Mechanical Engineer - Operations & Maintenance

Role overview

Job objectives

• Provide mechanical engineering support for site operations and collaborate with site teams to progress longer-term engineering solutions.
• Reduce asset risks and support production reliability, optimization, and growth.

Operations support

• Resolve immediate operational issues with site teams under the direction of the Operations Engineering Manager.
• Assess mechanical engineering risks and drive actions to reduce them within agreed timeframes.
• Define static mechanical engineering operating envelopes and monitor static equipment health.
• Record and investigate excursions outside operating envelopes.
• Monitor static mechanical engineering KPIs and initiate corrective actions.
• Support Management of Change and Engineering Queries.
• Identify production vulnerabilities and optimization opportunities.
• Write, review, and provide technical input to Site Operations Procedures.
• Coach client engineers and maintain discipline technical documentation.

Qualifications and experience

• BSc, BEng, MEng, or international equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant engineering subject.
• Professional accreditation as a Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer.
• Significant operations mechanical engineering support experience.
• Advanced engineering knowledge and knowledge of relevant industry codes, standards, and regulations.
• Ability to guide designs and systems that prevent, control, and mitigate risks.
• Sound stakeholder management experience.

Workplace and project context

• The position is described as a full-time, on-site role in Sharjah.
• The posting also describes rotational support and remote engineering work connected with Wood’s Iraq operations, creating a conflicting workplace and project-context reference.

About Wood

Benefits

• The posting describes medical insurance, professional development, and access to global industry connections.