Project Engineer

Role overview

Project delivery responsibilities

• Manage projects from pre-start planning through installation, testing, handover, and transition to Service; review contracts, specifications, drawings, and technical submissions.
• Conduct site surveys and readiness inspections covering shaft dimensions, access, power, storage, lifting arrangements, and building-system interfaces.
• Develop schedules for approvals, deliveries, logistics, installation, testing, and handover; coordinate materials with factories, supply chain, logistics providers, and site teams.
• Plan and manage subcontractors, installation teams, tools, materials, and specialist resources.
• Lead safe site execution through risk assessments, toolbox talks, field inspections, and corrective actions; monitor progress and implement recovery plans for risks or delays.
• Coordinate customers, consultants, contractors, and other trades to resolve technical, access, sequencing, and readiness issues.
• Maintain records of instructions, approvals, delays, access constraints, and changes; identify scope deviations and support variation orders and commercial claims.
• Monitor costs, labor efficiency, billing, collections, forecasts, and financial performance; initiate purchase requests for project resources.
• Conduct stage-wise quality inspections and close nonconformities and outstanding work before testing and handover.
• Plan testing, commissioning, regulatory inspections, and final handover; prepare progress reports, customer updates, risk reviews, and forecasts.
• Build customer relationships through clear communication, timely escalation, and reliable delivery.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electromechanical, Mechatronics, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• At least 6 years of elevator and escalator industry project execution experience, including new equipment installation.
• Experience independently managing a high-volume project portfolio across different execution stages.
• Strong knowledge of elevator installation, technical drawings, site requirements, mechanical and electrical interfaces, testing, quality control, and field safety.
• Commercial and contractual experience covering cost control, forecasting, variations, claims, subcontractors, billing, and collections.

Skills and other requirements

• Strong planning, problem-solving, customer-management, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and project scheduling tools; Microsoft Project or Primavera experience is preferred.
• Strong written and spoken English, including professional reports and contractual correspondence.
• Willingness to travel regularly between project sites in Dubai and elsewhere in the UAE when required.
• A valid UAE driving license is preferred.

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