Worley — a global leader in energy, chemicals, and resources engineering headquartered in Australia with operations across more than 40 countries — is seeking an exceptionally experienced Lead Construction Engineer / Brownfield Construction Site Lead for its Abu Dhabi, UAE operations. This is a senior technical leadership role requiring a minimum of 15+ years of relevant Oil & Gas or Petrochemical industry experience, including at least 5 years in a similar lead construction position on major EPC or PMC projects in the GCC, with ADNOC and offshore project experience strongly preferred. Brownfield construction experience in a similar position is a mandatory requirement. You will provide construction support across fabrication and installation, chair constructability reviews, develop and manage workpacks, and serve as the key technical interface with the client across all construction-related activities.
About Worley — Global Energy & Resources Engineering Leader
Company: Worley — Global Engineering, Procurement & Construction | Energy, Chemicals & Resources | HQ: Australia
Specialization: Consulting · Engineering · Procurement · Construction · Operations · Decommissioning — across the full project lifecycle
Technology: AI-enabled delivery · Sustainable solutions · Low-carbon energy infrastructure transition
Abu Dhabi Focus: ADNOC and offshore Oil & Gas project experience — one of the most active and demanding engineering environments in the GCC
Culture: Values-inspired · Diverse & inclusive · Reskilling-forward · Belonging and connection | Moving forward together
Why This Worley Brownfield Construction Lead Role Is a Career-Defining Opportunity in Abu Dhabi
Worley’s Global Prestige: Leading one of Worley’s Abu Dhabi construction programs is a genuinely elite professional credential — Worley’s engineering quality, HSSE standards, and project delivery reputation are recognized and respected by ADNOC and across the global Oil & Gas industry
ADNOC Exposure: ADNOC project experience at Lead Construction Engineer level is one of the most commercially valued and career-advancing credentials available to Oil & Gas construction professionals in the GCC and globally
Brownfield Complexity: Brownfield offshore construction in Abu Dhabi’s active production facilities represents the most technically demanding, safety-critical, and professionally consequential construction engineering environment in the regional Oil & Gas market
Tax-Free Abu Dhabi: Competitive senior construction engineering leadership compensation — zero personal income tax in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Position Overview
This Lead Construction Engineer / Brownfield Construction Site Lead role at Worley in Abu Dhabi is a full-time, senior engineering leadership position responsible for providing comprehensive construction support across all phases of Oil & Gas and Petrochemical projects — from FEED through EPC — ensuring that all project work is carried out in accordance with client fabrication and installation specifications, coordinating with clients to ensure that proposed construction and work methods are clearly understood and fit for purpose, supporting project engineers in understanding the construction process throughout the project lifecycle, chairing constructability reviews, developing and managing workpacks, liaising with engineering disciplines, vendors, and subcontractors, managing offshore surveys, ensuring HSSE compliance, promoting cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives, and serving as the primary technical interface between Worley and the client for all fabrication and construction-related queries. This is a role for a construction engineering leader with genuine brownfield offshore experience — someone who has led construction activities on live production facilities, managed complex multi-discipline workpack development, chaired formal constructability reviews with client design teams, and delivered projects safely and on program in one of the world’s most demanding and safety-critical industrial environments.
Why This Worley Brownfield Construction Lead Role in Abu Dhabi Is the Oil & Gas Engineering Career of 2026: Lead Construction Engineers with 15+ years of Oil & Gas experience — including 5+ years in similar lead positions on major EPC/PMC projects in the GCC, proven ADNOC and offshore project credentials, mandatory brownfield construction experience, and the multi-discipline coordination, constructability review leadership, and workpack development expertise that Worley’s Abu Dhabi operations demand — are among the most sought-after, most generously compensated, and most professionally respected construction engineering professionals in the GCC Oil & Gas market. Worley’s global reputation, combined with Abu Dhabi’s extraordinary energy infrastructure investment pipeline, makes this one of the most career-defining Oil & Gas construction engineering opportunities available in the UAE in 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Construction Leadership — Brownfield Fabrication & Installation
- Provide comprehensive construction support ensuring all project work is carried out in accordance with client fabrication and installation specifications — taking senior technical accountability for construction method compliance across all brownfield modification, fabrication, and installation activities, verifying that the contractor’s construction approach aligns with the approved project specifications, engineering standards, and ADNOC’s specific construction requirements for active offshore and onshore production facility environments
- Coordinate with the client to ensure proposed construction and work methods are clearly understood and fit for purpose — maintaining the proactive, technically credible client technical interface that enables construction method approvals, engineering queries, and construction-related design clarifications to be resolved efficiently without causing delays to fabrication and installation program milestones
- Promote and drive the involvement of Construction in technical design, fabrication, and installation workpack preparation and planning — ensuring that construction engineering perspective is integrated into the design process from the earliest FEED phases, identifying and eliminating design features that would create unnecessary fabrication difficulty, installation risk, or construction cost without proportionate technical benefit
- Develop and maintain responsibility for all construction and completions activities — taking comprehensive ownership of the construction activity portfolio from workpack development through construction execution, punch list closeout, and mechanical completion certification, ensuring that all construction activities are delivered safely, within specification, and on program
Constructability Reviews — Chairing & Technical Leadership
- Chair constructability reviews and act as the primary interface with the client for all fabrication and construction-related queries — leading the formal constructability review process with the authority and technical credibility of a 15+ year construction engineering career, driving the structured evaluation of design packages against fabrication feasibility, installation methodology, construction sequencing, and operability requirements that constructability reviews are designed to deliver
- Review design packages early in the course of the project to eliminate rework and optimize construction — applying brownfield construction experience to identify the specific design elements that would create unnecessary construction complexity, difficult or hazardous installation conditions, or fabrication quality risks, and proposing design modifications that improve constructability without compromising design intent or engineering performance
- Ensure constructability is inherent within the design by being involved at the early stage of work scope and workpack compilation and development — advocating for the early construction engineering involvement that consistently reduces project cost, schedule, and risk compared with the alternative of addressing constructability issues after design packages have been issued for fabrication
Workpack Development, Management & Quality Assurance
- Develop and manage construction workpacks across all brownfield project activities — producing the comprehensive, construction-ready workpack packages that give fabrication contractors and offshore installation teams the complete technical information, method statements, inspection test plans, material lists, specialist tool and equipment requirements, and shutdown coordination information they need to execute construction activities safely, correctly, and efficiently
- Ensure contents of workpacks meet scope requirements and that fabrication details are clear and complete — reviewing workpack packages with the critical eye of an experienced brownfield construction professional who understands exactly what information offshore installation teams need to find construction work executable without ambiguity, improvisation, or safety compromise
- Ensure any shutdown requirements are clearly identified in workpacks with advance notice given to the client — managing the shutdown coordination process with the precision and advance planning that brownfield construction on live production facilities demands, identifying all activities requiring plant shutdown or isolation well ahead of the shutdown window and coordinating the client’s Operations team involvement in advance planning
- Obtain feedback from fabrication contractors and offshore installation teams to continuously improve workpack quality — systematically collecting and incorporating the practical field experience of construction contractors into workpack development practice, building the iterative improvement cycle that progressively raises workpack quality and construction execution efficiency across successive project phases
Multi-Discipline Coordination — Engineering, Vendors & Subcontractors
- Liaise with engineering disciplines to effect solutions to fabrication, construction, and implementation queries — serving as the construction engineering interface to structural, piping, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and civil engineering disciplines, translating field construction problems into clear engineering queries and facilitating the timely engineering solutions that keep construction activities progressing without unnecessary delay
- Liaise with vendors and subcontractors as required — maintaining the professional relationships with specialist equipment suppliers, inspection agencies, lifting contractors, and specialist installation vendors that enable the coordination of specialist services within the project’s construction program and ensure that vendor-supplied information and services support construction workpack requirements
- Conduct offshore surveys with the design team as required — participating in the field surveys that provide the accurate as-built condition information needed to design brownfield modifications correctly, identifying access constraints, space envelope limitations, existing infrastructure conflicts, and tie-in point conditions that must be incorporated into the construction design basis
- Ensure commissioning strategy is prepared and included in workpack deliverables as required — coordinating with the project’s commissioning team to ensure that workpacks include all pre-commissioning and commissioning activities, hookup requirements, and system completion boundaries that the project’s overall mechanical completion and commissioning program requires
HSSE Compliance, Progress Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Be conversant with and fully comply with the HSSE plan — demonstrating the uncompromising personal HSSE commitment that brownfield construction on live ADNOC production facilities demands, setting the behavioral standard for HSSE performance that the construction team and contractor workforces working under Worley’s supervision are expected to follow
- Monitor construction progress against the approved baseline program and construction sequence — maintaining accurate, current visibility of construction progress status, identifying activities at risk of delay, assessing the impact of emerging schedule risks on overall project milestone dates, and coordinating recovery actions that restore program where deviations occur
- Assess effectiveness of working practices and systems with a view to continuously improving — applying the reflective professional judgment that 15+ years of construction engineering experience enables, systematically identifying the specific practices, processes, and systems improvements that would increase construction productivity, reduce rework, or improve HSSE performance across Worley’s Abu Dhabi brownfield construction operations
Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant engineering discipline from an accredited university — Mechanical, Civil, Structural, or Process Engineering preferred — providing the technical foundation for multi-discipline construction engineering leadership in Oil & Gas project environments
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience in the Oil & Gas or Petrochemical industry — with career progression demonstrating increasing technical responsibility and construction engineering leadership capability
- Minimum 5 years (preferred) in the GCC region — with familiarity with GCC-specific construction standards, regulatory requirements, and the specific client expectations of ADNOC and other major GCC National Oil Companies
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar Lead Construction Engineer position on major Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects — managing teams of Specialists, Senior Engineers, and Engineers
- Brownfield construction experience in a similar position — this is mandatory, not preferred
- ADNOC and offshore project experience — preferred, representing the most directly relevant background for this Abu Dhabi operations role
About Worley & Oil & Gas Construction Engineering in Abu Dhabi 2026
Worley delivers some of the world’s most technically complex, commercially significant, and safety-critical engineering, procurement, and construction programs — and Abu Dhabi’s extraordinary Oil & Gas asset base, anchored by ADNOC’s massive onshore and offshore production infrastructure, represents one of the company’s most strategically important and professionally demanding regional markets. Brownfield construction on live ADNOC production facilities — modifying, upgrading, and expanding assets that are simultaneously continuing to produce the oil and gas that supports the UAE’s economy — demands construction engineering leadership of the highest caliber: technically expert in Oil & Gas construction methodology, uncompromising on HSSE standards, deeply experienced with ADNOC’s specific project requirements and approval processes, and professionally skilled at coordinating the complex multi-party technical interfaces that brownfield EPC and PMC projects in active production environments always involve. For Lead Construction Engineers who have built their careers to this level and want to apply their expertise on some of Abu Dhabi’s most significant brownfield Oil & Gas construction programs — under Worley’s globally recognized engineering and delivery brand — this role represents the professional opportunity that Abu Dhabi’s energy infrastructure market is uniquely positioned to offer in 2026.
Your Career Growth Path: Lead Construction Engineer → Principal Construction Engineer → Construction Manager → Senior Construction Manager → Head of Construction → VP Engineering & Construction — a globally respected, technically elite, and commercially consequential Oil & Gas engineering leadership career trajectory built on Worley’s world-class project portfolio and Abu Dhabi’s extraordinary energy infrastructure investment program.
Who Should Apply?
- Lead Construction Engineers (15+ Years O&G): With 5+ years in similar lead positions on major EPC/PMC projects in the GCC, proven ADNOC and offshore project credentials, and mandatory brownfield construction experience who want to advance their careers with Worley in Abu Dhabi
- ADNOC-Experienced Construction Engineers: Who have worked on ADNOC offshore or onshore construction programs in senior roles and want to bring their specific ADNOC knowledge and relationships to Worley’s Abu Dhabi operations
- Senior PMC Construction Engineers — GCC: With PMC construction supervision experience on major Oil & Gas projects who want a comprehensive Lead Construction Engineer role spanning constructability, workpack development, and client interface
- FEED & EPC Construction Leaders — Offshore Focus: With experience across both FEED constructability input and EPC construction execution phases in offshore Oil & Gas environments who want a senior leadership role on Worley’s Abu Dhabi project portfolio
- Brownfield Offshore Construction Specialists: With live-plant brownfield modification, shutdown coordination, and offshore installation management experience who want to apply their brownfield expertise within Worley’s Abu Dhabi operations delivering for ADNOC and other GCC clients
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