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Worley is seeking a Specialist Engineer, Construction Electrical, for a full-time onsite role in Abu Dhabi. The position centers on leading construction and completion activities, driving constructability reviews, developing and maintaining workpacks, and ensuring early involvement of design with procurement and installation teams, all while upholding HSSE standards and coordinating with client contractors and vendors. It requires strong safety leadership, excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines, and the capacity to manage multi-discipline interfaces to deliver within scope and budget. To apply, tailor your CV to showcase electrical construction, offshore survey experience, and successful workpack delivery; quantify results, highlight collaboration, and align with Worley’s commitment to safety, diversity, and the energy transition.
Specialist Engineer – Construction- Electrical - ABU028C
Company: Worley
Primary Location
: ARE-Abu Dhabi
Job
: Construction
Schedule
: Full-time
Employment Type: Employee
Management Level: Manager
Job Posting
: Jun 25, 2026
Unposting Date
: Aug 24, 2026
Reporting Manager Title: Senior Project Control Specialist
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Building on our past. Ready for the future
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.
Responsibilities
- To be conversant with and fully comply with the HSSE plan.
- Promote and drive the involvement of Construction in areas of technical design, fabrication and installation workpack preparation and planning.
- Develop and maintain a familiarity and appreciation of capability and ongoing work load with client Construction support providers / contractors.
- Develop and maintain responsibility for all construction and completions activities .
- Effectively work within a multi-discipline collaborative environment to deliver results within expectations.
- Promote cost reduction and productivity enhancing initiatives.
- Assess effectiveness of working practices and systems with a view of continuously improving.
- Chair and participate in constructability reviews.
- Build and maintain a professional, constructive relationship with client’s procurement and construction groups.
- Ensure that constructability is inherent within the design by being involved at the early stage of work scope and workpack compilation / development.
- Involved in workpack preparation including testing requirements, specialist tools and equipment, also identify specialists / vendors to perform identified tasks.
- Ensure contents of workpacks meet with scope requirements.
- Ensure logic of work is updated on the plan and supporting systems.
- Conduct offshore surveys with design team as required.
- Address fabrication and installation queries and revert with solutions in a timely manner.
- Liaise with project engineers to ensure priorities are maintained.
- Liaise with engineering disciplines to effect solutions to fabrication, construction and implementation queries.
- Liaise with vendors and sub-contractors, as required.
- Ensure any (all) shutdown requirements are clearly identified in workpack and advance notice given to client.
- Ensure fabrication details are clear and complete.
- Obtain feedback from fabrication contractor and offshore installation team to continuously improve workpacks.
- Ensure timely IFC construction comments received from client.
- Responsible for transport and installation plans.
- Ensure (as required) commissioning strategy is prepared and included in workpack deliverables.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated safety leadership and performance.
- Good interpersonal, team engagement and ability to influence skills
- Ability to develop effective working relationships with others.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritize work to achieve them.
Moving forward together
We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.