Bechtel Corporation Looking for Assistant Resident Engineer, Ras-Al-Khair at Saudi Arabia Full Time

• Relocation Authorized: International – Family
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Ras Al Khair

Position Summary

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements-a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logistical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times-and it’s getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Bechtel serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or owner’s representative for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

Work Location: Ras-Al-Khair

The work location for this position is in Ras-Al-Khair which is located about 90 KMS north of Jubail Industrial City. You will be required to commute Jubail – Ras-Al-Khair – Jubail daily using the available transportation facility /shuttle bus service. The accommodation will be provided at Jubail Industrial City.

Major Responsibilities

The Assistant Resident Engineer is assigned to a field construction organization in a supervisory capacity. Responsible for supervising and directing operations within assigned discipline or area. Supervises and directs Contractor’s activities, subordinate superintendents and others, as assigned. Ensures assigned construction operations and subcontractors performance is in compliance with specifications and within schedules and budgets. Performs general functions inherent in all supervisory field positions.

Job Duties

• Responsible for field construction operations within assigned discipline or area.
• Determines contractor’s workforce requirements. Coordinates established area operational plans.
• Monitors work activities and ensures the quality of work performed.
• Ensures the most current design document is used to complete the work and that all design changes are approved prior to implementation.
• Prepares daily reports and forecasts, including summary of construction progress, contractor personnel forecasts, and expenditures forecast.
• Monitors tool usage on the site. Review Field Material Requisitions for tools and consumables and ensures that the crafts have the tools they require to be productive.
• Monitors the activities of subcontractors to ensure compliance with specifications and schedules.
• Responsible for the implementation of client/project policies, procedures and instructions within assigned operations.
• Coordinates activities with other disciplines or areas and clients resident representatives, as instructed by construction management.
• Performs employee reviews and identifies training and development opportunities for subordinate personnel.
• Ensures that client, Bechtel and local/national safety codes, requirements and standards are being complied with within assigned area of responsibility. Ensures the Zero Accident Philosophy is incorporated into every aspect of construction operations. Actively participates in scheduled safety meetings.
• Implements Six Sigma tools, analysis, and decision making in the execution of duties.

Skills And Qualifications

Essential Technical:

• University Degree in Engineering or construction management discipline with minimum ten (10) years of construction experience.
• Knowledge of a single or multi-discipline construction operation.
• Knowledge of the use of contracts, and the contractor and subcontractor’s responsibilities contained in contract documents.
• Experience working with, supervising and administering subcontractors and/or Direct Hire workforce.
• Experience providing daily safety and quality inspections of Contractors physical works related road, bridge, pipeline and associated utility infrastructure works.

Essential Behavioral

• Knowledge of supervisory functions relating to field activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others.
• Contributes to achievement of team goals promotes teamwork.
• Ability to balance work requirements from multiple projects.
• Serve as a resource for training/mentoring colleagues with less experience.

Preferred Technical

• Current/prior Middle East work experience on mega civil infrastructure projects.
• Experience in projects which are budgeted expenditure driven.
• Experience reviewing Contractors submittals, work method statements, safety plans, quality plans and traffic control plans for compliance with contract documents.
• Experience reviewing and processing the contractor’s monthly pay applications.
• Experience reviewing and monitoring the Contractors project schedules.
• Experience writing correspondences to contractors on contractual matters.
• Experience in dealing with the change management & claims.
• Knowledge of the Project ES&H Handbook, the Supervisors ES&H Manual, the Project Safety Management Plan.
• Knowledge of Bechtel and client Standard Work Process Procedures (SWPPs).
• Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheet and database applications in accordance with current Bechtel Standard Application Program (BSAP) standards.

Preferred Behavioral

• Self-motivated individual with good leadership skills and experience and the ability to influence without authority.
• Demonstrated leadership in a team-based environment.
• Ability to manage priorities and take on additional evolving responsibilities with demonstrated experience providing direction/supervising a team.
• Ability to work within an integrated RC/Bechtel/Contractors team at multiple levels in order to achieve safety standards and high quality work.
• Ability to work within a culturally diverse organization, recognizing and respecting differences.

Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure Nuclear, Security & Environmental Energy and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.

Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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