Head of Department for Telecoms

• Company values are at the heart of everything we do. They make us unique, inspire our success, and guide our decisions and actions. The employee will be aligned to these values, always striving to be safe, ethical, innovative, responsive, quality and cost conscious and driven to deliver.
• Allocate appropriate discipline resources for the preparation of proposals, FEED Verification and detailed engineering on projects.
• Prepare verbal or written reports as required, stating the current workload in the group and whether it will meet set targets. If not, give the reasons why not and list the steps taken, or which need to be taken, to get back on target.
• Liaise closely with the various Engineers/Head of Dept for whom the group is doing work. This will enable the latest developments, which may affect the schedule to be ascertained. Advise them of problem areas.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cross-organizational project teams to give advice to customers and peer groups on technology solutions.
• Make sure that all the information needed by engineers to perform their work is available before they need it so that work progresses at a smooth and steady pace, on time and on target.
• Ensure that work done in the discipline is accurate and correct.
• Provide assessments for the Engineering, on the performance of the various engineers/designers.
• Perform checking functions for more junior engineers by signing QA/QC check sheets.
• Ensure that any necessary reference material is readily available to engineers whether it be a National or Client Standard, Procedure, or recognized Code of Practice. Also, ensure that the most used vendor literature is available.
• Allocate work packages to suitable engineers, monitor progress against the schedule, resolve queries and generally expedite the progress of the design.
• Liaise with the relevant Engineering with respect to resources and equipment requirements needed for the discipline to complete the work.
• Ensure that the discipline engineering work is performed to the correct standard.
• Ensure work performed within the discipline is executed within the allocated execution -hours.
• Computer literate - e-mail, spreadsheets, and proprietary design software.
• Confident in his engineering ability and experience to handle queries and problems as they arise.
• Able to grasp the important facts in a project and to create a schedule of work for the discipline engineers which gets the work done on schedule and within the execution -hours.
• Aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the group discipline engineers, allocate work, accordingly, provide tuition to address the weaknesses and generally promote greater expertise within the group.
• Able to assess value engineering and constructability issues.
• Any other ad hoc duties as assigned from time to time.
• Maintain standards of HSE and comply with Company's Health, Safety & Environment Management System requirements. Take reasonable care of one's own health and safety and that of others in the workplace. Follow and maintain Company standards of Quality in accordance with Company Quality System requirement.
• Raise issues of concern, development, and improvement to Head of Department.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer science
• Chartered status preferred.
• Significant related project management experience working for engineering/client organizations in the oil and gas industry and/or Low Carbon Energy Transition industry.
• Experience of executing projects in the Middle East.
• Saudi Aramco Projects working experience.

• 25+ Years experience in the installation, testing, maintenance and advanced design of Secure Network and Telecommunications solutions, or a combination of equivalent education and work experience Leadership & execution-hours estimation skills.
• 10+ Years experience managing people and projects
• Strong knowledge and experience in the use of advanced information security solutions, including security software, scripts, configurations, network infrastructure and design, intrusion detection, TCP/IP protocols, and application security features
• Experience with enterprise security solutions spanning multiple business functions and geographic locations.
• Strong knowledge in the development of secure network architectures and standards.
• Advanced knowledge of DNS, DHCP, IP routing, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS, authentication systems, Wireless LAN, proxy technology, and network appliances.
• Team management skills
• PC Skills include use of the various engineering & modelling software
• Training Analysis

• Excellent Communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical attributes.

• Confident in his engineering ability and experience to handle queries and problems as they arise.

• Able to grasp the important facts in a project and to create a schedule of work for the discipline engineers which gets the work done on schedule and within the execution-hours.

• Aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the group discipline engineers, allocate work, accordingly, provide tuition to address the weaknesses and generally promote greater expertise within the group.

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