ASSET ACADEMY · DITLO ENGINEERING MANAGER
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Engineering Manager DITLO Ready Reckoner

You Protect Technical Integrity — Governance, Engineering Quality, and Defect Elimination Start With You

As Engineering Manager, your role is not to solve technical problems in isolation. It is to ensure technical integrity, engineering governance, design assurance, and modification quality remain strong across operations, maintenance, and projects.

This ready reckoner reframes your role from technical problem solver to technical integrity custodian, engineering governance owner, MoC and deviation gatekeeper, root cause and defect elimination leader, and capital project engineering partner.

When your operating rhythm is strong, engineering standards are applied, technical risks are visible, MoC and deviations are controlled, permanent fixes progress, and projects are engineered correctly. When it is weak, technical debt grows, temporary repairs linger, engineering controls fragment, and integrity risk accumulates.

Your role is to ensure engineering decisions are safe, compliant, technically sound, and aligned to long-term asset value.

Strategic role criteria

The Engineering Manager operating windows

Window 1 · Technical Risk, Engineering Support & Daily Operational Stability

Ensure safe, compliant, technically sound operations.

  • Interpret engineering risk signals through critical controls, engineering deviations, MoC impacts, and asset integrity threats.
  • Identify emerging technical risks and escalate engineering concerns to GM-AM and Operations.
  • Provide engineering support to operations by reviewing production-impacting issues, permit/access risks, high-risk jobs, temporary repairs, and risk acceptances.

Window 2 · Engineering Governance, MoC, Defect Elimination & Technical Problem-Solving

Maintain engineering discipline and resolve technical issues.

  • Govern the Management of Change process, review engineering deviations, and ensure standards are applied consistently.
  • Lead or support RCFA investigations and resolve technical problems affecting reliability.
  • Review drawings, specifications, calculations, temporary repairs, permanent fixes, and technical input to job plans and materials.

Window 3 · Capital Projects, Assurance, Data Quality & Continuous Improvement

Ensure engineering quality in projects and strengthen technical governance.

  • Provide engineering governance for capital projects through design reviews, HAZOPs, and risk assessments.
  • Review project engineering deliverables, technical specifications, commissioning readiness, and handover quality.
  • Review assurance findings, close-out progress, engineering data quality in CMMS/EAM, and field audits of engineering standards compliance.

Tiered governance rhythm

This full-width governance cadence aligns the Engineering Manager operating rhythm to daily technical support and risk clarity, weekly RCFA and MoC governance, monthly assurance and project engineering review, and quarterly strategy, capability, and technical integrity alignment.

Daily

Technical support and risk.

  • Engineering risk scan
  • MoC and deviation review
  • Support to operations and maintenance
  • Field verification walk and Tier 2 participation

Weekly

RCFA, MoC, and engineering quality.

  • Weekly RCFA review
  • MoC governance review
  • Engineering support backlog review
  • Temporary repairs and permanent fix review

Monthly

Governance, assurance, and capital projects.

  • Engineering governance review
  • Assurance and audit checkpoint
  • Capital project engineering review
  • CMMS/EAM engineering data quality audit

Quarterly

Strategy, capability, and technical integrity.

  • Asset strategy technical review
  • Engineering capability and training plan
  • Long-term engineering risk outlook
  • Shutdown/turnaround engineering readiness

Strategic verification question categories

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Role assurance summary

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Wallie · Asset Management Facilitator