Construction Manager - EET Engineering

Job description / Role

Construction Manager - EET Engineering - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Leading various projects teams from design through to delivery and ensures that the given assignments are completed within stipulated time and allocated budget by following not only site HSE plan but also in a sustainable fashion. Coordination with stakeholders & ensure that the delivered products meet the needs of the project. Supervising the planning, designing, construction and close out phase of the projects.

Key Accountabilitiies include:
- Review and approve subcontractor selections and invoicing
- Coordinate construction activities with the client, subcontractors and Company personnel
- Manage project staff, including assigned support staff, supervisors, engineers, foreman, and technicians
- Promote, enforce and establish safety as a priority as part of the Company's QHSC policy
- Ensure that management is accurately and fully informed of project costs as compared to budgets through weekly labor and monthly budget reports
- Coordinate and provide direction for the budget estimating, purchasing, engineering, accounting, cost and construction functions as they relate to the completion of the project.
- Initiate, establish and maintain working relationships with client, engineers, suppliers, and subcontractors to facilitate construction activities
- Organize, conduct and represent the company at project coordination meetings at regular agreed upon intervals.
- Review and approve subcontractor, vendor payments.
- Negotiate, prepare issue and execute change orders (proposals) to clients, design team, subcontractors and others, and prepare revisions to original budget as a result of changes and revisions to work.
- Ensure timely and accurate billings and accounts receivables.
- Ensure timely project completion through project scheduling, expediting of material deliveries and the management of material and document submittals/approvals.
- Lead and participate in regularly schedule project staff meetings
- Manage Closeout process
- Enforce and adhere to all Policies and Processes

Requirements

- You must have a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and based in Saudi Arabia with with transferable Iqama.
- Minimum 10 years in core MEP projects out of which 5 years in a similar role on a large-scale projects

Technical Skills:
- Communication skills
- Presentation of logical arguments and reasoning analysis
- Leadership skills
- Stress-management ability
- Execution of building services as a contractor like power, lighting, MV, LV, ELV cables routing & termination, Earthing, Electrical Panels, control systems, low current implementation, testing & commissioning, etc. capable of supervising detailed engineering works, coordinated shop drawings, technical submittals, liaison with consultants, coordinate with various disciplines and site supervision.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.