Job description
Role Overview
Assistant Resident Engineer - Site position with Egis Group in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. You will work alongside the Resident Engineer to oversee construction activities, ensure compliance with project specifications, and maintain the highest standards of quality, safety, and technical excellence on site.
Company Overview
Egis is an international player active in architecture, consulting, construction engineering and mobility services, operating in 77 countries with 23,500 employees. With 3,500 employees across 8 countries in the Middle East, Egis has delivered over 700 complex development projects. Ranked among the top ten firms in the Middle East by Engineering News Record (ENR), Egis is committed to sustainable development and provides comprehensive engineering, consulting, and project management services to regional governments, investors, and developers.
Role Purpose
To support the Resident Engineer in overseeing mid-rise to high-rise building construction, ensuring compliance with specifications and drawings, maintaining quality and safety standards, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and managing comprehensive site documentation and handover processes.
Key Responsibilities
Site Supervision & Quality Control
- Supervise and monitor daily construction activities, including enabling works and structural works, ensuring compliance with approved drawings, specifications, and method statements.
- Conduct regular site inspections and monitor quality, progress, safety, and compliance.
- Review technical drawings, specifications, shop drawings, method statements, and construction methodologies.
- Support quality assurance and control processes and ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
Technical Monitoring
- Monitor key construction activities including shoring, dewatering, waterproofing, PT slabs, façade works, and structural works.
- Demonstrate effective leadership and coordination skills while managing multiple site activities and, where required, concurrent projects.
- Assist with project scheduling, progress monitoring, risk identification, and resolution of technical and site issues.
Coordination & Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate site activities between contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Coordinate documentation and the handover process between Enabling Works and Main Works contractors, including relevant authority and slab casting documentation.
Documentation & Administration
- Manage and maintain site documentation, including inspection records, progress reports, photographic records, and handover documentation.
BIM & Technical Integration
- Maintain familiarity with BIM processes and support BIM-based coordination and technical reviews.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Substantial experience in mid-rise to high-rise building projects with a proven track record in site supervision and construction management.
- Strong technical knowledge of structural and enabling works, including shoring, dewatering, waterproofing, PT slabs, and façade works.
- Good understanding of ARE roles and responsibilities, construction documentation, inspections, authority requirements, and handover procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to review, assess, and monitor works across multiple technical disciplines.
- UAE/GCC project experience and relevant professional certifications will be an advantage.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong managerial, leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and multiple activities concurrently.
- Familiarity with BIM processes and construction coordination.
- Detail-oriented and organized approach to work.
Additional Information
- Role is site based.