Senior Construction Engineer - Roads

Project Description:

Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company is providing Project Management Consultancy services (including technical, commercial, and construction management) for the development of certain defined aspects of the NEOM Infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” NEOM is a planned city in the Tabuk Province of north-western Saudi Arabia.

NEOM will be the home and workplace to more than a million residents from around the world. It will include towns and cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centres, sports and entertainment venues, and tourist destinations. As a hub for innovation, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and companies will come to research, incubate, and commercialize new technologies and enterprises in ground-breaking ways. 

Summary:

The Senior Construction Engineer – Roads is responsible for the support of contractors’ works and work completion of a portfolio of new capital investment works across a wide variety of road projects. The role will span from the conceptual stages through planning, engineering, procurement, construction, approvals, delivery, and contract close-out.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:

• Construction monitoring and compliance of contractors, ensuring works are carried out as per the drawings, specifications and standards, as per schedule and ensures compliance to ES&H plans, quality standards and local/national regulatory safety codes.
• Coordinate performance of the installation contractors, project status, schedule, cost control, change management systems.
• Coordinate with contractors, engineers, client, and other stakeholders involved in foundation works and superstructure installation.
•  Input to ensure continuous construction work fronts availability through review of look ahead schedules, commodity charts, resource charts, engineering deliverables, material delivery schedules and any other service requirements including contractor submittals.
•  Ensures required permits and licenses are in place prior to the start of the specific work at site. Verifies compliance with Permit and License requirements and stipulations.
•  Responsible for reviewing and approving the contractor's submittals, technical queries, Field change documents and other technical documents including Drawings and As-Builts.
•  Ensure all materials and equipment on the site fully comply with international standard and technical specification requirements.
•  Ensure the closure of project is systematic and complete in all respects
•  Maintains an effective relationship with other functional departments and coordinates all jobsite contractual activities.
• Provide guidance and technical advice to the Construction Engineers, contractors and monitor their performance.
•  Coordinates and monitors interfaces with other contractors, lead the review meetings.