Lead Mechanical Engineer

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Our Purpose and Beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time – to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best – for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

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Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognize that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging. Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the Role:

Kent is recruiting for Lead Mechanical Engineer. Will be responsible for ensuring that discipline-specific engineering work is executed in accordance with the required standards, project specifications, and within the allocated budgeted manhours.

Responsibilities will include:

• 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 Project Engineers/Project Managers 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.
• 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 and Operations Managers, on the performance of the various engineers/designers.
• Extensive experience of assessing and concluding multi-discipline site technical queries (including procurement specifications if solution requires)
• Capability to coordinate multidiscipline back-office engineering team to provide rapid technical support to site teams.
• 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 an international or Client Standard, Procedure or recognized Code of Practice. Also, ensure that the most commonly 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 and Operations Managers 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 man-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 man-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 act as a Lead Engineer on a small/medium/large size project.
• 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.
• Candidate is required to have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering
  • 15+ Years as an engineer in design engineering & construction environment.
  • Leadership & Manhours estimation skills.
  • PC Skills include use of the various engineering & modelling software.
  • QA/QC Company Requirements.
  • Training Analysis.
  • Team management skills.

We foster an environment where you are challenged professionally and empowered to take the lead on your career development with the support and guidance of our leaders. We’re committed to making sure that every single person uses their time with us to gain valuable experience and skills for their future, so why not pursue your career with us today!

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