DescriptionWood is currently looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer to join our team in Basra, Iraq on 6 weeks on 2 weeks off rotation
Responsibilities
Role Responsibilities:
- Assume sole responsibility for managing the electrical engineering and design teams on the contract.
- Ensure all team members are competency assessed and maintain team competency in line with company requirements.
- Hold single-point responsibility for all electrical engineering deliverables, ensuring they conform to applicable engineering codes, standards, and Client’s policies and procedures.
- Manage and report progress of all electrical engineering and design budgets in line with contract requirements.
- Manage engineering and design resource requirements in line with contract requirements.
- Ensure compliance with management of change processes, both technical and financial.
- Provide direction and guidance on technical queries relating to electrical engineering and raise appropriate EQ’s/deviations.
- Participate in all project safety and design reviews as necessary.
- Ensure all work is completed without compromise to quality and is delivered according to the project schedule.
- Promote safe behavior at all times.
- Provide sound technical advice and solutions to a diversity of technical problems within the discipline.
- Coordinate with other disciplines during all stages of design development, construction, pre-commissioning, and start-up.
- Provide technical support to the site in terms of material inspection, Factory Acceptance Testing, etc.
- Assist in the coordination of all activities related to electrical systems.
- Identify any areas of concern with respect to progress and/or quality and recommend corrective actions as required.
- Attend weekly progress meetings and generate status reports for the Engineering/Project Manager.
- Promote and encourage smarter ways of working and champion continuous improvement within your department.
- Ensure all lessons learned are captured and shared.
Qualifications
- Degree qualification in Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industries.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of electrical system design and analysis.
- Thorough awareness of international codes and standards.
- Familiarity with typical software packages used for electrical system design and selection, including E3D and Smartplant.
- Experience in participating in HAZID, HAZOP, and IPF/SIL Classification studies.
- Experience with Concept Selection and FEED studies.