Underground Pipe Laying Supervisor

Job description / Role

- Checking with construction manager for morning schedule.
- Assessing job priorities and assigning employees to appropriate job tasks.
- Making sure employees have tools and equipment needed for job in order to ensure safety and production
- Ensuring that excavation and pipe levels are maintained and that layer works are executed according to specs.
- Make sure that critical areas such as intersections are identified and that services do not clash.
- Ensuring that materials are delivered to site ahead of time to avoid down time.
- Overseeing the work and making sure it runs smoothly and as per the project plan.
- Giving clear directions to crews as to what needs to be done to avoid repetitive mistakes, or rework.
- Making sure company rules are followed by crew.
- Hold a daily meeting and record a record of it in the log for future references.
- Acts as leader and supervisor for small crews engaged in construction, and in the laying of the pipes.
- In the absence of the construction manager, supervises operations, directing sub-contractors, and maintaining material inventory.
- Ensures that all equipment is safe and ready for operation at all times, reports to construction manager on damage and non-functioning parts and equipment, ensures that normal servicing of equipment is performed properly and advises and assists as necessary the Field Service Technician. Operates motor vehicles and equipment necessary for completion of projects.
- Performs labor incidental to the work of operating equipment, other laboring tasks when required.
- Regular attendance and punctuality at the workplace is required

Requirements

- Thorough knowledge of division operations.
- Considerable knowledge of the materials, methods and techniques relative to road/highway construction and maintenance.
- Knowledge of field safety.
- Skill and knowledge in operating equipment such as excavators, front end loaders, motor graders, backhoes, etc. commonly used in dirt work.
- Ability to participate in and supervise workers operating light, heavy, and special motorized equipment.
- Ability to supervise road/highway construction projects from general plans and instructions given and to determine the proper amounts of various materials, tools, and equipment needed.
- Ability to make minor repairs and adjustments to equipment operated.
- Ability to read engineering plans and blueprints.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally with supervisor and crew.
- Flexibility: Ability to work in a number of diverse locations is pertinent, as work locations may change daily.

About the Company

AL-Yamama was established as a trading and contracting firm in the year 1372H (1952G) and has executed hundreds of projects since then in the fields of construction, O&M, Roads, Landscaping ...etc.

With the view to diversify company activities and make it broad based, AL-Yamama has established specialized divisions for Power, Desalination, Railways ...etc. and has allied with reputable companies in these fields and Participated in relative consortiums.