Wood is currently recruiting an experienced PMC Material Management Specialist based in Abu Dhabi to support an ADNOC offshore project within its Oil, Gas & New Energies business. This role provides PMC leadership and oversight of materials management activities for offshore construction, ensuring alignment with project specifications, schedules and contractual requirements.
About the Role — Offshore Materials Management Leadership
Core Function: PMC focal point for offshore materials control across a high-profile ADNOC project
Key Scope: Materials handling, storage, preservation, logistics and offshore supply chains
Compliance Focus: HSE standards, company procedures and regulatory requirements
Coordination: Close alignment with procurement, expediting, logistics, construction and project controls teams
About Wood — Global Energy & Materials Leader
Global Scale: 33,000 people in around 50 countries
Focus Areas: Consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors
Group Structure: Forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara, a global engineering partnership
Mission: Delivering safe, predictable outcomes and enabling a lower carbon future
Position Overview
This PMC Material Management Specialist role involves providing PMC leadership and oversight of offshore materials management activities, acting as the PMC focal point for materials control, ensuring compliance with HSE standards, overseeing EPC contractors’ materials management plans and logistics, monitoring inventory levels and critical items, coordinating with procurement and construction teams, and ensuring proper receipt, inspection, tagging, storage and traceability of offshore materials and equipment.
Why This Role Matters: As PMC Material Management Specialist at Wood, you ensure critical offshore materials reach ADNOC’s high-profile projects on time and in full compliance with HSE and quality standards, oversee EPC contractor logistics and warehousing strategies at scale, coordinate across procurement, construction and marine logistics teams to prevent costly delays, apply deep offshore Oil & Gas expertise to complex materials and supply chain challenges, and contribute to transformative energy projects shaping the region’s future.
Key Responsibilities
PMC Leadership & Materials Control
- Provide PMC leadership and oversight of materials management activities for offshore construction
- Act as the PMC focal point for offshore materials control, ensuring timely availability of materials and equipment
- Ensure materials handling, storage, preservation and movements comply with HSE standards and regulatory requirements
Contractor & Logistics Oversight
- Oversee EPC contractors’ materials management plans, logistics strategies, warehousing arrangements and offshore supply chains
- Review and endorse contractor deliverables including material control procedures, logistics plans and load-out schedules
- Ensure effective interface management between onshore warehouses, yards, marine logistics and offshore installations
Inventory Monitoring & Reporting
- Monitor and control offshore material status, inventory levels, shortages, surpluses and critical items
- Track and report material movements, offshore inventory, consumption and forecasts
- Ensure accurate documentation, reporting and close-out of materials records, including surplus management and final handover
Quality, Compliance & Reviews
- Ensure proper receipt, inspection, tagging, storage, preservation and traceability of offshore materials
- Monitor compliance with material certification, documentation and quality requirements, including MRBs and NCRs
- Participate in constructability reviews, offshore readiness reviews, SIMOPS reviews and risk assessments
Coordination & Continuous Improvement
- Coordinate with procurement, expediting, logistics, construction and project controls teams
- Act as offshore liaison with EPC contractors, logistics providers, vessel operators and client representatives
- Promote continuous improvement, best practices and lessons learned in offshore materials management
- Provide guidance and support to offshore materials coordinators and contractor personnel
🎓 Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Civil Engineering or equivalent from an accredited university
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in the Offshore/Onshore Oil & Gas industry, including 5 years (preferred) in the GCC region
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar position on mega Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects, managing teams of Specialists, Senior Engineers and Engineers
- Offshore experience is a must; ADNOC experience is desired
- PMC experience is required
Essential Skills
- Fully coherent in all international codes and standards
- Excellent command of both spoken and written English
- Enthusiastic, conscientious and keen to learn, with a flexible, can-do attitude
- Working hands-on experience with SPEL
- Working knowledge and experience of electrical discipline codes, specifications and practices relevant to offshore/onshore oil and gas
- Previous experience working in the Middle East is an advantage
About Wood
Join Wood, 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.
Career Excellence: Lead offshore materials management for a high-profile ADNOC project with a global energy leader.
Who Should Apply?
- Senior Materials Management Professionals: With 15+ years in Offshore/Onshore Oil & Gas
- PMC-Experienced Engineers: With mega-project experience managing specialist teams
- Offshore Logistics Specialists: Familiar with EPC contractor oversight and supply chain management
- ADNOC/GCC Region Professionals: With prior Middle East offshore project experience
- Mechanical/Civil Engineering Graduates: With deep materials control and quality compliance expertise
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