Department Manager Structural Engineering

Worley•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Department Manager provides functional, technical, and people leadership for the Civil / Structural / Architectural Department. The role is responsible for maintaining a capable, engaged, and appropriately resourced organization that delivers safe, high-quality, commercially effective engineering and design services to Worley and its customers. Accountability includes people leadership, technical capability, workforce planning, project support, execution excellence, and continuous improvement across the department. Worley is a global energy, chemicals, and resources company headquartered in Australia. It partners with customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets, providing consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction services across the project lifecycle, as well as operations and decommissioning support. The company uses its experience and AI-enabled delivery to help customers navigate complexity and transition toward more sustainable solutions.

Requirements

At least 15 years of relevant Civil, Structural, Architectural, or multidisciplinary engineering experience, including significant experience on complex engineering projects.
At least 5 years of engineering management, discipline leadership, department management, or comparable people-leadership experience.
Demonstrated experience leading engineers, designers, and technical professionals.
Strong understanding of Civil, Structural, and Architectural engineering and design practices and multidisciplinary project execution.
Working knowledge of applicable engineering codes, standards, statutory and regulatory requirements, quality processes, and technical assurance practices.
Demonstrated experience in workforce planning, resource forecasting, project staffing, and personnel development.
Experience supporting engineering estimates, schedules, execution plans, and project delivery.
Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
Ability to work effectively with customers, project teams, functional leaders, and geographically distributed teams.
Commercial awareness and understanding of the relationship between engineering performance, project performance, and customer outcomes.
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.

Nice To Haves

Experience in energy, chemicals, refining, petrochemical, resources, infrastructure, power, or related industries.
EPC experience and experience across multiple project phases, including front-end engineering, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
Experience leading multi-office, workshare, or globally distributed teams.
Experience supporting proposals, estimating, customer engagement, and business development.
Experience managing departmental utilization, resource forecasts, budgets, and performance objectives.
Experience implementing standardized work processes, digital engineering, automation, data-centric delivery, or AI-enabled engineering tools.
Experience with professional engineering governance, Responsible Charge, and engineering sealing requirements.
Professional Engineer (PE) license or Registered Architect (RA) credential in an applicable U.S. jurisdiction.
Master's degree in engineering, architecture, engineering management, business administration, or a related field.
Formal training or certification in leadership, people management, project management, or commercial management.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management qualification.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage Civil, Structural, and Architectural engineers, designers, technical specialists, and discipline leads.
Recruit, retain, develop, and engage personnel to meet current and forecast business needs.
Set clear performance expectations and hold regular performance, career-development, and Individual Development Plan discussions.
Maintain succession and development plans for key technical and leadership positions.
Maintain department capability through competency assessment, training, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and appropriate work assignments.
Ensure projects are appropriately staffed with personnel who have the required competency and experience.
Work with Project Managers, Project Engineering Managers, Lead Engineers, and other Department Managers to support effective project planning and execution.
Monitor resource, technical, quality, schedule, and execution risks and support timely corrective action.
Ensure work complies with Worley, customer, statutory, regulatory, professional engineering, and quality requirements.
Promote consistent application of engineering standards, specifications, work processes, checking practices, and lessons learned.
Promote safety in design, technical assurance, constructability, sustainability, and appropriate professional engineering oversight.
Support preparation of engineering estimates, schedules, staffing plans, execution plans, proposals, and technical qualifications.
Maintain visibility of workload, utilization, staffing requirements, and forecast resource demand, and take appropriate action to address gaps.
Collaborate across locations and regions to balance workload, access specialist capability, and effectively use Worley's broader engineering resources.
Promote standardization, digital engineering, automation, data-centric delivery, and appropriate use of AI-enabled tools to improve quality, productivity, and predictability.
Support customer engagement, business development, proposals, and presentations where Civil, Structural, or Architectural leadership is required.
Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable work environment focused on safety, quality, employee development, continuous improvement, and customer outcomes.