PE IV/Senior Project Engineer
Wood.com
Office
Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Full Time
Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood is recruiting for a Senior Project Engineer / PE IV to join our Project Management team in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
What we can offer
- Medical Insurance - Ensures specialist care is available to you and eligible family members residing in country. Pre-existing medical conditions are covered. No limit on number of children covered under the policy however age and coverage limits apply in line with KSA CCHI rules. Option to select higher medical cover payable at employees own expense.
- Employee Assistance Programme - Allows you to feel comfortable knowing that you or your immediate family members can confidentially discuss any work or personal issues that are an inevitable part of life. The program helps support your mental, physical, social & financial well-being.
- GOSI (Social Insurance) - Payable to KSA employees, social insurance contributions are paid by the company in line with Government legislation to cover occupational hazards.
- End of Service Gratuity - In line with KSA Labour Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit.
- Examination Leave - Upon company approval to enroll in an education institute or to continue within such institution, employees have the right to fully paid leave to sit for an examination of an unrepeated year. Leave duration is based on the days of actual examination and must be applied for no less than fifteen days prior exam
- Professional Memberships - One professional membership, registration, subscription, certification and/or license cost per annum for all active Wood employees. The membership must be relevant to the role you are currently employed in or be part of a development plan. Reimbursement should be claimed via the expenses procedure system, with supporting evidence.
- Inspire Awards - Our annual awards programme is all about recognising and celebrating our inspirational colleagues – those designing the future, upholding our values and playing a pivotal role in delivering our strategy. Employees can recognise those who inspire them and make their day by nominating them for their hard work, innovation and tenacity.
- 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’ service of our employees at 5 year service milestones.
- Career Development Champions - Prioritizes structured growth through goal setting and resource utilization. Employees use tools for planning and feedback, with managers actively coaching and mentoring to support advancement. Continuous learning and development are emphasized to help employees achieve their career goals effectively.
Project Deliverables
- Contributes to the Project Execution Plan, Discipline Design Instruction and Contract requisitions; prepares project plans and multi-discipline documents such as basis of design, subcontract scopes of work
- Able to manage and coordinate engineering multidiscipline inputs and deliverables across multiple execution centers including workshare / high value engineering centers
Quality, HSE and Assurance
- Understands and works to quality system; monitors and acts on deficiencies
- Checks Health, Safety, Environment and Security (HSES) issues are identified and addressed in design, manufacture, construction, commissioning and operations
- Develops Project Specific Procedures
- Ensures that the Engineering disciplines comply strictly with the contract and scope of work in completing project activities
- Responsible for assuring quality of engineering deliverables before issue to customer
- Chairs technical meetings with Third Parties and manages particular technical issues through to completion
Development and Management of Schedule
- Plans individual work activities and manages time; liaises with disciplines to ensure timely receipt of comments
- Inputs to work plan, sets targets and holds regular reviews
- Expedite Engineers to deliver to schedule, fully understand reasons for delay and drive development of recovery plans
- Resolves most delays or changes and escalates only most serious issues
Change Management
- Highlights and quantifies changes that impacts work
- Able to effect change when approved
- People Management Supervises work of technical professionals in the delivery of engineering deliverables including checking work
- Coordinates medium sized interdisciplinary team (typically 10-50)
- Communicates to facilitate work effort; motivates team; strong, positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude
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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s (minimum) degree or Masters (preferred) in an engineering discipline
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in Project Engineering in EPC on Oil and Gas or Petrochemical projects
- Professional Engineer or engineering chartership preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent qualification preferred
Knowledge, Skills And Experience:
- Incumbents typically require 8+ years relevant industry project execution experience, preferably with construction site experience
- Fully understands technical work scopes including commercial aspects and has working knowledge of specifications and standards
- Completely familiar with project Contractual and Commercial requirements and able to communicate these to less experienced project engineers
- Fully conversant with project scopes and work carried out by all engineering disciplines and various interface and inter discipline coordination requirements among the various disciplines including procurement and construction., and able to communicate those to less experienced project engineers
- Understands the concept of customer satisfaction and is able to deliver to internal customers, including other Engineering disciplines
- Understands and knows how to apply the procedures and work practices which define and govern Engineering Management and Project Engineering deliverables
- Understands the importance of Project Engineering deliverables documents and the need for accuracy and timely issue
- Commercially astute and able to implement Change control
- Has a good knowledge of standards, procedures and work practices; follows project execution flow chart; good skills in project and technical execution
- Able to lead Project Engineering team; able to manage between Engineering Discipline Groups
- Good communicator in leading work effort; motivates team; positive and active in solutions and proactive attitude
- Competent at managing technical matters and interfaces with Third Parties.
Personal Attributes
- Has focus on customer satisfaction for both internal and external customers. Actively seeks feedback
- Able to drive project area to completion, taking ownership for all that occurs within it
- Actively looks to develop skills; monitors work done by others and provides positive feedback to improve
- Able to adapt to changing priorities
- Good communicator verbally and in written form
- Strong planning, organizing and execution skills
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Works effectively as a member of a team
- Thinks strategically, able to plan and lead change
- Builds collaboration and influences others to collaborate
- Empowers people, leads by example, recognizes and rewards good performance
- Able to make decisions, lead execution, take initiative and seek out improvements
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.
PE IV/Senior Project Engineer
Office
Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Full Time
October 9, 2025