Senior Project Engineer

Working Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Contract Type: Permanent

Key Responsibilities
- Assist the project to meet its safety targets and advise safety improvements.
- Be a team player, collaborate, and add value to the assigned project.
- Coordinate/Communicate with other disciplines, Contractor, and Client.
- Assist and support project managers and directors to manage all aspects of projects from design to implementation and handover.
- Review critical Contractor's deliverables as required and ensure all Contractor's engineering and design work performed meets contractual obligations, quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
- Ensure all Contractor's design work is safe and carried out in a safe manner.
- Ensure all Contractor's design work conforms to the codes and standards used by the Client or to agreed industry standards and comply with all local codes and regulations.
- If required, perform designing/engineering work/delivery as part of the team.
- Coordinate with clients to develop/finalize design specifications to meet their project needs with the ability to interpret Client specifications.
- Quality Assurance - Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the agreed projects' Quality Assurance system.
- Identify issues and problems, develop appropriate solutions, and advise Client, and ask for assistance when required.
- If required, assist, support and help develop junior personnel within the team.
- If required, provide support during fabrication, site construction, and commissioning activities.
- As required, attend factory and site acceptance testing (FAT and SAT).
- Keep up to date with the latest developments and technical innovations in Project Management.
- Review overall quality of the project (budget, schedule, plans, personnel's performance) and report regularly on project status.
- Review the various inputs to the overall Project Plan and identify dependencies, issues, and inconsistencies. Suggest schedule changes where required.
- As required on smaller projects, act as the lead engineer and manage the input of multi-discipline engineering and design teams.
- Review deliverables submitted by Contractor and advised appropriate comments and improvement actions.
- Conduct regular meetings with Client and Contractor as well as key stakeholders to identify and resolve issues.
- Assist in the selection of suitable vendors and subcontractors.
- Delegate tasks to team members according to their individual skill sets, experience, and abilities to ensure efficient completion of the project.
- Identify risks and ensure the risk register is established, monitor the same and suggest risk mitigation plans.
- Monitor project budget and share feedback to Client, whenever required.
- Assist the project controls team in management of changes.
- Prepare meeting minutes, progress reports and presentations and deliver presentations.
- Track performance and analyses the completion of key goals and advise on critical issues that may cause delays.
- Document and report project progress to stakeholders and clients.
- Monitor adherence to performance standards, specifications, QA/QC rules, and related regulations and processes.
- Assist project management and Clients in developing key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Establish systems to collect data and measure the project's metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Organize discipline leaders for conducting field tests and for assessing their quality.

Requirements

Education
- As minimum a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (any discipline)

Mandatory Competencies
- Communication Skills
- Work in office and site-based environments
- PRIMAVERA
- ACONEX literacy
- ADNOC experience
- Gulf experience
- Brown field experience

Experience
- 10-15 years relevant experience
- Have worked for at least 3 years in similar positions for an international company

ADNOC Approvals
- ADNOC site-specific approval (advantage)

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects and further your career in engineering project leadership. Apply now if you have the right skills and experience to join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering excellence.