Regional Engineering Manager - Energy Industries

Regional Engineering Manager - Energy Industries

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to provide strategic direction, leadership, management, and coordination of the Engineering function within a local division / product group. You will be managing a team of designers/engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective and timely engineering solutions to customers. Each day, you will initiate, coordinate, drive, and oversee team development and continual improvement of processes and procedures to strengthen the engineering and design capability. You will also showcase your expertise by driving the team’s performance to ensure assigned engineering operations are executed successfully.

The work model for the role is: ,

This role is contributing to the Process Automation Energy Industries covering engineering activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Brunei.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Aligning the unit’s strategy with global strategy and ensuring operational development including profit and loss.
• Providing input to the local division / product group strategy and acting as a key player in its implementation and in strengthening a business model relevant to the scope of engineering.
• Leading the local engineering teams that are responsible for solutions, products, or sector areas and ensuring end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of projects on time.
• Building and maintaining customer relationships, seeking feedback, and providing innovative solutions to meet customer requirements and deliver improvements.
• Leading engineering teams that are responsible for greenfield and brownfield evolution projects and ensures delivery of a portfolio of projects on time, in full. Providing direction to the teams with a focus on safety, on-time delivery, quality, and margin Improvement.
• Overseeing contractual work within own area of responsibility. Conducting regular progress reviews, identifies and manages contractual risks.
• Ensuring that engineering teams are adequately resourced, developed and equipped to meet business needs. Facilitating best practice sharing within the engineering team.
• Creating and implementing plans to ensure that business risks are identified and managed, opportunities maximized.
  
  

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or automation and minimum 15 years combined experience in leadership/management and engineering.
• Technical Experience working with Automation and Electrical products and solutions in Oil & Gas, Chemical and Power Generation domain.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Suite applications and related business and engineering software applications (CAD/AUTOCAD, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, etc.).
• General understanding of network engineering and IT/IS is a plus (PC handling, Windows applications, PC configurations, Virus scanners, interfaces, backup).
• Experience with multicultural involvement and engagement. Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and execute effective KPI’s.
• Poses strong people management skills that create highly motivated individuals who work together as a team to execute a well-defined strategy. Excellent English communication skills.
• Have a customer focused mentality that fosters strong customer relationships and long-term commitments, both internal and external to ABB.
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Get exposed to cutting-edge technology in Process Automation and have a visible impact on the future
• Bring your knowledge and expertise, make the difference in technology
• Flexibility: we have hybrid work options, make the best out of them!
  
  

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Paid Parental leave (gender neutral)
• Sick pay
  
  

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons,

chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

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