Department Manager - Engineering Oslo

With more than a hundred years of experience, Aibel is a leading supplier within the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. We offer our customers optimal and innovative solutions within engineering, construction, modifications and maintenance throughout the project's life cycle. Exciting, right?

In Aibel you can see your ideas become reality, and hard work materialize at the yard as a finished product. As an EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) supplier you can follow the project through all phases whether that is a process platform, a wind park transformer, a hydrogen plant, or something we have yet to envision.

New times and new challenges require bright heads and bright ideas.

We are now looking to strengthen our base organisation with more department managers in our business unit 'Field Development & Offshore Wind' (FD&OW). Our Department Managers play an important role in building and securing our competence and capacity, through recruitment, employee development and mobilizing employees and hired-ins to our projects.

Department Managers are an integral part of the base organisation engineering management team. You will be given necessary training and support to guide you in your new role. And at the same time we are eager to learn from you and the experience you bring. We are looking for people engaged in organizational development, and with an interest in leading and developing the individuals in the organization. The department manager positions will have a workload between 50-100% depending on the position, and it will be possible to combine with project work, however, the department manager role will be be your main activity.

Scope of work:

• Identify talents and develope empolyees
• Mobilise resources to project roles to secure project delivery
• Develop and attract competence for the futurex
• Personnel management, i.e. employee follow up, performance and talent management
• Budget and result responsibility for own department
• Ensure information flow within department
• Recruitment and hire-in
• Contribute to a positive social and working environment

Qualifications and work experience:

We are looking for people with an interest in leading and developing the individuals within our technical environment. We expect you have a minimum of 5 years technical experience from FEEDs/EPC projects as well as relevant leadership experience.

Furthermore, we believe you:

• Have a keen interest in leadership and a proven track record from earlier leadership experience. Ideally you have knowledge and experience from both technical and personnel management
• Hold a relevant technical degree (BSc or MSc)
• Focus on building strong relations and work targeted to create a positive working environment
• Are eager to secure the growth and development of both individuals and organisation
• Work proactively to acquire knowledge related to procedures and guidelines relevant for the scope under your responsibility
• Are an effective communicator. You can communicate well in English and Norwegian, both orally and in writing
• Have a strategic mindset and work systematically and structured to reach defined targets
• Are solutions oriented, open to change and passionate about the deliverables and development of Aibel

Become our colleague:

Aibel offers many career opportunities. With us, you can work across disciplines, build competence and develop your own potential. This contributes to a vibrant and engaging work environment. We also offer flexible working hours, and our welfare clubs have a wide range of activities and training opportunities for all our employees.

Our value program "We Care" – encourages us to be responsible, visionary, open and flexible. The values reflect the attitudes we have at work and set the standard for how to achieve our goals. We value inclusion, equality and diversity, and encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, functional ability and ethnicity.

Our overall strategy is to gradually develop our business from oil and gas towards renewable solutions. Because we view our social responsibility as a fundamental prerequisite, sustainable development is a natural part of our guidelines, work procedures and decision-making processes.

Can you identify with our values, and are you inspired by our vision? Then we would like to hear from you!

Application deadline and contact information:

For questions regarding the position, please contact: Vice President Engineering, Christian Engelhardtsen, christian.engelhardtsen@aibel.com