Project Engineer

Role Overview

Project Engineer at Al Shirawi Group. The role involves planning, coordinating, and supervising engineering projects to ensure completion safely, on time, within budget, and in compliance with quality, technical, and HSE requirements.

Role Purpose

To manage engineering projects from conception through completion by coordinating project teams, monitoring performance against specifications and schedules, maintaining compliance with codes and standards, ensuring customer satisfaction, and promoting a safe working environment across all project phases.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Scheduling

• Prepare, schedule, coordinate, and monitor assigned engineering projects.
• Develop project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans and conferring with management.
• Determine project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards.
• Determine project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements.
• Manage projects and plan ahead as needed to meet deadlines.
• Complete technical studies.
• Prepare job cards.
• Conduct monthly site measurements, billing, and material update record-keeping.

Quality Assurance & Control

• Monitor compliance to applicable codes, practices, QA/QC policies, performance standards, and specifications.
• Perform overall quality control of work including budget, schedule, plans, and personnel performance.
• Conduct quality visual inspections to ensure received goods are as per the SMR.
• Review engineering deliverables and initiate appropriate corrective actions.
• Complete estimation, quantity surveying, and quality assurance with adherence to ISO procedures.
• Take corrective actions on audit findings related to HSEQ.
• Report regularly on project status.

Project Team & Resource Management

• Assign responsibilities and mentor project team members.
• Determine project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning personnel to phases and elements, and reviewing bids from contractors.
• Allocate employees to site on a daily basis.
• Train the work group on HSE and operational aspects.
• Ensure workers are safety inducted before undertaking any work.

Stakeholder & Client Relations

• Interact daily with clients to interpret their needs and requirements and represent them in the field.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and vendors.
• Discuss site safety issues with customers and clients.
• Discuss site safety issues and controls with subcontractors.
• Monitor and control subcontractor activities against approved method statements and risk assessment plans.
• Execute works as per main contractors' construction program.
• Collect responsibility to customer satisfaction reports and WCR from clients.
• Collect payment certificates from main contractor and client.

Health, Safety & Environment

• Inspect equipment to ensure it is safe to use.
• Stop any unsafe activity at the workplace.
• Make necessary arrangements to correct unsafe site conditions.
• Warn subordinates under supervision of unsafe behavior at the work site.
• Escalate unsafe actions and conditions to management.
• Ensure equipment is safe and free from defects or hazards.
• Take corrective actions on OH&S findings.
• Undertake toolbox talks based upon changes in OH&S risks at site level.
• Participate in risk assessments and toolbox talks.
• Ensure risk assessments and their controls are adequate as per changing site requirements.
• Participate in safety review meetings at site and provide HSE statistics related to ill health, near misses, and injuries.
• Report ill health, injury, and near misses statistics to safety department.
• Issue permits to work and monitor and close permits to work.
• Participate in emergency drills and take actions as per recommendations.
• Investigate incidents and take corrective action.

Financial & Administrative Management

• Manage projects and control project elements to ensure profitability.
• Maintain project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems.
• Control project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plans, scheduling changes, and recommending actions.
• Raise SMR/PR for project requirements.
• Fill out time sheets for employment.
• Maintain responsibility for project-related handovers to the employer/firm while on vacation, changing positions, or quitting.
• Meet department productivity and quality goals.
• Cooperate and communicate effectively with project manager and other project participants to provide assistance and technical support.
• Utilize allocated resources to achieve Quality and OH&S goals.
• Submit inspection requests and checklists for approval from consultants.

Additional Information

Full details are available on the employer's original posting.