Resident Engineer - Roads / Utilities / Drainage

Atkins Middle East

Doha, Qatar

Ref: HP331-990

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

- Establish the site organization and lines of authority
- Be responsible for the conduct of the project.
- Take responsibility for all technical, contractual and financial matters relating to the delivery of the consultant’s supervision duties
- Establish standards and procedures in conformity with client requirements
- Liaise daily with the client’s Project management team
- Manage the supervision team and monitor and supervise their performance and attendance
- Liaise with the Contractor
- Attend and chair meetings
- Prepare reports
- Monitor progress of the works against the contractor’s latest approved programme.
- Check and sign all correspondence
- Sign off the contractor’s interim payments following review by the SQS
- Identify and initiate recruitment of site staff through standard process
- Implement financial controls on the construction element of project
- Identify training needs and provide or recommend external training
- Set and maintain under review Company performance expectations
- Maintain reasonable discipline, resolve poor performance issues
- Provide pastoral care and encourage staff to develop their full potential
- Identify and manage project construction risks
- Advise the Project Manager on delays, cost and cost forecasts and progress
- Ensure quality of supervision and of work completed by Contractor
- Ensure implementation and maintenance of good records and documentation
- Ensure preparation of quality, safety and environmental plans/procedures and that they are met.
- Coordinate backup support from Head Office staff and technical co-ordination with discipline heads.
- Continually seek to improve upon the service provided and to come up with innovative ideas.

Requirements

The Resident Engineer shall ideally be qualified with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from an internationally recognised accredited University plus minimum fifteen (15) years Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer (PE) registration or other similar professional organization.

Minimum twenty (20) years post graduate experience in design, site supervision, and construction management of major highway projects of complex nature.

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

  • focus on quality
  • seek world class design and excellence
  • strive to add value
  • be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).

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