Senior Manager Engineering in Perth, Australia

Company Overview:

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Job Overview:

The Senior Manager Engineering is tasked with developing departmental plans, including business, production, and organizational priorities. The role requires multi-disciplinary expertise and the ability to understand the industry to achieve financial and operational objectives. The Senior Manager Engineering manages multiple related teams, sets their organizational priorities, and allocates the appropriate resources. They must identify and resolve complex technical, operational, and organizational problems. The Senior Manager Engineering directly impacts business results by supporting and function-specific projects, products, services, and technologies and developing policies and plans.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple related teams, set organizational priorities, and allocate resources

• Provide leadership to managers and professional staff

• Is accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams

• Develop departmental plans, including business, production, and/or organizational priorities

• Decisions are guided by resource availability and functional objectives

• Assign staffing for the departmental positions on projects and proposals

• Is responsible for administrative and technical management of the Engineering Department

• Identify performance gaps and corrects including systems, equipment, and people resources

• Provide leadership and instruction to their employees

• Ensure work is being coordinated between the other disciplines, offices, fabrication, and construction to meet project requirements

• Manage the technical execution to support the business considerations established for the project

• Is responsible for the administration and technical management of the department

• Execute annual appraisals of the employees

• Execute performance appraisals of agency personnel

• Collect/identify training requests/needs, review for justification, and facilitate implementation

• Provide regular performance feedback to the employees in the department

• Implement communication plan

• Support recruitment activities for their department

• Assure good team spirit in the department

• Identify high potentials and support the effort of providing them with suitable career opportunities

• Propose salary increases upon request of company management

• Support the execution plan preparation of every project

• Assign resources to projects and proposals

• Stay up to date with the status of all projects through the Lead Engineer

• Ensure execution of PEA reviews and IDR’s on projects

• Resolve findings and corrective actions as required

• Lead improvement initiatives within the department

• Support proposals as required

• Prepare or approve man-hours estimates

• Ensure the MPS system is kept up to date

• Establish a budget and salary plan for the department

• Identify and recruit staff for departmental positions

• Maintain staffing levels appropriate to the projected workload

• Provide leadership and training for the professional development of staff

• Responsible for the integrity of the work produced

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Liaise With: Project Engineers, Project Engineering Managers, Project Managers, Discipline Lead Engineers, Eng Dept Managers, Construction/Fabrication team, Project Controls, Finance, Proposals

Supervises: All discipline Managers, Engineers, Designers, and support personnel within the department

Essential Qualifications & Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Engineering

• 20+ years of experience and proven leadership experience

• Requires multi-disciplinary expertise within own discipline and knowledge of others

• Applies understanding of the industry to achieve financial and operational objectives

• Preferably Registered Professional Engineer or member of professional engineering society as applicable

• Seasoned knowledge of engineering standards and specifications

• Good overview of engineering software

• Good working knowledge of English, both oral and written

• HSE, TQM and cost-conscious

• Good organizer, motivator, and supervisor

• Keen on improving the effectiveness of the work

• Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to:

• The reassignment to other departments/construction sites/fabrication yards

• The managing/learning of current working methods and software applications

• The reassignment to other McDermott offices

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