Director of Material Handling

Director, Materials Handling
Worley Consulting Group
Vancouver, British Columbia

Worley Consulting. Be part of the solution. 

The dual challenge of supplying energy to a growing population, while addressing the risks of climate change, is one of the greatest challenges the world is facing today. The energy transition isn’t just about alternative fuels, power generation, or use, or storage. It’s all the elements that contribute to the energy ecosystem. We view these challenges as opportunities to deliver a more sustainable world.

We’re developing strategies and business cases for emissions intensive clients to move to low carbon energy options, as efficiently and safely as possible. Our consultants are advising customers on circular and hydrogen economies, water stewardship, electrification, and climate change risk and adaptation. We work on projects around the globe.  The problems are global and so are we.

Challenging complexity. Shaping a sustainable future.

Economic viability. Resource availability. Digital reliability. Carbon neutrality. These are the components of the world’s pressing energy and resource problems. Sound complicated and tough to balance? It is.

Luckily we thrive in complex environments

Join a community of consultants, scientists, strategists, and engineers all dedicated to solving the world’s critical infrastructure, environmental, energy, and resource challenges. By seeing things from a different perspective, we enhance the Worley Group’s ability to serve our clients. We are together delivering a more sustainable world. 

We put sustainability at the heart of everything we do

We work with business to develop the right strategy, log in to a digital future, secure and safeguard social license, enhance local communities, and power the energy transition.

We know we won’t solve today’s problems by using the same thinking that created them. So, from start to finish, we challenge ourselves to find the best way forward. We question every decision, assumption, and way of working to make sure we get it right. The first time.

Rising to the challenge, together

We are thousands of consultants across the globe.  Be part of the future – welcome to our growing team!

Who we are:

The Worley Consulting Group are an integral part of the global Worley organization. Our groups include:

• Ports, Transport & Materials Handling
• Asset Management
• Asset Advisory
• Decommissioning and Restoration
• Energy Transition and Sustainability
• Environment and Society
• Geosciences
• Market Services
• Safety Consulting
• Logistics
• Water

Who you are:

You’re an enthusiastic and experienced leader with a comprehensive engineering background who can lead the Materials Handling group within the Worley Consulting business as we continue our growth into new fields and industries. With a remit that extends from bulk export terminals to micro scale production this high-profile role demands flexibility and enthusiasm for both the subject and the people in the team.

Your entrepreneurial skills will be a feature of your role identifying opportunities to support our clients, develop our people and set projects on the path to success while delivering margin to the business. You’re looking for the opportunity to become an integral part of the leadership team in Worley Consulting.

Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities

Business Development

• Coordinate sales efforts with Worley’s inside/outside Sales teams, participate in business development efforts and update calls.
• Work with discipline leads to identify trends, develop strategies and sales forecasts
• Actively engage with internal and external clients to seek out new opportunities and expand existing ones. You’ll have the opportunity to coordinate work with disciplines throughout Worley and around the globe.
• Prepare or assist in preparing proposals, execution strategies, cost estimating, and project scheduling.
• Maintain staff profiles and resumes, track existing capabilities and strategically address future customer capability requirements.
• Encourage positive working relationships with external parties such as customers, suppliers, and contractors. This will include networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts.

Business Operations

·        Assist in recruiting, coaching and performance management of the team.

·        Attend project coordination meetings and liaise with project team members, clients, sub-consultants, contractors, and regulatory and environmental approval agencies.

·        Monitor project progress through site visits and meetings with clients and contractors.

·        Actively encourage and support a safety-oriented culture.

·        Participate in budgeting activities and manage operations within the approved budget.

·        Control staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures.

·        Oversee engineering software licensing costs, employee utilization, and skills development.

·        Ensure discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

·        Participate in setting the strategic goals for the team and execute strategic initiatives.

Project Delivery

·        Facilitate meeting project requirements with discipline guidelines, programs, and management of project allocated resources. Participate in project execution strategy and planning.

·        Drive innovative solutions, technology advances and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. Work with Project Management teams to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Review and authorize work done by direct reports.

Team Leadership and Development

·        Oversee programs for technical competency and quality and monitor technical competency of teams.

·        Ensure team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.

·        Support global standardization and use of drawing and document templates.

·        Assure the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.

·        Use local/global standards to support technical excellence. Appoint senior team members to conduct checking and perform technical peer reviews and manage execution.

·        Travel as required for meetings, business development and field activities.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role will:

·        Have a degree in mechanical, process or mechatronic engineering from an accredited post-secondary institution or a degree in an affiliated field.

·        Be registered with, or be eligible for registration with, Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia as a professional engineer.

Additional requirements

Preference will be given to candidates who can meet some or all of the following requirements:

• proven experience leading successful teams in Material Handling infrastructure projects
• Project Management experience and a Project Management qualification
• Experience leading a team, including recruitment, mentoring, coaching and performance management.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining strong client relations.
• Ability to communicate effectively and to proactively respond to time-sensitive issues.
• Demonstrated experience in inspection programs.
• Background in materials handling and/or civil/structural work. Experienced understanding of regulations, codes, and industry standard practices.
• Strong relationships with suppliers and contractors. 
• Skilled in estimating project costs and proposal writing. Adept at budgeting and cost control.

·        Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.

·        Works with self-initiated interaction with senior level management and self-initiated technical guidance. Receives administrative direction based on organizational policies and objectives.

·        Effectively communicates and presents complex proposals and reports to senior level management and clients. Ability to persuade and influence others. Participative management style with a cooperative team approach.

·        Organize information from many sources and retain per the prescribed format and policies. Functional awareness of discipline tools. Conversant in the interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modeling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.

·        Drives safe and sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL.

·        Act as a role-model and demonstrate a commitment to safety, personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance. Assumes hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements.

·        Interpersonal:  Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; accessible and approachable in relationships with others; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.

·        Teamwork:  Enjoys working in a high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to effectively work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, capable of prioritizing workloads and helping colleagues achieve team goals.

·        Action Orientation: Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity.

·        Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”

·        Intellectual Capacity: Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Obtain information and ideas from many sources and understand their importance and connectivity.

Please note: No agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy.

“For applicants based in the province of British Columbia, the salary range is CAD $199,026 to $301,183.

Application of the pay band: Variation in salary is determined by factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, relevant years of experience, geographic location, internal pay equity, and prevailing market conditions for the specific role.

Worley Consulting offers an excellent remuneration & benefits package, a friendly, professional, dynamic and flexible work environment along with the opportunity to develop your career prospects within Canada and overseas.

We strive to be an industry leader in health, safety and environmental performance. Our vision is to achieve zero harm to people and assets, and zero environmental incidents. We select people who share our values, beliefs and commitment to this vision and who demonstrate the expected behaviours, competencies and performance associated with their prospective roles within the company.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Worley Consulting is an equal opportunity employer.