Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world. 

Wood has an exciting opportunity a Global Competence Manager to join us on a permanent basis. You will inspire Wood’s enterprise approach to competence, providing a single, assured view of workforce capability across all regions, business units, and disciplines. Shaping and standardising how competence is defined you will lead and align stakeholders through formal governance, consensus‑building, and evidence‑based decision making in a complex, matrixed organisation. 

This role is open to hybrid working from any of our UK offices. 

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The Role

The Global Competence Manager will role design, operate and governs Wood’s global competency framework and systems, ensuring consistent standards, robust assessment and assurance, and high‑quality data while providing trusted insight to inform workforce planning, learning investment and risk management. The role holder has enterprise authority over competency standards, assessment and assurance methodologies, evidence and verification requirements, and reporting, with the autonomy to challenge, escalate and drive remediation where competency or safety risks are identified.

In the near term, the role delivers a major transformation to eliminate fragmentation and establish one global competency framework and system, while safeguarding business‑as‑usual competence assurance and safety outcomes. Over the longer term, the role embeds competency as a core enabler of safe delivery, workforce planning, deployment, and learning.

 

Our Clients and Projects 

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood delivers solutions across more than 60 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally. 

For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.

What we can offer

Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle  Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession