Engineering Director at Dangote Industries Limited

Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified business conglomerates with a hard – earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Director

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• Provide engineering assurance and technical leadership across EPC/PMC/construction delivery, ensuring effective multidisciplinary integration and disciplined design management.
• Act as a technical authority to uphold engineering standards, support delivery performance, and ensure safe, fit-for-purpose, and high-quality project execution across all phases.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 (TQ) processes, document review cycles, design‑change control, and lessons‑learned frameworks.
• Lead risk‑based engineering decision‑making under schedule and commercial pressure, while maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee engineering inputs across the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless coordination between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover teams.
• Ensure strong vendor and contractor document review discipline, including equipment data sheets, drawings, calculations, and interface alignment with project requirements.
• Drive constructability and operability reviews, ensuring designs are practical, cost‑effective, and aligned with construction sequencing and commissioning strategies.
• Manage technical risk identification and mitigation, proactively addressing design, interface, and execution risks that could impact cost, schedule, or quality.
• Provide authoritative oversight on 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, positioning Dangote Construction with a sustainable, high‑quality in‑house engineering capability.

Key Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant engineering discipline, such as Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Control, Chemical, Process, Industrial or related field. Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Professional engineering registration required or strongly preferred depending on sign-off authority: COREN registration for Nigeria-based engineering practice or recognized international Chartered Engineer / Professional Engineer credential with eligibility for Nigerian recognition.
• Minimum 20 years engineering and design-management experience on major capital projects, EPC, EPCM, PMC, owner-engineering or construction-support organizations.
• Minimum 10 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams or engineering managers across civil / structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, process, systems and construction-support interfaces.
• Strong knowledge of international codes and standards relevant to project scope, such as 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 track record 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:

• Process plant, refinery, petrochemical, cement, power, ports, marine works, industrial infrastructure, roads, utilities or large building engineering experience.
• Prior owner-engineer or technical-authority role in addition to EPC contractor / 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 equivalent recognized credential.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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