Engineering & Construction Project Technology Specialist

Atkins Middle East

Saudi Arabia

Ref: HP331-1163

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Faithful+Gould is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management and cost consultancy services provider; with over 2,400 professionals operating throughout Asia Pacific, UK and Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. We support clients with the construction and management of their key assets, important projects and programmes. Our approach is committed to providing first-class professional advice and delivering a quality of service which is second-to-none. This has helped enable our business to develop and maintain robust and long-lasting client partnerships.

Active in the Middle East for over 18 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. As a member of the Atkins Group, one of the world’s leading design, engineering and project management consultancies, we hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Job Duties:
• Defines scope of project, with responsibility for interpreting, organizing and executing project assignments.
• Manages problems for investigation, liaises with Discipline Engineers in developing novel approaches and solutions to technical problems.
• Conducts quality control checks, reviewing calculations, designs, evaluations and specifications developed by design staff for accuracy and completeness, performing on-site inspections and reviews, and conducting or overseeing remedial design work.
• Keeps abreast of state-of-the-art methods and developments in area of specialization.
• Recommends changes or improvements to plans and programs.
• May function as the project manager for routine to non-complex projects.
• Responsibilities includses reviewing technical bids for contracts, schedule coordination and resources allocation.
• Performs such other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.

Role:
• Providing high level input into the project execution planning
• Consulting on the project schedule in conjunction with the Cost and Scheduler Engineers with emphasis on optimisation
• Overseeing production, development and implementation of project histogram

Requirements

• Experienced PM with extensive experience of Engineering, Commissioning and Procurement
• Experience of overseeing Engineering & Construction projects through complete lifecycle (‘blank page to project delivery’)
• 12 years post qualification experience
• Some previous site based construction experience would be beneficial
• Experience of Front End Load (FEED)
• Strong technical writing and communications skills are expected at this level, proven through technical presentations, technical papers and/or participation in technical committees.
• Professional Engineer

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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Engineer salaries in Saudi Arabia

Average monthly compensation
SAR 9,000

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