Job Summary

The Engineer will be responsible for monitoring, reviewing and reporting the Developer’s/Contractor’s project programme, progress, resources, critical activities, delays and recovery measures for the Smart City development.

Key Responsibilities (Financial)

• Ensure responsibilities are fulfilled with a high quality and in a cost-effective manner

Key Responsibilities (Customer Focus)

• Support Project Managers with managing client relations and expectations, as needed
• Support Project Managers with responding to client clarifications on technical and contractual issues, as needed
• Support Project Managers with organizing inspections by third parties, as needed

Key Responsibilities (Internal Business Process)

• Review and monitor the Contractor’s baseline programme and updates.
• Monitor actual progress against planned progress and identify programme variances.
• Maintain and analyze project schedules using Primavera P6.
• Review critical path, near-critical activities and programme logic.
• Monitor design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning activities.
• Identify delays, constraints, interface issues and potential impacts on project completion.
• Review Contractor’s recovery programmes and mitigation measures.
• Prepare progress reports, dashboards, S-curves, progress measurement and performance indicators.
• Monitor key milestones and contractual completion dates.
• Review look-ahead programmes and weekly/monthly progress updates.
• Analyze delay events and their impact on the critical path.
• Assist in reviewing Extension of Time submissions, Time Impact Analyses, delay notices and programme updates.
• Monitor resources, productivity and planned versus actual performance.
• Coordinate programme information with commercial, engineering and construction teams.
• Prepare schedule narratives and management reports.
• Maintain effective records of programme revisions, progress updates and delay events.

Key Responsibilities (Learning & Growth)

• Attend periodic training to further develop relevant skills

Qualification, Technical Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or equivalent discipline.
• PMP/ Prince2 practitioner Certification is preferred.
• Chartered Professional Engineering certification or equivalent is preferred
• Knowledge of construction supervision services
• Understanding of international engineering standards and codes
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Good time management skills
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Good knowledge of scheduling and planning software (e.g. Primavera)
• Proficiency in spoken and written Arabic and English

Overall Experience Required to Execute this Role

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Building and Infrastructure work.

Specific Experience Required to Execute this Role

• Minimum 15 years of planning/scheduling experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Smart City, infrastructure, large-scale development, or technology-enabled infrastructure projects.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in the Middle East/GCC region is mandatory.