Project Engineer

Role Overview

Project Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• **Site Erection & Execution Management:**
• Plan, monitor, and lead day-to-day site erection operations, coordinating crane lifts, site adjustments, and workforce tasks.
• **Progress Tracking & Scheduling:**
• Maintain project timelines, prepare detailed daily/weekly progress reports, and proactively resolve any site delays or logistical bottlenecks.
• **Technical & Drawing Coordination:**
• Review structural blueprints, connection details, and architectural shop drawings.
• Liaise with the drafting team to clarify design queries (RFIs) before fabrication.
• **Material & Logistics Oversight:**
• Coordinate with the fabrication facility to schedule timely structural element deliveries to the site, minimizing storage constraints and ensuring seamless installation workflows.
• **Consultant & Client Relations:**
• Attend regular site progress meetings, handle technical submittals, and witness on-site inspections alongside main contractors and consultants.
• **HSE Compliance:**
• Enforce strict health, safety, and environmental standards on-site, ensuring the installation team works with total safety compliance during heavy lifting and high-altitude bolt/welding execution.

Qualification & Requirements

• **Education:**
• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering.
• **Experience:**
• Minimum 2–4 years of direct experience in project engineering, specifically managing
• structural steel fabrication and site erection projects
• in the UAE or GCC region.
• **Technical Skills:**
• Strong proficiency in reading complex engineering structural drawings; familiarity with modeling software (e.g., Tekla Structures or AutoCAD) is a major advantage.
• **Site Knowledge:**
• Practical understanding of heavy steel lifting operations, connection methodologies (high-strength bolting and site welding), and concrete-to-steel foundation handovers.
• **Driving License:**
• A valid UAE Driving License is highly preferred for visiting active construction sites.
• **Communication:**
• Strong command of English (both written and verbal) to confidently manage site correspondence and consultant communications.