Discipline Manager - Piping

People:

• In conjunction with Head of Discipline, manages succession planning and delivery on behalf of the discipline.
• Assures & provides coaching and mentoring for direct reports.
• Actively supports recruitment, selection, transfers and promotion of resources to meet Engineering contract requirements.
• Set and maintain standards for the development and retention of motivated and competent people.
• Ensures competence of deputies.
• Manages performance of direct reports.
  

Process Ownership:

• Continuous promotion of discipline specific procedures.
• Development and delivery of the technical safety standard expectations and technical assurance
• Develop, set and own competence standards.
• Monitor compliance with competence standards.
• Participate in or lead incident investigations as required.
• Represent Operations MEAC discipline in the contract.
• Set performance expectations for direct reports.
  

Subject Matter Expertise:

• Actively maintaining own competence and continuous development.
• Provide discipline support to the business.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory framework and legislation.
• Provide guidance on regulatory framework, legislation changes, initiatives and industry technology developments.
• Perform the role of level 2 Technical Authority when appointed to do so.

General:

• Deputising for operations MEAC Head of Discipline as required.
• Supporting and supervising tasks delegated to respective team.
• Executing assigned business objectives.
• Management of key stakeholders in the execution and delivery of contracted activities.
• Manage and direct resources efficiently and effectively.
• Interact with Multi-Discipline Engineering teams.
• Provide engineering input to project estimates.
• Perform the role of Technical Authority when appointed to do so.

Internal:

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate across the business interfaces.
• Engage with inter-discipline community and promote discipline including networking / knowledge sharing i.e., GTEN
• Maintain communication with Head of Discipline and Engineering Manager
• Manage interfaces across functional and business boundaries.
• Maintain communication with Graduates and Associate Designers to ensure they are receiving development and training opportunities.
  

External:

Communicate and co-operate with external stakeholders including industry bodies, academia, vendors, client interface (as appropriate and requested), market intelligence, relevant conferences, and business development.

• As delegated by Engineering Manager.
• All personnel within the Operations EMEA Discipline Engineering community.
• Management of change (people and process).
• Organisational change.
• As per technical authority matrix.

Qualifications:

• MSc, MEng or equivalent professional qualification or BSc, BEng or equivalent with extensive relevant experience.
• Chartered Engineer or recognized equivalent
  

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Experienced Piping Discipline Manager with experience of managing and leading Piping Engineering and Design teams.
  

Minimum Experience:

• Demonstrable balance of industrial and management experience at relevant level and position.
  

Role-Specific Skills:

• Intellectually capable, can substantiate the ability to apply theory in a practical context.
• Capable use of discipline software and proactively encourage development.
• Professional demeanour, strong interpersonal skills.
• Able to demonstrate team building skills and capable of influencing people at all levels of the organisation.
• Enthusiastic, conscientious, and keen to learn.
• Flexible with a can-do attitude.

Personal attributes:

Core Values and Behaviours:

Provide strong leadership in promoting, demonstrating and being a role model in accordance with company core values and ethics policy.

People:

• Competent in forecast planning for people resources.
• Competent in people interviewing, selection, communication and management including performance management.
• Proactively always interact with team members in a positive and professional manner.
  

Process:

Plans, monitors and audits compliance with standards and processes to assure continuous improvement.

Subject Matter Expertise:

• Competent in knowledge of regulatory framework and associated legislation.
• Competent in own particular area of expertise to provide support to the business.
• Demonstrate current knowledge with industry and technology development within discipline.
• Demonstrate continual professional development.
  

General Competencies:

• Communication in written and spoken forms.
• Audit and incident investigations lead.
• Project management.
• Mediator
• Financial & Commercial awareness.