Senior Project Engineer- Mechanical _Jubail (Short Term)

About This Role

Job Description A project-focused role responsible for leading and coordinating multi‑stakeholder teams to deliver repair and improvement works safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards. The role covers end‑to‑end implementation—from defining scope, managing contractors, risks, costs, and schedules, to monitoring execution, ensuring compliance with technical standards, and reporting progress. Acts as the primary interface between Project Company, O&M, vendors, and experts, translating complex operational issues into clear scopes of work, tracking actions through to completion, and ensuring effective communication, documentation, and decision‑making throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Communication. Motivating members, and acting as the primary liaison between Project Company, O&M Company, Experts and Vendors.
• Implementation of repair works. From definition of needs, to writing RFQs, selection of contractors and follow-up of site works.
• Monitoring & Reporting. Tracking performance against plans and producing regular status reports for stakeholders.
• Planning & Scheduling. Defining project scope, KPIs and deliverables, and creating schedules and timelines, leveraging MS Project or similar.
• Review As-built drawings, P&IDs, OEM specification to ensure compliance with industry and project good practice and standards. Acts as the key interface between Project Co, O&M, vendors teams and project/expert teams.
• Risk & Issue Mitigation. Identifying potential risks and implementing Action Plan, Action Tracker, creating strategies to overcome obstacles and prevent delays.
• Contract & Budget Management: Liaises with the Project Co finance team, manages costs, and oversee subcontractors / contractor performance, acts as the Project Co Representative.
• Quality Control. Ensuring deliverables meet the required standards and specifications.
• Ability to document observations and consolidate findings for the expertise team. E.g. gather the operational leak history from the plant and report it in a structured way
• Translate complex operational problems into an understandable scope of work, which can be submitted to external suppliers and stakeholders.
• Ensures issues are captured, recommendations are implemented, and execution is tracked through to completion. Identify delays early, highlight risks, and escalate bottlenecks when required.
• Organize and facilitate regular progress meetings and follow-up on decisions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on and proactive attitude. Able to spend time on site gathering information and validating data directly with operators. The willingness to be available after regular business hours, when necessary.
• Data analysis. Able to compile, structure, and interpret operational data to support the development of an Experience in plant performance monitoring (not necessary desalination plant)
• Strong operational background, with a good understanding of plant processes and performance drivers (not Reporting. Able to communicate in a clear, precise and effective manner

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