Description:
Essential Job Duties
- Construction monitoring and compliance of contractors, ensuring works are carried out as per the drawings, specifications and standards, as per schedule and ensures compliance to ES&H plans, quality standards and local/national regulatory safety codes
- Coordinate performance of the installation contractors, project status, schedule, cost control, change management systems
- Coordinate with contractors, engineers, client, and other stakeholders involved in foundation works and superstructure installation
- Input to ensure continuous construction work fronts availability through review of look ahead schedules, commodity charts, resource charts, engineering deliverables, material delivery schedules and any other service requirements including contractor submittals
- Ensures required permits and licenses are in place prior to the start of the specific work at site. Verifies compliance with Permit and License requirements and stipulations
- Responsible for reviewing and approving the contractor's submittals, technical queries, Field change documents and other technical documents including Drawings and As-Builts
- Ensure all materials and equipment on the site fully comply with international standard and technical specification requirements
- Ensure the closure of project is systematic and complete in all respects
- Maintains an effective relationship with other functional departments and coordinates all jobsite contractual activities
- Provide guidance and technical advice to the Construction Engineers, contractors and monitor their performance
- Coordinates and monitors interfaces with other contractors, lead the review meetings
Qualifications
Qualifications, Experience, Job Knowledge and Skill set Requirements:
- A recognized bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- Minimum 15 years’ experience in construction or engineering projects
- Experience with a Contractor or a Project Management Consultant on a construction project
- Experience in arranging and supervising bulk electrical installation, equipment preservation & storage, including installation works ongoing at multiple sites at any one time
- Preferred experience of working on the installation of
- Medium Voltage and High Voltage buried and overhead transmission lines
- Electrical switchgear in switch yards, including in operational facilities
- Site wide electrical distribution across a campus of buildings or facilities
- Large electrical equipment such as transformers eg in large publicly occupied buildings
- Bulk electrical installations on very large projects such as cable management, conduit, raceway and containment
- Internal building and facility electrical networks and devices including Fire and life safety systems, vertical movement (lifts and escalators) and architectural lighting systems
- Awareness of the methods, codes and standards for instrumentation and controls installation and commissioning such as the BS 7671 - 18th Edition - IET Wiring Regulations and the Saudi Electrical Code
- Awareness of safety and quality standards, specifications and codes as applicable to construction of industrial and infrastructure projects
- Must have good oral and written communication skills in English
- Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet and database applications
- Experience in KSA / Middle east / GCC is preferred
- judgment, with a passion to take ownership of projects and provide sound technical leadership to contractor’s staff and construction engineers
- Experience of working and living in remote camp locations is preferred