Principal Engineer, Benchmarking

Job Description

• JOB DETAILS:
  
  

Position Title: Senior Engineer: Projects

Broad Band: E1: M10: Professional

Reports to

Department & Function

Job Code:

Date Prepared/Revised

Talent Pipeline Layer: Managing Self Technical/Professional

• OVERALL JOB PURPOSE:
  
  

Drive Ma’aden’s major capital projects to successful completion by providing expert technical leadership for the preparation, pre-planning and resource forecasting for engineering and other technical activities relating to these projects

• QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
  
  

Qualification

• Bachelors of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 2 years as Snr Engineer
• Masters of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 2 years as Snr Engineer
• PhD + 1,5 year as Snr Engineer
  
  

Experience

6 years experience as Engineer (subject to qualification)

International experience advantages

Skills

• Expert in analysis and modelling of engineering components, systems, processes
• Effective leadership and management skills
• Operational improvement optimisation, balancing technical, operational and financial requirements
• Advanced competence performing risk Management/Analysis
• Managing portfolios of projects
• Resilience
• Intercultural intelligence
• Conceptualising engineering components, systems
• Able to independently manage own work planning and delivery according to targets; proven application
• Advanced knowledge of technical trends, interpretation and application of industry knowledge
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Expert analytical and problem solving skills
• Results driven (meeting customer expectations)
• Research and development
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Management skills
• Competent in managing projects
• Sound decision making skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Advanced persuading and influencing skills
• Ability to think and interact globally
• Change agent
• Creating and innovating
• Design thinking
• KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  
  

Focus Area

Operational / Functional

Legal

• Consistently delivers on all service level agreements
• Quality results through cost effective service and on time support
• Cost awareness and control
• Technical expertise and advice
• Technical/operating systems and models
• HSE targets
• Play a lead role for a portfolio of projects
• Solve problems involving multiple stakeholders
• Identify, prioritise, and select stakeholder needs in order to set specific technical requirements (involves pre-empting known and unknown)
• Translate stakeholders needs/wants into specific technical deliverables
• Independent idea generation within multi-disciplines/multi-affiliate (tactical impact)
• Analyse work processes and implement actions to improve own team's technical performance
• Develop quality standards, specifications and technical requirements
• Ensure quality of a function's technical delivery by the review and sign off of technical work within the discipline
• Take decisions which optimise total cost of ownership
• Balance cost, schedule, quality as per risk level
• Review policies, procedures and methods and develop where necessary; apply policies with discretion
• Ensure that the quality of decision making with regards to projects are high
• Solve problems on affiliate level and impact related affiliate by enhancing meaningful steps (define, defend, enhance)
• Verify quality of group delivery; manage junior staff
• Continuously research the field of expertise to develop the area with the company; improve technology application and integration
• 'Interpret the desired outcome into a detailed plan that can be implemented by a project team
• Plan and forecast of the project
• Acquire appropriate staff, materials, and equipment
• Liaise with contractors, suppliers and internal company stakeholders
• Keep the project on schedule (according to plan and stage gates)
• Keep the project on budget
• Man management of the project team (internal and in-sourced people resources)
• Ongoing report of the project progress
• Ensure that all aspects of the project proceed while adhering to Ma'aden's SOPs as well as external regulations and laws – this includes maintenance of project documentation
• Troubleshooting problems as they arise on a project – finding efficient and effective solutions
  
  

Register project in accordance with Ma'aden's procedures and systems

Responsible for the development, updating and implementation of project execution plans for all projects

Responsible for developing quality estimates and control base with quality cost control for all projects

Responsible for developing and managing of realistic schedule on projects

Ensure proper governance is in place and complied too on all projects, i.e. steering committees, gate reviews, decision review boards, Legal and Commercial requirements and audits

Responsible for meeting cash flow targets on all projects

Meet risk management requirements on all projects

Ensure that all appropriate functions are timely allocated and represented on all projects

Ensure that quality front-end-loading is done on all projects

Ensure that all project meet safety requirements

Handover and close-out of projects as per Ma'aden's technology requirements

Consistently deliver solutions which contributes to business results and improved competitiveness

Deliver quality cost effective solutions on time and within risk parameters

Accept and implement advice given on programmes and systems

Responsible for gate reviews and decision review board are implemented on all projects

Ensure that all legal requirements on projects are implemented, i.e. safety appointments, competition requirements, etc.

Responsible for completeness and accuracy of project reports and relevant documentation/administration

Leadership

• Understand, support and live the Ma'aden vision, values and goals
• Takes accountability for personal improvement, personal development, skills development and effectiveness
• Supports and articulate personal goals that are aligned to the business direction, that lead to personal development and effectiveness; Continuously strives to improve personal mastery, professional growth and business skills (ensuring technical/professional development in specialist area)
• Establish professional standards for work, project plans and organization to ensure service provision and effective individual contribution
• Share expertise freely and often during the application/review of policies, practices, standards, procedures and methods
• Conduct analysis to formulate recommendations and design solutions and implement them effectively, problem solving and decisions quality - Analysed, formulated recommendations, designed solutions and implemented them effectively
• Progress monitoring, reporting and corrective action
• Statutory compliance and professional practices
• Get results through empowering others to act
• Mentor
• Ensure team motivation and team wellness
• Live company values and ensures compliance of team to the values
• Apply new ideas and work methods and opportunities for improving business results through team engagement
• Influence senior Affiliate management through technical leadership
• Ensuring continuous personal and professional growth and development
• Improve group work processes and play leading role in implementation of new ideas/opportunities
• Facilitating transformation and change processes
• Facilitating continuous improvement
• Communicate best practices, technical reports and positions statements with the appropriate stakeholders
• Lead discussions with contractors and licensors
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of appropriate business solutions
• Idea generation through facilitating an interdisciplinary team
• Provide input on medium and long term technical strategies
• Influence technical integration between cross boundary business teams
• Provide technical coaching, mentoring and training to team members
• Lead team across functions, disciplines and business environments (management track)
• Solve more strategic technical problems on Affiliate level and impact value chain (Functional tech)
• Responsible allocation of and motivation to secure resources (management)
• Play a technical leadership role in a portfolio of projects
• Lead team and remove obstacles to achieve and improve results (management)
• Interpret and execute strategy
• Develop technically orientated and appropriate business solutions
• Participate in the planning of research programmes
  
  

Relationships

• Build constructive working relationships with manager, peers, clients and other service providers (all stakeholders) to ensure effective stakeholder relationships
• Supports peers/team members to achieve team objectives through knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration with colleagues and other teams
• Maintain Manager and peer relationships marked by professional communication, behaviour and actions that results in high levels of credibility, trust and respect throughout the business unit or function
• Consistently meet customer and business requirements through technical/professional communication
• Puts forward new ideas, thinking and approaches adopted and supported by the business
• Facilitate effective communication up and down from management and also within own and other stakeholder teams
• Network and collaborate with service providers (e.g. SC, finance, HR, IT, etc)
• Build and maintain sound relationships with contractors, consultants and external service providers
• Identify and support inter-dependencies (synergies) with own and other departments within the value chain
• Build and maintain sound networking with external professional bodies/forums
• Build credibility and constructive working relationship with teams, managers and business leaders to enhance the knowledge base of the company
• Create and maintain well developed internal and external network
• Liaise with external engineering companies to share knowledge and benchmark
• COMPETENCIES:
  
  

Technical/Functional

Project management principles

Advanced

Ma’aden specific business processes relevant technical procedures, specifications

Advanced

Project management (major capex projects)

Expert

Different project execution strategies

Advanced

Different contracting strategies

Advanced

Estimation and cost control

Advanced

SHERQ requirements

Advanced

Construction management principles

Advanced

Application of Stage Gate process (Ma’aden and Affiliates)

Advanced

Total project life cycle economy insight

Advanced

Total business project value chain insight

Advanced

Total value chain planning / scheduling

Advanced

Cost estimating analytical techniques

Advanced

Problem solving & facilitation

Advanced

Risk analyses and management

Advanced

Knowledge of and legal frameworks

Advanced

Knowledge of the fundamentals of the value chain and business drivers (own and stakeholders)

Advanced

Leadership

• Developing self
• Embrace digitalisation within the function
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Continuous improvement
• Performance management process and system
• General knowledge of people related policies, regulations and processes
• Contribute to establish Ma'aden as 3rd pillar of KSA economy
• Ability to transfer knowledge within own team
• Coaching and leadership
  
  

Safety

• Safety advocate - anywhere and everywhere
• Sound knowledge and application of HSE rules and procedures
• Concern for own wellbeing and that of others
• Ability to pro-actively identifying safety hazards and act accordingly