Job Description

Overview / Responsibilities

Wood has an opening for a Mechanical Engineer for our Process & Energy office in Grande Prairie, Alberta. This thriving northern community is the hub for northern Alberta and British Columbia, stretching all the way into the Northwest Territories. With Forestry, Oil & Gas and Agriculture, the \xe2\x80\x98Peace\xe2\x80\x99 region also provides diverse challenges across a variety of industries and projects.

At Wood we believe that people are our greatest asset. Wood provides professionals with development opportunities and provides access to some of the most advanced tools globally you will be equipped to perform at your peak, on challenging projects both in the office and at client sites. If you are self-motivated and thrive on challenges in a fast-paced environment, this may be the opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building a collaborative and engaged engineering team through positive mentoring/coaching and other innovative strategies
• Creating an inclusive work environment with a focus on the health and safety of the Wood team, our clients and the communities which are impacted by our work
• Leading and supporting the discipline department heads in staffing, planning and delivering engineering for small, midsize, and large projects
• Recruiting, attracting, and developing project engineers and designers to meet the demands of the business
• Maintaining effective working relationships and communication with management, department heads and clients
• Ensuring project deliverables satisfy Wood standards and are implemented in a timely, cost effective and consistent manner while always considering safety in our designs
• Ensuring engineering delivery compliments construction requirements
• Conducting technical/design reviews and providing technical direction to project engineering teams
• Work closely with the business unit Chief Engineer to ensure that engineering delivery meets all internal and external code and quality requirements, and that procedures are reviewed and updated regularly to continuously improve efficiencies
• Managing the development, upgrading and upkeep of our engineering design platforms, and leading the migration of the engineering team to a fully data-centric delivery model
• Completing regular quality audits and engineering design reviews to ensure that engineering deliverables meet project delivery requirements and targets
• Monitoring and reporting on engineering performance with respect to budgets, schedules and productivity
• Work with the business development team and the discipline department heads to prepare/review/approve engineering budgets for proposals
• Developing, justifying and executing training plans to meet the development needs of the engineering team members and the department as a whole

Skills / Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or Master of Science in Engineering
• Minimum 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in an EP/EPC/EPCM project delivery environment, with a preference for individuals with experience in Forest Industries
• Experience in managing multi-office engineering delivery with international offices and stakeholders/clients
• Experience in delivery of engineering across all project phases and sizes
• Experience in managing engineering systems teams, with a preference for AVEVA IE&D/ERM (data-centric) environments
• Experience in the development and maintenance of engineering management systems, including catalogues of standards, procedures, instructions, specifications, and details
• Excellent English written and oral skills
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with customers and vendors

The successful candidate shall have experience and posses the physical ability to work out of the office on heavy industrial sites independently and safely.

This position is open to Canadian and USA applications only. Relocation allowances will be considered for qualified candidates.

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people.

Diversity Statement (EEO)

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.

John Wood Group