Principal Civil Engineer
About the company
Worley, vision, purpose & values Understands and communicates Worley’s vision and strategy and translates the strategy into practical goals and objectives for people in his/her team.
Your tasks
Business development support Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as customers, suppliers, and contractors. Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. Will be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal. Functions as a departmental representative at various meetings; may serve on behalf of superior as assigned.
Business operations Planning of manhour budgets, schedules, manpower loadings, and staffing requirements, by skill and experience, to satisfy project requirements and direction given by the Discipline Manager. Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences. Mentors, trains, and supports the delivery of training. Assists in the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes. Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
Technical competency Ensures team member adherence to accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates. Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Identifies software necessary to enable Civil Structural group to function effectively. Provides specialist technical support, supervision, and advice to the discipline and project teams; participates in peer reviews. Completed structural analysis and design of on-shore oil and gas processing facilities (concrete and structural steel piperacks, storage tanks foundation, vertical vessels foundations, horizontal vessels and heat exchangers foundation, and pipe supports, etc.), infrastructures (electrical substations, potable and foul water pumping stations and water tanks), and buildings (utility and non-utility buildings). Ensures recognized onshore and offshore engineering practices applicable to civil structural design engineering are adopted within the discipline. Reviews designs, sketches, and reports with supporting calculations for projects, and supplies drafting staff with information to assist in the production of detailed drawings, the development of quantities, materials lists, and cost estimates as required.
Project execution Participates in project execution strategy and planning. Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success. Encourages innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required. Collaborates with project team in review of project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets, and schedules. Leads weekly Civil Structural meetings, reviews progress reports, and required checking procedures. Initiates, manages, and supervises engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget. Organizes and manages all aspects of the workload of a team of Civil Structural discipline engineers and designers, within the parameters of a project schedule. Understands and applies the Project Execution Plan (PEP) requirements - makeup and application (including the Engineering Plan).
Project deliverables Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommends actions. Crafts recommendations and reviews final documentation prior to customer approval. Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc. Establishes a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors, and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule. Reviews final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval. Reviews similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports. Leads the production of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations, and reports. Focuses team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.
Procurement support Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities. Provides advice during procurement, construction, and commissioning activities. Liaises with suppliers, clients, consultants, or commissioning engineers concerning the design, installation, construction, and commissioning of assigned work. Competently reviews and comments on vendor data. Reviews technical bid analysis and associated reports.
Site support Leads on-site support for construction, commissioning, or turnover. Must be able to perform site visits and inspections, data gathering activities, and technical evaluations that are relevant to assigned tasks and works.
Quality assurance Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the quality assurance systems. Works with project managers/project engineers to ensure all projects are set up and executed in full compliance with all the requirements of the Worley Project Management Process (WPMP) and General Management System (EMS) using consistent approaches, work breakdown structures, work methodologies, and reporting systems. Monitors the closure of all identified risks and opportunities.
Safety Responsible for personal safety and safe working practices. Understands and follows OH&S procedures. Promotes health, safety, and environmental awareness.
Requirements
Job specific knowledge Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment. A thorough knowledge of the regulations, codes, and standards (American, British, and other international codes, standards, and specifications) and a good understanding of onshore and offshore engineering practices applicable to civil structural design for oil and gas facilities. Experience in brownfields and asset services type projects/contracts. Excellent technical and practical engineering skills and able to consistently deliver quality, accurate, and timely work to Worley and its clients. Expertise in engineering and designing of structures and foundations associated with oil & gas and infrastructure facilities. An excellent knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements. Competent in the use of relevant civil structural discipline specific software. Extensive knowledge and application of multi-level equipment structures, design of service roads, structural design of rigid pavements, structural design of flexible pavements, structural design of road bridges, design of culverts, design of drainage ditches, design of open channels, design of drain pipes, design of security fencing, design of security access, design of retaining walls and dyke walls, design of sump pits and lift stations, design of blast resistant buildings, and design of substations.
Essential competencies Deciding and initiating action: Initiates and introduces changes into work processes; Makes quick, clear decisions that may include tough choices or considered risks; Recognizes the need for improved systems/processes and proactively recommends, develops, and implements them. Proactively resolves any discrepancies between Worley and its client’s requirements.
Leading and supervising Provides team members with a clear direction; Sets appropriate standards of behaviour; Motivates and empowers others; Provides staff with development opportunities and coaching; Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions; Provides on the job training to others in the discipline team; Is able to assign team members to projects systematically to meet demands, taking into account the varying experience, competence, capability, and workload levels of individuals within the group; Helps team members feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions and meetings.
Persuading & influencing Gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, Convincing and negotiating; Promotes ideas on behalf of oneself or others; Makes a strong personal impact on others; Takes care to manage one’s impression on others.
Applying expertise & technology Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise; Uses technology to achieve work objectives; Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions; Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development; Keeps up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in the discipline; Specialized expertise in regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices; Implements innovative solutions and methods in self and team’s work.
Analyzing Is able to analyse engineering/design problems methodically and arrive at satisfactory solutions; Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; Makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis; Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system. Proficient in specialty engineering, analytics and modelling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.
Delivering results and meeting customer expectations Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction; Sets high standards for quality and quantity; monitors and maintains quality and productivity; Excellent customer focus and able to consistently meet Worley and its clients needs. Ensures design team aware of and complying with client’s basis of design and applicable regulations and codes. Pro-active, goal oriented with excellent attention to detail. Establishes and maintains good working relationships within Worley, with its clients and other stakeholders.
Desirable competencies Adhering to principles and values: Upholds ethics and Worley values; Demonstrates integrity as a person who is trusted by others and consistently honours their commitments; Promotes and defends equal opportunities; Builds diverse teams; Encourages organisational and individual responsibility towards the community and the environment.
Presenting & communicating information Speaks fluently; Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly; Makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence; Responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback; projects credibility; Regularly monitors the communication network between project staff, the client and third parties and introduces changes where required.
Creating and innovating Produces new ideas, approaches, or insights; Creates innovative products or designs; Produces a range of solutions to problems.
Adapting and responding to change Approaches change positively and drives change to improve systems; Accepts new ideas and change initiatives; Adapts interpersonal style to suit different people or situations. Effectively manages change to work tasks and the work environment and assists others with adapting to change.
Coping with pressures and setbacks Maintains a positive outlook at work; Works productively in a pressurised environment; Keeps emotions under control during difficult situations; Identifies issues and problems; makes timely decisions, develops appropriate and innovative solutions; Balances the demands of a work life and a personal life.
Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends; Identifies business opportunities for the organisation; Maintains awareness of developments in the organisational structure and politics; Demonstrates financial awareness; Controls costs and thinks in terms of profit, loss and added value.
Industry specific experience Extensive work experience at a senior level within the oil & gas industry. Minimum 15 years design experience within the oil and gas industry, with last 5 years at least leading a team of civil structural discipline engineers and designers. Extensive technical, practical and leadership experience in the civil structural discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
Education – qualifications, accreditation, training Full-time bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited university. MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period. Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.
HSE capability Maintains HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements. Demonstrates behavior and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance. Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to: personal well-being; healthy and safe workplaces and activities; and continuously improves Worley health, safety and environmental performance. Identifies and reports work hazards and incidents.
IT skills STAAD Pro, SACS, MathCad and MS Office software.
People skills Able to work in diverse teams. Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions. Highly effective people management skills such as leadership, team, interpersonal, coaching, mentoring and supervisory skills. Must be able to build, motivate, develop and manage an effective team. Highly effective management skills including the ability to plan, set goals; and manage time, priorities, resources, accountabilities, schedules and cost. Understands Worley vision and purpose, translates it into team goals and objectives, and gains team commitment to achieving those goals and objectives. Effectively manages and resolves conflict between individuals and/or groups. Negotiates successful outcomes that achieve the required objectives and have the support and acceptance of all parties.
Other Good English communication skills (spoken and written). Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, and make presentations when required. Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance. Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity. Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge within teams.