Engineering Excellence

Achieving engineering excellence is at the core of all Wood Group Kenny (WGK) businesses. The Wood Group Engineering Excellence Guide was issued in November 2010 and provides a clear framework of how WGK manages and engineers projects, provides technical assurance, provides a consistent approach to service delivery, captures best practice through all phases of a project and allows for easier collaboration.

Colin McKinnon has been appointed as the Group Engineering Authority for WGK. To support improved knowledge management, a network of Engineering Authorities (EA), Discipline Technical Authorities (DTA) and Subject Mater Experts (SME) have been appointed covering each WGK business and each office, internationally.

The Business Engineering Authorities are:

The main focus of the engineering excellence initiative in 2011 has been the capture of project management  and engineering best practice around the group, implementation of a group wide procedure covering technical assurance and process safety management, implementation of a group-wide competency management procedure to ensure all project work is performed by suitably qualified, trained, and experienced personnel, alignment of the quality management systems of the individual operating company to give greater consistency, and improved knowledge management including a major upgrade to the intranet.