1. JOB DETAILS:
Position Title: Manager: Engineering
Broad Band: M13: Senior Management
Talent Pipeline Layer: Managing Others (MO)
2. OVERALL JOB PURPOSE:
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)
3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
Qualification:
1. Bachelors of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 4 years as Lead Engineer
2. Masters of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 2 years as Lead Engineer
Experience:
1. 15 years experience as Engineer (subject to qualification)
2. International experience preferred
Skills:
1. Expert in analysis and modelling of engineering components, systems, processes
2. Effective leadership and management skills
3. Ability to deal with unknown, combine unrelated data and information to create new insight
4. Expert discipline knowledge
5. Strategic thinking
6. Design thinking
7. Expert knowledge of technical trends, interpretation and application of industry knowledge
8. Effective leadership and management skills
9. Creating and innovating
10. Discernment
11. Expert competence performing risk Management/Analysis
12. Leading portfolios of projects
13. Resilience
14. Intercultural intelligence
15. Expert in conceptualising engineering components, systems
16. Effective verbal and written communication skills
17. Expert analytical and problem solving skills
19. Results driven (meeting customer expectations)
20. Research and development
21. Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
22. Presentation and facilitation skills
23. Expert persuading and influencing skills
24. Ability to think and interact globally
25. Change agent
26. epxert , presentation and negotiation skills
4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Focus Area
Get results through individual contributions
Operational / Functional
1. Self & team consistently meets targets, due dates and quality standards (production, service, advice, etc.)
2. Achieve Quality targets by consistently reducing all non-value-adding work
3. Cost target achievement by consistently improving team productivity
4. All Plans and team objectives consistently executed and achieved in a safe working environment
5. Productivity target achievement
6. Achievement of Saudization targets
7. Play a lead role for a portfolio of projects
8. Solve problems involving multiple stakeholders (e.g. on related Affiliate level and impact value chains)
9. Identify, prioritise, and select stakeholder needs in order to set specific technical requirements (involves pre-empting known and unknown)
10. Translate stakeholders needs/wants into specific technical deliverables
11. Improve technology application and integration
12. Independent idea generation within multi-disciplines/multi-affiliate (strategic impact)
13. Develop work processes and implement actions to improve the multi discipline's and/or industry performance
14. Define, interpret, defend and approve quality standards, specifications and technical requirements
15. Ensure quality of a function's technical delivery by the review and sign off of multi-disciplinary technical work
16. Take decisions which optimise total cost of ownership
17. Balance cost, schedule, quality as per risk level
18. Take accountability for risk decisions through appropriate evaluation and risk mitigation practices
19. Develop and review policies, procedures and methods and develop where necessary; apply policies with discretion
20. Ensure that the quality of decision making with regards to projects are high
21. Solve problems on affiliate level and impact related affiliate by enhancing meaningful steps (define, defend, enhance)
22. Verify quality of group delivery; manage junior staff
23. Continuously research the field of expertise to develop the area with the company; improve technology application and integration
24. Conduct Research & Development that leads to new solutions being implemented in the Affiliate
25. Question existing work practices
Leadership
1. Establish High performance in the team through Goal clarity and alignment of all team members (performance direction)
2. 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
3. Increase the Team skill level, succession and career progressions though by enabling the achievement of development objectives for one self and all team members
4. Change management and communication well communicated and effectively executed across the business
5. Quality diversity decisions on opportunity utilization (Employee Movements)
6. Creates a high performance culture and values driven environment (team motivation and wellness) by Improving engagement and enablement levels that results in high performance
7. Governance and legal compliance (audits and inspection)
8. work alignment and collaboration across boundaries (value chain)
9. Resources availability and optimization by ensuring that Cost effective resources are available for results delivery on a daily basis
10. Diverse succession pipeline planning and retention
13. Influence senior Affiliate management through technical leadership
14. Ensuring continuous personal and professional growth and development
15. Improve group work processes and play leading role in implementation of new ideas/opportunities
16. Facilitating transformation and change processes
17. Facilitating continuous improvement
18. Communicate best practices, technical reports and positions statements with the appropriate stakeholders
19. Lead discussions with contractors and licensors
20. Develop and facilitate the implementation of appropriate business solutions
21. Idea generation through facilitating an interdisciplinary team
22. Provide input on medium and long term technical strategies
23. Influence technical integration between cross boundary business teams
24. Provide technical coaching, mentoring and training to team members
25. Lead team across functions, disciplines and business environments (management track)
26. Solve more strategic technical problems on Affiliate level and impact value chain (Functional tech)
27. Responsible allocation of and motivation to secure resources (management)
28. Play a technical leadership role in a portfolio of projects
29. Lead team and remove obstacles to achieve and improve results (management)
30. Interpret and execute strategy
31. Develop technically orientated and appropriate business solutions
32. Participate in the planning of research programmes
Relationships
1. Fully understand customer and supplier needs and ensure customer/partner service level agreements
2. Build effective working relationship with managers, peers, team members, customers and suppliers
3. Liaison with service and support functions/upstream – downstream interface management
4. Ensure knowledge transfer within own area of responsibility
5. Build effective networks (internal and external) to the benefit of the team
6. Use opportunities and appropriate communication tools to effectively communicate information to the team
7. Build credibility and constructive working relationship with teams, managers and business leaders to enhance the knowledge base of the company
8. Maintain healthy and stable relations with contractors, consultants and management
9. Create and maintained well developed internal and external network
10. Liaise with external engineering companies to share knowledge and benchmark
'11. Lead interactions with Service Providers and Consultants and senior Affiliate management
12. Creating effective stakeholder and expert networking relationships (e.g. customers, suppliers, universities and specialist bodies)
13. Ensure high levels of credibility, influence, trust and respect with internal/external customers
14. Participate and lead discussions with service providers and consultants
15. Professional communication of expertise (best practices, technical reports, position statement) in a collaborative and consultative approach which consistently meet business needs
16. Develop and facilitate the implementation of new solutions in area of expertise
17. Participate in and maintained expert networks
5. COMPETENCIES:
Technical/Functional
1. Expert knowledge of relevant technical procedures, specifications and legal frameworks
2. Expert knowledge of applicable engineering technologies
3. Expert knowledge of the fundamentals of the value chain and business drivers (own and stakeholders)
4. Expert proficiency in the application of appropriate technologies
5. Expert technical analysis and problem solving capability
6. Expert technical integration
7. Expert capability implementing technical solutions
8. Expert proficiency at conceptualising engineering solutions
9. Expert capability making professional technical recommendations
10. Expert risk analyses and management
11. Expert in system/process optimisation
12. Expert understanding of principles of total cost of ownership
13. Expert knowledge of engineering design
14. Expert ability to develop innovative technical solutions
15. Excellent understanding of business processes and value chain in order to defend discipline value addition
16. Expert Ability to balance financial, operational and technical requirements
17. Expert knowledge of company standards, procedures and methods
Leadership
• Developing self and others
• Lead digitalisation within the function
• Change agent
1. Provide technical leadership for senior Affiliate management
2. 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