Engineering Director (Dangote Construction & Heavy Industries)
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Dangote Industries Limited is hiring an Engineering Director to lead engineering assurance and technical governance across EPC/PMC and construction delivery projects. The role is based at DIL HQ in Lagos, Nigeria, and requires strong multidisciplinary design management, vendor/contractor document review, and leadership of engineering teams. The position focuses on safe, fit-for-purpose, high-quality project execution and building a sustainable in-house engineering capability.
- Senior technical leadership role across EPC/PMC and construction delivery
- Based at Dangote Industries HQ in Lagos, Nigeria
- Leads engineering assurance, design management, and multidisciplinary integration
- Responsible for vendor/contractor document review and technical risk management
- Focus on building a Lagos-led in-house engineering capability
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Job Title: Engineering Director (Dangote Construction & Heavy Industries)
Engineering Director (Dangote Construction & Heavy Industries) at Dangote Industries Limited
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Sep 21, 2026, 6:14 AM
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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:
Location: DIL HQ - Lagos
Job Summary
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.
Provide engineering assurance and technical leadership across EPC/PMC/construction delivery, ensuring effective multidisciplinary integration and disciplined design management.
Key Duties &
Responsibilities
- Lead risk‑based engineering decision‑making under schedule and commercial pressure, while maintaining strict adherence to safety, quality, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure strong vendor and contractor document review discipline, including equipment data sheets, drawings, calculations, and interface alignment with project requirements.
- 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.
- Provide overall technical leadership and engineering governance across all projects, ensuring design assurance, discipline integration, constructability, value engineering, and effective resolution of technical interfaces.
- 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.
- Manage technical risk identification and mitigation, proactively addressing design, interface, and execution risks that could impact cost, schedule, or quality.
- Establish and grow a Lagos‑led engineering assurance function, positioning Dangote Construction with a sustainable, high‑quality in‑house engineering capability.
- Drive constructability and operability reviews, ensuring designs are practical, cost‑effective, and aligned with construction sequencing and commissioning strategies.
- Oversee engineering inputs across the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless coordination between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover teams.
- Key
Requirements
Education
and Work
Experience
Demonstrated technical authority, design review, design-change control, constructability and engineering risk-management capability.
Professional engineering registration required or strongly
on major capital projects, EPC, EPCM, PMC, owner-engineering or construction-support organizations.
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.
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.
Proven track record across FEED, detailed engineering, design reviews, vendor design review, technical queries, interface management, change control and construction technical support.
Minimum 10 years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams or engineering managers across civil / structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, process, systems and construction-support interfaces.
managing external design consultants, EPC engineering centres, licensors, vendors and contractor engineering interfaces.
Functional Competencies:
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.
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.
with EDMS platforms, BIM / 3D model review, Aconex, Navisworks, SmartPlant, AVEVA, Revit, Civil 3D or comparable engineering delivery systems.
How to Apply
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Preferred Qualifications
- 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