Engineering Director (Dangote Construction & Heavy Industries)

Job Overview

The Engineering Director will provide engineering assurance and technical leadership across EPC, PMC and construction delivery. The role serves as a technical authority for engineering standards, multidisciplinary integration and disciplined design management, supporting safe, fit-for-purpose and high-quality project execution across all phases.

Job Details

Employer: Dangote Industries Limited
Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline; professional engineering registration is required or strongly preferred depending on sign-off authority.
Preferred Qualification: Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
Experience: Minimum 20 years of engineering and design-management experience on major capital projects, EPC, EPCM, PMC, owner-engineering or construction-support assignments, including a minimum of 10 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams or engineering managers.
Job Field: Engineering & Technical Jobs
Location: DIL HQ-Lagos
Application Deadline: Not specified

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership and engineering governance across all projects, covering design assurance, discipline integration, constructability, value engineering and resolution of technical interfaces.
• Establish and enforce engineering management systems, including design review gates, deliverable registers, technical query processes, document review cycles, design-change control and lessons-learned frameworks.
• Lead risk-based engineering decisions under schedule and commercial pressure while maintaining compliance with safety, quality, statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee engineering inputs throughout the project lifecycle, coordinating engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover teams.
• Ensure disciplined vendor and contractor document reviews covering equipment data sheets, drawings, calculations and alignment of interfaces with project requirements.
• Drive constructability and operability reviews so that designs are practical, cost-effective and aligned with construction sequencing and commissioning strategies.
• Manage technical risk identification and mitigation, addressing design, interface and execution risks that could affect cost, schedule or quality.
• Provide authoritative oversight of 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 to support a sustainable, high-quality in-house engineering capability for Dangote Construction.

Requirements and Qualifications

Education and Professional Credentials

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline, including Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Control, Chemical, Process, Industrial or a related field.
• Professional engineering registration is required or strongly preferred depending on sign-off authority. This may include COREN registration for Nigeria-based engineering practice or a recognised international Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer credential with eligibility for Nigerian recognition.
• Strong knowledge of international codes and standards relevant to the project scope, including API, ASME, ASTM, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, BS/Eurocodes, ISO and discipline-specific design standards.
• Demonstrated technical authority, design review, design-change control, constructability and engineering risk-management capability.
• Proven experience across FEED, detailed engineering, design reviews, vendor design review, technical queries, interface management, change control and construction technical support.
• Experience managing external design consultants, EPC engineering centres, licensors, vendors and contractor engineering interfaces.

Functional Competencies

• Experience in process plant, refinery, petrochemical, cement, power, ports, marine works, industrial infrastructure, roads, utilities or large-building engineering.
• Prior owner-engineer or technical-authority experience in addition to EPC contractor or design-consultant experience.
• Experience with EDMS platforms, BIM/3D model review, Aconex, Navisworks, SmartPlant, AVEVA, Revit, Civil 3D or comparable engineering delivery systems.
• Experience managing international engineering centres and reconciling international design output with Nigerian site conditions, codes, permits and construction realities.
• Senior professional status such as COREN Registered Engineer, MNSE/FNSE, Chartered Engineer, Professional Engineer or an equivalent recognised credential.

Quick Eligibility Check

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline; professional engineering registration is required or strongly preferred depending on sign-off authority.
• Preferred qualification: Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Required experience: Minimum 20 years of engineering and design-management experience on major capital projects, EPC, EPCM, PMC, owner-engineering or construction-support assignments, including a minimum of 10 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams or engineering managers.
• Verified duty station: DIL HQ-Lagos
• Core requirement: Strong knowledge of international engineering codes and standards
• Core requirement: Demonstrated technical authority and engineering risk-management capability
• Core requirement: Experience across FEED, detailed engineering, design review and construction technical support
• Core requirement: Experience managing external consultants, vendors and contractor engineering interfaces

Application Readiness Checklist

• Make the required qualification easy to verify in the education or certification section of your CV.
• If applicable, make the preferred qualification easy to verify in the education or certification section of your CV.
• Show evidence of the required experience through relevant roles, dates and measurable responsibilities.
• Tailor your CV to highlight engineering leadership, design assurance, multidisciplinary coordination, technical risk management and major-project delivery experience relevant to this role
• Confirm that the vacancy is still open before submitting your application.

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