•    Provide leadership to managers and professional staff within a department.
•    Accountable for the performance and results of multiple disciplines within a department.
•    Apply managerial expertise to achieve financial and operational objectives.
•    Resolve a variety of complex problems that have implications within the area of responsibility.
•    Develop operational plans to achieve business objectives.
•    Influence customer and/or organizational leadership to achieve operational objectives.
•    Manage the performance of Discipline employees through goal setting, ongoing assessment, and coaching.
•    Contribute to functional strategy development.
•    Propose scope splits between Engineering offices and/or subcontractors (as applicable) at the bid stage and the award.
•    Negotiate with other engineering disciplines, Fabrication, Marine, and Project Management Teams to ensure the best schedules and execution plans within agreed budgets.
•    Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, and engineering meetings, as required.
•    Interface with peers and Global Engineering.
•    Foster teamwork of Regional or Functional Managers.
•    Provide and direct bid assistance.
•    Ensure availability and allocate discipline manpower resources as required to provide agreed deliverables and meet agreed schedules and budgets.
•    Maintain historical norms to establish budgets and forecasts.
•    Prepare/review the department's budgets and forecasts.
•    Manage financial and operational objectives.
•    Ensure departmental plans are aligned with business, financial, and operational objectives.
•    Meet group DOE forecasts, within schedule and budget.
•    Review/approve departmental key documents and drawings such as:
o    Progress and productivity report.
o    Workhours/timesheet bookings.
o    Requisitions for software, computers, and other departmental expenses.
o    Expense reports.
o    Estimates for proposals, including cost, schedule, and manhour estimates and execution plans.
o    Forecasting reports.
o    Project-specific procedures and design reports.
•    Conduct staff feedback meetings.
•    Identify and resolve technical, operational, and organizational problems.
•    Keep the Director, Area Manager, and Project Management Teams apprised of high-level activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related.
•    Plan and recommend department manpower, training/ development and assist in recruiting resources.
•    Coordinate the training and development of Discipline personnel.
•    Evaluate performance and recommend changes in the classification and compensation of department personnel.
•    Travel on a regular basis to the other office locations within Offshore Middle East and if required, also to the Chennai engineering center.

Reports to:
Functional: Senior Director Engineering
Liaise with: Engineering Directors in regional office locations, Managers and Supervisors of other Engineering / Design Disciplines, Project Managers, Project Engineers, and Project Management Teams; Offshore/Onshore Managers, Planning Managers, Proposals Department, Procurement Department, Safety Department, HR Department, QC and Certification Group, External McDermott Offices, Client Representatives, Vendor & Subcontractor Representatives
Supervises: All Discipline Managers, Engineers, Designers, and support personnel within the department