Job Description
Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood is recruiting for a
Commissioning Director (Senior Commissioning Manager) to join our team for an immediate start, leading commissioning, start-up, and operational readiness activities on a major EPCM refinery project with a valued client partner in
Si Racha, Chonburi, Thailand.
This expatriate role is available on an in country residential basis, offered as an initial 12-month contract with opportunity to extend your assignment for the life of the project.
Designing the future. Transforming the World.
Wood has a deep history pioneering technical expertise globally for more than 160 years, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Thailand, and is now embarking on an exciting new chapter. Building on 40 years of engineering excellence in Thailand, Wood invites you to join our dedicated team to shape the future of the energy industry in Asia Pacific and beyond.
Join us in the heart of Chonburi, within a vibrant and fast-growing hub on Thailand's Eastern Seaboard where you will enjoy being close to major industrial and energy centres with the lifestyle advantages of a coastal location. Perfectly positioned within reach of Bangkok and minutes from the coastline of Pattaya, our office is the ideal blend of career opportunity and coastal lifestyle.
At Wood Thailand you will thrive in a collegiate team culture by partnering with like-minded, agile industry peers to inspire ingenuity and create new possibilities.
What We Can Offer
- Long term assignment on one of the world's most complex and strategically important projects delivered in partnership with an industry leader in energy
- Global connections through an inclusive and diverse international community of recognised industry experts and innovators
- Flexible working arrangements balancing client, team, and individual needs
- Commitment to wellbeing, including annual health insurance contribution and 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all aspects of our business
- Excellent rates, with regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Project Director and functionally aligned with the Senior Manager – Construction & Commissioning APAC, your immediate focus will be leading the commissioning, start-up, operational readiness, and facility handover activities for a major EPCM refinery project.
As the senior commissioning leader on the project, you will bring to life Woods three pillar strategy of Inspired Culture, Delivery Excellence and Profitable Growth. Leading by example, you will consistently display and enforce Wood values and behaviours, and commitment to the highest standards of safe and ethical behaviour, to ensure safe, reliable operations and client satisfaction.
You will thrive on the challenge of providing strategic direction while balancing technical, team, client, and project leadership in this pivotal role with your focus on relationships and delivery, enabling you to anticipate project needs beyond the immediate scope. You will drive technical excellence and assurance on the commissioning portion working in in concert with other disciplines, while your executive-level engagement with key client stakeholders will enable robust technical decisions to ultimately add value to our client partner and project.
In Addition, You Will
- Develop and lead the overall commissioning, start-up, and operational readiness strategy, ensuring safe delivery through to performance testing and facility handover
- Provide leadership across all commissioning disciplines, including process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, automation, and operations readiness teams
- Establish and govern commissioning execution plans, resource strategies, performance metrics, and risk management processes
- Provide executive oversight of commissioning schedules, budgets, workforce planning, and delivery performance
- Serve as Wood's senior commissioning representative with client leadership, operations teams, contractors, licensors, and key stakeholders
- Ensure all commissioning activities are executed in compliance with project requirements and applicable health, safety, environmental and regulatory standards
- Lead operational readiness, systemisation, completions, turnover and handover activities to ensure a seamless transition to operations
- Drive resolution of complex technical, operational, and commercial challenges while promoting continuous improvement, lessons learned and high-performing teams
Qualifications
What makes you remarkable
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. Even if you do not meet every requirement listed below but believe you have the experience, skills and capability to succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply.
It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.
Expected
You must be eligible to obtain legal working rights in Thailand, able to pass a pre-employment medical, including a drug & alcohol screen.
Suitably qualified with a degree in a Chemical, Mechanical (or relevant engineering discipline) from a recognised institution, you will have 20+ years industry experience ideally with
proven experience in a similar Commissioning Director / Senior Commissioning Manager role on a major EPCM project within the Refinery, Petrochemical or Oil & Gas Processing sector, as part of a tier one contractor, operator or services company.
In Addition
- Ability to pass a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol screen
- Proven track record leading large-scale commissioning, start-up, operational readiness and facility handover programs for complex brownfield and greenfield projects
- Extensive technical expertise across refining and petrochemical processes with demonstrated success delivering within highly complex, multi-discipline project environments
- Proven leadership capability with experience managing large, multicultural, and geographically diverse commissioning organisations
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with executive client stakeholders, operations leadership, licensors, contractors, and joint venture partners
- Excellent commercial awareness with experience managing project risks, schedules, resource planning, budgets, and contractual deliverables
- Highly developed problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to manage competing priorities within fast-paced project environments
- Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal
- Extensive digital literacy and familiarity with completion management systems, commissioning databases, and project controls tools
Desirable
What will set you apart will be your proven experience on major refinery projects leading revamps, expansions, and large-scale integration projects, with expertise on hydrocracker, hydrotreater, residue upgrading or complex conversion refinery units.
It takes a diverse and inclusive community of inquisitive minds to unlock tomorrow's solutions to the world's most critical challenges.
If you are a Commissioning Director / Senior Commissioning Manager and looking for a career opportunity without peer on a major EPCM refinery in Thailand - apply today!
Shortlisting will commence immediately.
About Us
Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com
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.
