Principal Electrical Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

• Self & team consistently meets targets, due dates and quality standards (production, service, advice, etc.)
• Achieve Quality targets by consistently reducing all non-value-adding work
• Cost target achievement by consistently improving team productivity
• All Plans and team objectives consistently executed and achieved in a safe working environment
• Productivity target achievement
• Achievement of Saudization targets
• Play a lead role for a portfolio of projects
• Solve problems involving multiple stakeholders (e.g. on related Affiliate level and impact value chains)
• Identify, prioritise, and select stakeholder needs in order to set specific technical requirements (involves pre-empting known and unknown)
• Translate stakeholders needs/wants into specific technical deliverables
• Improve technology application and integration
• Independent idea generation within multi-disciplines/multi-affiliate (strategic impact)
• Develop work processes and implement actions to improve the multi discipline's and/or industry performance
• Define, interpret, defend and approve quality standards, specifications and technical requirements
• Ensure quality of a function's technical delivery by the review and sign off of multi-disciplinary technical work
• Take decisions which optimise total cost of ownership
• Balance cost, schedule, quality as per risk level
• Take accountability for risk decisions through appropriate evaluation and risk mitigation practices
• Develop and review policies, procedures and methods and develop where necessary; apply policies with discretion
• Ensure that the quality of decision making with regards to projects are high
• Solve problems on affiliate level and impact related affiliate by enhancing meaningful steps (define, defend, enhance)
• Verify quality of group delivery; manage junior staff
• Continuously research the field of expertise to develop the area with the company; improve technology application and integration
• Conduct Research & Development that leads to new solutions being implemented in the Affiliate
• Question existing work practices
  

Leadership

• Establish High performance in the team through Goal clarity and alignment of all team members (performance direction)
• Drive Team performance and performance management through regular performance reviews and giving recognition where it was due; Always deal with performance issues in a proactive manner
• Increase the Team skill level, succession and career progressions though by enabling the achievement of development objectives for one self and all team members
• Change management and communication well communicated and effectively executed across the business
• Quality diversity decisions on opportunity utilization (Employee Movements)
• Creates a high performance culture and values driven environment (team motivation and wellness) by Improving engagement and enablement levels that results in high performance
• Governance and legal compliance (audits and inspection)
• work alignment and collaboration across boundaries (value chain)
• Resources availability and optimization by ensuring that Cost effective resources are available for results delivery on a daily basis
• Diverse succession pipeline planning and retention
• Influence senior Affiliate management through technical leadership
• Ensuring continuous personal and professional growth and development
• Improve group work processes and play leading role in implementation of new ideas/opportunities
• Facilitating transformation and change processes
• Facilitating continuous improvement
• Communicate best practices, technical reports and positions statements with the appropriate stakeholders
• Lead discussions with contractors and licensors
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of appropriate business solutions
• Idea generation through facilitating an interdisciplinary team
• Provide input on medium and long term technical strategies
• Influence technical integration between cross boundary business teams
• Provide technical coaching, mentoring and training to team members
• Lead team across functions, disciplines and business environments (management track)
• Solve more strategic technical problems on Affiliate level and impact value chain (Functional tech)
• Responsible allocation of and motivation to secure resources (management)
• Play a technical leadership role in a portfolio of projects
• Lead team and remove obstacles to achieve and improve results (management)
• Interpret and execute strategy
• Develop technically orientated and appropriate business solutions
• Participate in the planning of research programmes

Desired candidate profile

• Bachelors of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 4 years as Lead Engineer
• Masters of Engineering (Specific discipline) + 2 years as Lead Engineer
  

Experience

• 15 years experience as Engineer (subject to qualification)
• International experience preferred
  

Skills

• Expert in analysis and modelling of engineering components, systems, processes
• Effective leadership and management skills
• Ability to deal with unknown, combine unrelated data and information to create new insight
• Expert discipline knowledge
• Strategic thinking
• Design thinking
• Expert knowledge of technical trends, interpretation and application of industry knowledge
• Effective leadership and management skills
• Creating and innovating
• Discernment
• Expert competence performing risk Management/Analysis
• Leading portfolios of projects
• Resilience
• Intercultural intelligence
• Expert in conceptualising engineering components, systems
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Expert analytical and problem solving skills
• Results driven (meeting customer expectations)
• Research and development
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Expert persuading and influencing skills
• Ability to think and interact globally
• Change agent
• epxert , presentation and negotiation skills