Operation Engineer

Role overview

Objectives and delivery

• Support safe, efficient, and compliant O&M delivery using field experience, discipline knowledge, and practical engineering judgment.
• Provide technical support to operations, maintenance, delivery, and plant teams; troubleshoot queries, site issues, and operational challenges.
• Support KPI delivery, performance reporting, and identification of improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to O&M procedures, standards, work instructions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare, review, update, and support implementation of O&M procedures, work instructions, method statements, and technical documentation.
• Promote compliance with company, client, regulatory, and project requirements; participate in audits, assurance reviews, incident investigations, and lessons learned.
• Provide technical and operational input to tenders, proposals, bid clarifications, technical schedules, execution plans, and mobilization planning.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, project delivery, commercial, and business development teams.
• Engage with site personnel and support site delivery; liaise under supervision with clients, vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Maintain technical competence, share field lessons, and act in accordance with HSEA expectations and company ethical standards.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree or equivalent qualification in an engineering, operations, or maintenance discipline.
• At least two years of relevant O&M project experience in the MEAC region.
• Relevant O&M field experience is advantageous.
• Practical experience delivering O&M contracts and understanding of procedures, work instructions, technical standards, assurance, and safe systems of work.
• Able to develop technical documentation and provide practical input and operational assumptions for tender and proposal work.

Knowledge and personal attributes

• Good written and verbal communication, including clear technical writing; collaborative across site, contract, engineering, commercial, and business development teams.
• Basic awareness of regulatory, client, and company requirements applicable to O&M delivery.
• Practical, solutions-focused, organized, and able to use engineering judgment, take initiative, and meet deadlines.
• Arabic and French speaking are advantageous.

Travel and site locations

• Travel and site work may include onshore and offshore locations in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and other African regions.

Clients and projects

What Wood offers

• The posting mentions professional development, medical insurance, life and personal accident insurance, an employee share plan, and long-service awards.
• Wood describes meaningful projects, global professional connections, diversity and inclusion commitments, and regular salary reviews; no salary cadence or amount is specified.