Provide overall technical leadership and engineering governance across all projects, ensuring design assurance, discipline integration, constructability, value engineering, and effective resolution of technical interfaces.
Establish and enforce engineering management systems, including design review gates, deliverable registers, technical query (TQ) processes, document review cycles, design‑change control, and lessons‑learned frameworks.
Lead risk‑based engineering decision‑making under schedule and commercial pressure, while maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
Oversee engineering inputs across the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless coordination between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover teams.
Ensure strong vendor and contractor document review discipline, including equipment data sheets, drawings, calculations, and interface alignment with project requirements.
Drive constructability and operability reviews, ensuring designs are practical, cost‑effective, and aligned with construction sequencing and commissioning strategies.
Manage technical risk identification and mitigation, proactively addressing design, interface, and execution risks that could impact cost, schedule, or quality.
Provide authoritative oversight on technical deviations, concessions, and change impacts, ensuring decisions are technically sound and commercially informed.
Build, mentor, and lead discipline engineering leads, developing internal capability while effectively leveraging external engineering consultants and partners.
Establish and grow a Lagos‑led engineering assurance function, positioning Dangote Construction with a sustainable, high‑quality in‑house engineering capability.
Key Requirements Education and Work Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant engineering discipline, such as Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Control, Chemical, Process, Industrial or related field. Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
Professional engineering registration required or strongly preferred depending on sign-off authority: COREN registration for Nigeria-based engineering practice or recognized international Chartered Engineer / Professional Engineer credential with eligibility for Nigerian recognition.
Minimum 20 years engineering and design-management experience on major capital projects, EPC, EPCM, PMC, owner-engineering or construction-support organizations.
Minimum 10 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams or engineering managers across civil / structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, process, systems and construction-support interfaces.
Strong knowledge of international codes and standards relevant to project scope, such as API, ASME, ASTM, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, BS / Eurocodes, ISO and discipline-specific design standards.
Proven track record across FEED, detailed engineering, design reviews, vendor design review, technical queries, interface management, change control and construction technical support.