Design Engineering Manager

About the role

The Engineering Design Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating engineering design activities across greenfield and brownfie l d projects, ensuring that design deliverables are technically sound, cost-effective, constructible, and aligned with business, safety , and operational requirements. This role provides design leadership, technical assurance, resource planning, stakeholder coordination, and continuous improvement of design processes, tools, standards, and quality practices. The Engineering Design Manager works closely with discipline engineering leads, project managers, vendors, contractors, and senior management to ensure design priorities are aligned, technically assured, and effectively delivered. Role Scope & Enterprise Impact Serve as a key member of Project and Design Engineering leadership team , with demonstrated experience in Small, Mid Cap Capital Projects, Engineering Management across multiple disciplines including subsea and also exposure to resource planning. The role will contribut e to strategy, operating model evolution, and long-range workforce and capability planning Act as a potential pipeline successor for ENGINE leadership responsibilities, with demonstrated ability to scale impact beyond a single function or portfolio Influence how ENGINE partners with global assets, major capital projects, and functional organizations across Chevron Help shape the next phase of ENGINE's growth, maturity, and integration within Chevron's broader project and operations ecosystem Key Accountabilities Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering design team, providing direction, coaching, feedback, and career development support. Plan, prioritize, and manage design activities to ensure engineering deliverables are completed safely, accurately, on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Oversee the development and review of design basis documents, calculations, drawings, specifications, technical reports, design change documentation, and engineering deliverables. Coordinate design reviews, technical assurance activities, constructability reviews, risk assessments, value engineering, and interdisciplinary checks. Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, company specifications, safety requirements, and quality procedures. Work closely with project managers, discipline leads, operations, construction, procurement, vendors, and contractors to align design solutions with project objectives and execution plans. Manage design resources, workload allocation, capability development, staffing needs, and succession planning for the design engineering team. Identify design risks, interface issues, technical constraints, and opportunities for optimization, and lead the development of practical mitigation plans. Support project planning, cost control, schedule management, scope definition, change management, and progress reporting for design activities. Drive continuous improvement in design processes, engineering tools, digital workflows, lessons learned, standardization, and design quality. Promote a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and technical excellence. Proficient communicator Model The Chevron Way and reinforce high-performance behaviors at scale About you We know our greatest resource is the ingenuity, creativity and innovation of our people. Applications from motivated, talented individuals with a keen interest in the energy industry are encouraged. Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline. Minimum 20 years of relevant experience in engineering, project management, operations, or related technical domains Significant experience in engineering design, design delivery, technical assurance, or project execution within a relevant industry. Demonstrated experience leading multi disciplinary design teams, coordinati

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Total Number of Openings 1 The Chevron Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru India brings together the resources and expertise of the Chevron global network with talent in India to enhance agility and technological innovation to optimize solutions for the world's current and future energy challenges. As one of the leading energy providers worldwide, Chevron is involved in the production of crude oil and natural gas, manufacturing of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and additives, and the development of enabling technologies. Chevron's vision is to be the global energy company most admired for its people, partnerships, and performance. With a clear purpose to develop affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy that enables human progress, we believe human ingenuity has the power to solve any challenge and overcome any obstacle. Meeting the world's growing energy needs requires the pursuit of innovations and advancements that deliver a better future for all.

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