakeholders including industry bodies,
- Academia, vendors, client interface (as appropriate and requested).
- Builds external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal/external service providers or contractors
Level of Influence and Decision-Making Authority
- Actions and decisions typically have a significant influence on the technical results of the project or department.
- Works independently on most aspects of work
- Works under general supervision: work is assigned in terms of specific objectives and guidelines and is checked for technical accuracy; broad instructions covering generally what needs to be done, limitations, quality and quantity expected, deadlines and priorities are given
- Additionally, specific instructions are given for new, difficult or unusual assignments
- More complex engineering decisions will be referred to more senior authority
- No direct reports but frequently serves as a technical resource.
- May guide and supervise a work group consisting of technical and support staff; looks to supervisor for substantial coaching on people management issues
- Responsible for meeting your own targets which will impact the discipline
Qualifications
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected
- Bachelors (minimum) or Masters (preferred) Degree in engineering discipline
Knowledge, Skills And Experience
- Typically requires more than four years of progressively more responsible relevant experience.
- Beginning to focus in an area of specialization.
- Proficient user of relevant software and calculation templates
- Ability to comprehend and interpret technical information applicable to their discipline of engineering
- Demonstrates the application of theory in a practical context.
- Working level of competence in the application of standards, processes and procedures and how they are used in work execution
- Working knowledge of applicable codes and standards
- Working at a level of competence in own discipline in the execution of assigned tasks.
- Working level of knowledge of industry and technology development within discipline area
- The ability to create functional and cost-effective designs and processes that meet complex specification requirements with little support.
- Regularly assigned ownership of conceptual design
- Shows evidence of the ability to guide and mentor others
- Experienced user of relevant specialist engineering software
Personal Attributes
- Able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form in English/Arabic/Kurdish.
- Good interpersonal and team working skills, build positive relationships with supervisors, subordinates, peers and clients
- Enthusiastic, conscientious and committed to continuous professional development
- High level of awareness and commitment to safety in all aspects of daily work.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Highly motivated and demonstrates personal initiative.
- Possesses integrity, strong work ethic, positive attitude, and is dependable.
- Adaptable and flexible to the changing needs of projects and assignments.
- Prepared to take on new tasks and learn new technical subjects and skills
- Continuously develops own knowledge and abilities.
About Us
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.