Engineering Director (Dangote Construction & Heavy Industries)

About this role

The role is Engineering Director for Dangote Construction and Heavy Industries, based in Lagos. It provides engineering assurance and technical leadership across EPC, PMC and construction delivery, acting as the technical authority to ensure safe, fit-for-purpose and high-quality project execution. It includes building and leading a Lagos-based engineering assurance function and coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover teams.

What you would do

• 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 processes, document review cycles, design-change control and lessons learned frameworks.
• Lead risk-based engineering decision-making under schedule and commercial pressure, while maintaining safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Oversee engineering inputs across the project lifecycle, coordinating between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover teams.
• Manage vendor and contractor document review, including equipment data sheets, drawings, calculations and interface alignment with project requirements.
• Build, mentor and lead discipline engineering leads, developing internal capability and establishing a Lagos-led engineering assurance function.

What they are asking for

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline; master's degree or MBA preferred.
• COREN registration or international Chartered/Professional Engineer credential with eligibility for Nigerian recognition.
• Minimum twenty years' engineering and design-management experience on major capital projects (EPC, EPCM, PMC or related).
• Minimum ten years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across civil/structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, process, systems and construction-support interfaces.
• Strong knowledge of international codes and standards (API, ASME, ASTM, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, BS/Eurocodes, ISO) and proven track record in FEED, detailed engineering, design reviews, vendor design reviews, interface management and change control.
• Experience with EDMS platforms and engineering delivery tools (BIM/3D model reviews, Aconex, Navisworks, SmartPlant, AVEVA, Revit, Civil 3D) and managing international engineering centres while reconciling design output with Nigerian site conditions; plus prior owner-engineer or technical-authority role.

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