Job Description
Position Title: Manager: Engineering
Broad Band: M13: Senior Management
Talent Pipeline Layer: Managing Others (MO)
Improve technology, technology application and integration for more than one technology and/or a lead role within area of expertise/or portfolio of projects (Operating level: Tactical)
- QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
Qualification
- Bachelors of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 4 years as Lead Engineer
- Masters of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 2 years as Lead Engineer
Experience
- 15 years experience as Engineer (subject to qualification)
- International experience preferred
Skills
- Expert in analysis and modelling of engineering components, systems, processes
- Effective leadership and management skills
- Ability to deal with unknown, combine unrelated data and information to create new insight
- Expert discipline knowledge
- Strategic thinking
- Design thinking
- Expert knowledge of technical trends, interpretation and application of industry knowledge
- Effective leadership and management skills
- Creating and innovating
- Discernment
- Expert competence performing risk Management/Analysis
- Leading portfolios of projects
- Resilience
- Intercultural intelligence
- Expert in conceptualising engineering components, systems
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Expert analytical and problem solving skills
- Results driven (meeting customer expectations)
- Research and development
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Expert persuading and influencing skills
- Ability to think and interact globally
- Change agent
- epxert , presentation and negotiation skills
- KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Focus Area
Get results through individual contributions
Operational / Functional
- Self & team consistently meets targets, due dates and quality standards (production, service, advice, etc.)
- Achieve Quality targets by consistently reducing all non-value-adding work
- Cost target achievement by consistently improving team productivity
- All Plans and team objectives consistently executed and achieved in a safe working environment
- Productivity target achievement
- Achievement of Saudization targets
- Play a lead role for a portfolio of projects
- Solve problems involving multiple stakeholders (e.g. on related Affiliate level and impact value chains)
- Identify, prioritise, and select stakeholder needs in order to set specific technical requirements (involves pre-empting known and unknown)
- Translate stakeholders needs/wants into specific technical deliverables
- Improve technology application and integration
- Independent idea generation within multi-disciplines/multi-affiliate (strategic impact)
- Develop work processes and implement actions to improve the multi discipline's and/or industry performance
- Define, interpret, defend and approve quality standards, specifications and technical requirements
- Ensure quality of a function's technical delivery by the review and sign off of multi-disciplinary technical work
- Take decisions which optimise total cost of ownership
- Balance cost, schedule, quality as per risk level
- Take accountability for risk decisions through appropriate evaluation and risk mitigation practices
- Develop and review policies, procedures and methods and develop where necessary; apply policies with discretion
- Ensure that the quality of decision making with regards to projects are high
- Solve problems on affiliate level and impact related affiliate by enhancing meaningful steps (define, defend, enhance)
- Verify quality of group delivery; manage junior staff
- Continuously research the field of expertise to develop the area with the company; improve technology application and integration
- Conduct Research & Development that leads to new solutions being implemented in the Affiliate
- Question existing work practices
Leadership
- Establish High performance in the team through Goal clarity and alignment of all team members (performance direction)
- Drive Team performance and performance management through regular performance reviews and giving recognition where it was due; Always deal with performance issues in a proactive manner
- Increase the Team skill level, succession and career progressions though by enabling the achievement of development objectives for one self and all team members
- Change management and communication well communicated and effectively executed across the business
- Quality diversity decisions on opportunity utilization (Employee Movements)
- Creates a high performance culture and values driven environment (team motivation and wellness) by Improving engagement and enablement levels that results in high performance
- Governance and legal compliance (audits and inspection)
- work alignment and collaboration across boundaries (value chain)
- Resources availability and optimization by ensuring that Cost effective resources are available for results delivery on a daily basis
- Diverse succession pipeline planning and retention
- Influence senior Affiliate management through technical leadership
- Ensuring continuous personal and professional growth and development
- Improve group work processes and play leading role in implementation of new ideas/opportunities
- Facilitating transformation and change processes
- Facilitating continuous improvement
- Communicate best practices, technical reports and positions statements with the appropriate stakeholders
- Lead discussions with contractors and licensors
- Develop and facilitate the implementation of appropriate business solutions
- Idea generation through facilitating an interdisciplinary team
- Provide input on medium and long term technical strategies
- Influence technical integration between cross boundary business teams
- Provide technical coaching, mentoring and training to team members
- Lead team across functions, disciplines and business environments (management track)
- Solve more strategic technical problems on Affiliate level and impact value chain (Functional tech)
- Responsible allocation of and motivation to secure resources (management)
- Play a technical leadership role in a portfolio of projects
- Lead team and remove obstacles to achieve and improve results (management)
- Interpret and execute strategy
- Develop technically orientated and appropriate business solutions
- Participate in the planning of research programmes
Relationships
- Fully understand customer and supplier needs and ensure customer/partner service level agreements
- Build effective working relationship with managers, peers, team members, customers and suppliers
- Liaison with service and support functions/upstream – downstream interface management
- Ensure knowledge transfer within own area of responsibility
- Build effective networks (internal and external) to the benefit of the team
- Use opportunities and appropriate communication tools to effectively communicate information to the team
- Build credibility and constructive working relationship with teams, managers and business leaders to enhance the knowledge base of the company
- Maintain healthy and stable relations with contractors, consultants and management
- Create and maintained well developed internal and external network
- Liaise with external engineering companies to share knowledge and benchmark
'11. Lead interactions with Service Providers and Consultants and senior Affiliate management
- Creating effective stakeholder and expert networking relationships (e.g. customers, suppliers, universities and specialist bodies)
- Ensure high levels of credibility, influence, trust and respect with internal/external customers
- Participate and lead discussions with service providers and consultants
- Professional communication of expertise (best practices, technical reports, position statement) in a collaborative and consultative approach which consistently meet business needs
- Develop and facilitate the implementation of new solutions in area of expertise
- Participate in and maintained expert networks
- COMPETENCIES:
Technical/Functional
- Expert knowledge of relevant technical procedures, specifications and legal frameworks
- Expert knowledge of applicable engineering technologies
- Expert knowledge of the fundamentals of the value chain and business drivers (own and stakeholders)
- Expert proficiency in the application of appropriate technologies
- Expert technical analysis and problem solving capability
- Expert technical integration
- Expert capability implementing technical solutions
- Expert proficiency at conceptualising engineering solutions
- Expert capability making professional technical recommendations
- Expert risk analyses and management
- Expert in system/process optimisation
- Expert understanding of principles of total cost of ownership
- Expert knowledge of engineering design
- Expert ability to develop innovative technical solutions
- Excellent understanding of business processes and value chain in order to defend discipline value addition
- Expert Ability to balance financial, operational and technical requirements
- Expert knowledge of company standards, procedures and methods
Leadership
- Developing self and others
- Lead digitalisation within the function
- Change agent
- Provide technical leadership for senior Affiliate management
- Coaching and leadership
Safety
- Safety advocate - anywhere and everywhere
- Expert knowledge of applicable HSE legislation and regulations and its practical implications
- Concern for employees' wellbeing
- Ability to foster a safety culture
advanced ability , to lead and present incident investigations
