Study Manager - Gas Processing

Worley Consulting, the independent consulting business of Worley, has approximately 2,000 people in 25 countries around the globe, integrating strategy, management, and technical consulting expertise. We provide solutions for clients in the energy, chemical, and resource sectors, including power, renewables, water, hydrocarbons, minerals and metals, chemicals, and infrastructure industries.

We continue to push boundaries and extend our capabilities globally. We pride ourselves on providing safe, high-quality services that exceed our customers’ expectations. Our aim is to recruit, develop, and, most importantly, retain people who share our vision and strategy.

The regional EMEA Worley Consulting team is expanding. This role will support the growth of our UAE consulting business, with a particular focus on a key national energy customer and other major energy-sector clients. The work will cover complex consulting and early-phase development assignments, with an emphasis on gas processing, integrated gas developments, and high-end technical advisory support.

What we offer you

This is a senior study delivery role within our EMEA consulting practice, supporting the continued development of our UAE business and our work with key major energy-sector clients.

You will have the opportunity to lead multidisciplinary feasibility, concept selection, pre-FEED, and strategic consulting studies from mobilisation through to completion, with responsibility for both successful delivery and commercial performance.

The role offers exposure to major investment decisions, access to technical specialists across the wider Worley group, and a career path that can develop into client account leadership, business management, or broader consulting leadership.

Responsibilities and key accountabilities

• Lead multidisciplinary consulting, feasibility, concept selection, pre-FEED, and other early-phase studies.
• Take overall accountability for safe study execution, scope, schedule, cost, quality, and commercial performance.
• Establish the study execution strategy, work plan, deliverables, resourcing requirements, and interfaces.
• Act as the primary point of contact with the client throughout execution and maintain focus on the required decisions and outcomes.
• Coordinate engineering, technical, commercial, and specialist contributors across multiple disciplines and locations.
• Lead study kick-offs, progress reviews, workshops, and key decision-making sessions.
• Proactively manage budgets, variations, scope changes, risks, opportunities, and interfaces.

Qualities and experience

The following are preferred:

• More than 15 years of relevant industry experience, including significant experience leading multidisciplinary feasibility, concept, and front-end studies.
• Demonstrated experience delivering studies and projects within the energy, oil and gas, or related industries.
• Strong project and commercial management capability, including control of budgets, schedules, scope, and change.
• Strong experience working in the Middle East and an understanding of top-tier energy-sector expectations, project environments, and ways of working.
• Confident client-facing and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to present complex issues clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to provide direction to multidisciplinary teams while maintaining focus on the overall business case and client objectives.

Preferred qualifications and requirements

• Degree in chemical or process engineering, or a closely related discipline. Chartered status or equivalent professional recognition is preferred.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Based in Abu Dhabi or willing to relocate to the UAE.
• Willing to travel on short-duration regional and international business trips as required.

Worley Consulting offers an excellent remuneration and benefits package, a friendly, professional, dynamic, and flexible work environment, and the opportunity to develop your career prospects within the UAE and internationally.

We strive to be an industry leader in health, safety, and environmental performance. Our vision is to achieve zero harm to people and assets, and zero environmental incidents. We select people who share our values, beliefs, and commitment to this vision, and who demonstrate the expected behaviours, competencies, and performance associated with their prospective roles within the company.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Worley Consulting is an equal opportunity employer.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energised and empowered to drive sustainable impact. Our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We’re building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace—a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we’re not just talking about it; we’re doing it. We’re reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today’s low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here.

There’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.