Wood Hiring for Regional Staffing Manager at Houston, Texas Full Time

Wood is currently seeking applicants for an exciting, hands-on leadership opportunity within Consulting Americas as a Regional Staffing Manager to help shape the future of our business. The Regional Staffing Manager will play a key role in supporting the growth of the Consulting business across the Americas region, building relationships within the operational and functional leadership teams to improve technical resource forecasting, deployment and utilization, technical competency assessment, and help improve career opportunities for our employees.

This role provides a great opportunity to get a wider understanding of Wood’s business across all end markets and capabilities, to stretch your leadership and networking skills, and to have a hand in developing a new key capability to support our growth plans.

Please note – this position can be based at any of our offices within the Americas and is open to internal applications only.

Job Objectives

The role of the Regional Staffing Manager is to enable the optimisation of project staffing requirements across the Consulting Business Unit within their region in order to support successful delivery of projects.

This role is part of the Consulting staffing function and requires the leader to support and manage at a regional level a fit for purpose staffing system underpinned by effective processes and tools which will allow small, medium, and large-scale projects with multi-disciplined teams to be effectively resourced throughout their life cycles.

The staffing sub function is fundamental to the successful delivery of the new Consulting Operating Model and impacts not only on the direct project staffing requirements (and hence project delivery success) but also impacts effective utilization (and hence profitability), employee engagement and retention, and effectiveness of leaders (reducing the staffing challenge for them).

The role will report into the Global Staffing Director and will have a regional, fit for purpose sized staffing team to execute the day-to-day regional staffing activities including coordinating between project management teams, and technical delivery teams. The leader will be required to provide clear insights to Consulting senior leaders within their region in terms of staffing progress and performance, and to manage associated risks.

Key Accountability & Responsibilities:

The Regional Staffing Manager is required to oversee staffing for small scale as well as large scale and highly complex projects in both familiar and unfamiliar sectors. They are responsible for all aspects of project staffing within the region.

Their responsibilities include the development of an effective staffing system (working with the Global Staffing Director, supporting resource pool development, coordinating resource availability including competency across BGs, managing effective use of the GEC in Chennai, building a strong relationship across the BGs and being able to provide and obtain technical and SME support, and leading a standardised growth focused approach to workforce planning to meet budget expectations.

The Regional Staffing Manager may have a team of up to 5 direct reports once the model is fully implemented.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead Project Staffing across the designated Region across the 3 Consulting Business Groups with appropriate and effective delivery.
• Hands-on involvement in staffing and resourcing tasks in order to support effective and efficient support to the Consulting business within the region.
• Drive standardization and consistency across regional staffing activities which support a growth focused approach to workforce planning.
• Embed effective estimating into the staffing system working with the Commercial and G&D teams.
• Report and work collaboratively with Regional P&L owners in a matrix organization and support their regional goals.
• Work with the Technical and Project Management Leaders in region to ensure that our delivery teams have effective and suitable competency and development activities which position them to support project needs.
• Follow regional delivery plans to ensure focused delivery on staffing which can be shared with stakeholders to get their alignment and support.
• Provide regular staffing function performance reporting to BG Leadership teams to support them in managing their business at Business Group and Business Unit Level
• Support and focus on critical project delivery areas: estimating, forecasting, risk management, management of change, resourcing, project close out (movement of staff to new project whilst maintaining a core team to complete the existing requirements), and client expectations.
• Actively promote the company’s HSSEA culture and core values ensuring these continue to be embedded into the way that business is done.
• Promote Project Delivery culture of delivery, value added, collaboration, and excellence, through leadership by example, Communities of Practice, and teamwork.
• Manage stakeholders including resolution of disputes, escalated issues, expectations on objectives, scopes, and deliverables, and representing the company at sponsorship meetings.
• Ensure that the systems and structures are in place to support Global Project Staffing and to limit project risk, including reduce and/or remove “Givebacks” based upon “Key” personnel availability.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

The key interfaces required to fulfil the job objective are:

Internal:

• Local project, business and technical leaders
• Regional P&L owners
• P&O – L&D and Resourcing
• Growth & Development
• Project Management Office
• Commercial Team
• Finance team
• HSE
• Quality Assurance
• Projects and Operations BU Leaders and staffing managers

External:

• Clients and prospective clients
• LRQA

LEVEL OF INFLUENCE & DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY

The Regional Staffing Manager has the autonomy to complete their duties as required and defined by the Global Staffing Director. Where issues or risks are identified outside of the permitted tolerances, they will be expected to escalate to the Global Staffing Director. Additionally, they must operate within the delegation of authority parameters as defined in the Wood procedures, where a decision exceeds this, the appropriate escalation is required. The role is aligned with the ELT-3 leadership line and it’s respective decision-making authority

Skills / Qualifications

Business knowledge and qualifications, essential skills and experience required to perform the role are listed below:

• Engineering or Business qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience in project management or project administration
• Proven experience in project resourcing and/or workforce planning
• Excellent interpersonal and engagement skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Project planning, monitoring, and reporting
• Advanced MS Office skills

Business knowledge and qualifications, advantageous to perform the role are listed below:

• Project Management delivery across small, medium, and large projects
• Project Controls and/or resource management experience

Personal attributes:

A summary of the personal characteristics required to perform the job effectively are:

• Comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments
• Strong ability to influence
• Strong at networking
• Exceptional time management skills
• Able to work well under pressure
• Strong ability to think logically
• Collaborative Approach
• Performance Driven
• Professional – Passion for Quality
• Analytical and Creative
• High attention to Detail
• Effective Communication Skills
• Positive and Proactive “Can Do” attitude
• Flexible and Adaptable
• Commercially Minded
• High commitment to safety

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.