Regional Engineering Manager

Regional Engineering Manager

Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.

Join us as Regional Engineering Manager for the Process Automation Business Area where you will be managing a team of designers/engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective and timely engineering solutions to customers. Formulating plan, allocating resources to meet the agreed contractual and financial targets. Ensuring team's compliance with standard processes, procedures, practices and safety requirements. Initiating and drive continuous improvement activities across teams. Responsible for engineering activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Brunei. Reporting to the Local Division Manager and this position is based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Your responsibilities

• Leading engineering teams that are responsible for greenfield and brownfield evolution projects and ensures delivery of a portfolio of projects on time, in full. Providing direction to the teams with a focus on safety, on-time delivery, quality, and margin Improvement.
• Building and maintaining customer relationships, seeking feedback, and providing innovative solutions to meet customer requirements and delivering improvements. Providing engineering support during the bid phase and supports the presentation of proposals to customers. Working with business development to target new opportunities, presenting new technology and innovation at conferences, client events.
• Overseeing contractual work within own area of responsibility. Conducting regular progress reviews, identifies and manages contractual risks.
• Ensuring that engineering teams are adequately resourced, developed and equipped to meet business needs. Overseeing planning and control process in the engineering teams, conducting regular reviews to ensure that the teams are delivering work according to the customer and ABB requirements.
• Creating and implementing plans to ensure that business risks are identified and managed, opportunities maximized. Ensuring that required systems are understood, developed, and correctly implemented.
• Collaborating with the Supply Chain function to ensure that correct suppliers services and equipment are available to support the engineering execution.
• Facilitating best practice sharing within the engineering team.
• Initiating and driving continuous improvement activities. Developing, implementing, and improving relevant processes, policies and procedures to improve effectiveness across the engineering function.
• Ensuring (with HR support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guiding, motivating, coaching, and developing direct and indirect subordinates within HR polices.
• Creating financial plans and budget estimates for units/business areas. Overseeing adherence to these plans and estimates.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or automation and minimum 15 years combined experience in leadership/management and engineering.
• Technical Experience working with Automation and Electrical products and solutions in Oil & Gas, Chemical and Power Generation domain.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Suite applications and related business and engineering software applications (CAD/AUTOCAD, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, etc.).
• General understanding of network engineering and IT/IS is a plus (PC handling, Windows applications, PC configurations, Virus scanners, interfaces, backup).
• Experience with multicultural involvement and engagement. Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and execute effective KPI’s.
• Poses strong people management skills that create highly motivated individuals who work together as a team to execute a well-defined strategy.
• Have a customer focused mentality that fosters strong customer relationships and long-term commitments, both internal and external to ABB.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Paid Parental leave (gender neutral)
• Sick pay

More about us

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to diWe look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website Recruitment Agencies please be aware that this role is being managed by the internal ABB Talent team directly. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners should we require support. Your adherence to our process is appreciated. Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid