Project Engineer Electrical

Company overview

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions: automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Overview of the role

The project electrical engineer typically operates on a project and is responsible for all electrical activities. In this capacity, he is responsible for the success of the execution of electrical activities in line with the project’s goals.

What you will do

Key accountability 1: Project management

• Deliver the project on time, within the budget and acceptable quality to all stakeholders.
• Liaise with all stakeholders (main contractors, consultants, client and internal departments) to ensure project deliverables are catered for during the engineering, execution and close out of the project.
• Coordinate with planning engineer, junior engineers and supervisors in quantifying total material and labour requirements for the project, ensuring timely order of materials, planning, arranging of labour and sub-contractors.
• Coordinate with planning engineer, junior engineers and supervisors in monitoring daily productivity, comparing with planned, taking corrective actions for loss of productivity.
• Manage and oversee installation and construction work from time to time and ensure efficient standards of workmanship are maintained.
• Maximise the efficient use of plant and equipment from within the organization.
• Liaise with local authorities as required.

Key accountability 2: Cost management

• Coordinate with QS to ensure that all variation works are captured, delays notified so that effective claims are made to increase budgeted project margins.
• Check for options to propose good value engineering solutions on the designs which could mutually benefit all stakeholders, including a potential improvement to the budgeted profit margins.

Key accountability 3: Engineering

• Coordinate with engineers and drafting team for the submission and approval of shop drawings, tracking progress by shop drawing register.
• Coordinate with engineers and procurement department for vendor finalization, material submission and approvals of suppliers, vendors and equipment, tracking progress by material submission and procurement register.
• Seek resolution on complex technical problems as required to ensure satisfactory completion of design and construction.
• Coordinate with mechanical and other trades for verification of actual equipment loads with IFCs, notifying changes.
• Liaise with DEWA, ADDC, ETISALAT, DU and DCD authorities for approvals and maintain up-to-date knowledge on the current regulations and standards.

Key accountability 4: Quality and standards

• Apply internal engineering and construction standards, operating procedures, specifications and templates so that project delivery, engineering and construction are conducted in a consistent manner.
• Maintain lessons learnt register, exchange technical information and learnings within the organization to maintain awareness of internal projects, developments and trends.
• Develop method statements for each activity in line with project specifications.
• Manage project closeout documentation.

Key accountability 5: Health, safety and environment

• Ensure that all company and subcontract personnel are complying with AFE HSE policy.
• Report all personal injuries and incidents and assist with investigations.
• Actively support and participate in safety and environmental initiatives.
• Ensure job safety analyses (JSAs) are completed as required.

What equips for the role

Minimum qualifications, certification and knowledge:
Degree in electrical engineering.

Minimum experience:
8+ years of experience in MEP contracting companies, at least 3 years in UAE.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions. The engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure and digital transformation.

The technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.