Instrumentation, Controls and Telecommunications Department Manager

Wood Plc


Overview / Responsibilities:

Wood, a global engineering and consultancy organization, has an opening for an Instrumentation, Controls and Telecommunications (ICT) Department Manager to join our vibrant and growing Oil & Gas Canada business in Calgary, Alberta.
Our office provides full engineering, procurement and construction services in Western Canada for the oil, gas, chemicals and energy transition markets. We provide full asset life-cycle solutions for the mineable, in-situ, midstream and downstream sectors. We have over 700 people in Calgary committed to delivering outstanding projects to our clients.
We are focused on growth, developing our employees, and empowering our teams. In our everyday actions, we encourage all staff to have the care, commitment, and courage to continue to make our work possible.
Our projects team in Calgary has a long history of delivering some of the biggest and most complex projects in the Canadian oilsands, along with associated pipelines and refinery infrastructure. Wood has a strong presence in the energy transition supporting the rapidly growing decarbonization and renewables industry in Canada and across the globe.
Join a culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible to seek the best solutions for our clients across Canada. Our teams are making it a priority to develop flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs, through our Hybrid working model.
From technical experts to our next generation of leaders, we’re invested in your future, whatever path you choose. Come and sharpen your skills for the future, through challenging technical and advisory work and collaboration with our global network of technical experts.
Come and join a winning team! Come and join #TeamWood!
Reporting to the corporate engineering manager, this role has overall responsibility for development, management and technical leadership of the Calgary, Leduc and Sarnia ICT engineering and design teams. If you have a successful track record and thrive on challenges, this is the opportunity for you.
The ICT department manager ensures that projects are properly resourced, provides direction & mentorship to project staff, maintains effective lines of communication, and fosters a good working relationship with internal and external Clients. Coordination of multi-office work with Wood’s Oil & Gas Office in Calgary, Global SMEs and Global Execution Centres to provide the required engineering resources for the project.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Drive Health Safety Security Environment & Assurance (HSSEA) culture and performance
  • Ensure discipline engineering integrity is maintained across work scopes
  • Drive elimination of technical incidents through robust controls, incident reviews and embedding progressive learnings and best practice from across the organization in the discipline engineering team
  • Support technical assurance activities, including conducting audits and participating in technical incident investigations
  • Provide discipline personnel to deliver work scopes in line with company policies and procedures and within customer requirements
  • Manage and work within departmental overhead budgets and manage utilization of resources vs workload
  • Establish and continuously improve engineering systems and tools required by the discipline to deliver cost effective and competitive engineering execution
  • Plans and prioritizes work to meet discipline commitments aligned with organizational goals. Looks ahead to determine and obtain required resources to complete plans
  • Identify and pursue innovation opportunities for discipline, including emerging technologies within the discipline area
  • In conjunction with senior management, participates in formulation and subsequent implementation of Wood policies, procedures, instructions, forms and standards
  • Provide support to the business development process to identify and win new work
  • Collaboratively produce discipline input to proposals with other discipline leads and managers
  • Secure future resource and capability requirements within the discipline area to deliver current and future projects and take a lead on recruitment and selection of resources.
  • Implement formal development frameworks for a substantial department, ensuring the development of personnel to take more senior roles as their career progresses. Maintain succession plans for the discipline.
  • In parallel with other line or functional managers as appropriate, identify the discipline team’s individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities.
  • Ensure that appropriate and effective competence assurance is in place for assigned discipline group
  • Identification of competence gaps in discipline group and identify/organize technical training or on the job development to close gaps
  • Builds an inclusive team culture which recognizes the value that different perspectives and cultures bring
  • Coordinate with the Human Resources team for recruiting as well as developing engineering and design staff, establishing best-in-class professional competencies, to grow and expand the technical capabilities of the group
  • Develop and maintain the relevant discipline software tools in line with Wood policies and procedures.

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited engineering curriculum with a minimum of 15 years’ experience
  • Registration as a P. Eng. in Alberta is mandatory with 15 to 25 years of broad and extensive experience in Oil, Gas & Chemicals projects
  • Must possess a high degree of originality, skill and proficiency in the various broad phases of engineering application and knowledge of quality management, human resources, financial and other administrative principles and practices
  • Must be eligible for professional registration in other provinces across Canada
  • Extensive broad and deep experience of engineering delivery in one or more relevant industry sectors
  • Expert level experience and understanding of discipline engineering tools and processes
  • Broad understanding of the business drivers for relevant industry sector clients.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
  • Able to attract top talent to meet current and future business needs
  • Experienced in developing talent using coaching, mentoring and formal performance processes
  • Diplomatic and collaborative approach to managing interactions between company and client teams.

Company Overview:

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

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.

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