Sr. Engineer - Civil I Al Futtaim Engineering | Faciltites Management (AE)

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Job Requisition ID: 153483

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world’s most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview of the role:

The Civil Engineer will manage all phases of FM Civil construction projects, Civil Fitout / Renovation works including coordinating with Client, Inhouse team, subcontractors, material and equipment, ensuring that specifications are being followed, and work is done as per contract requirements with quality, on schedule and within budget.

What you will do:

Key Accountability 1: FM / Civil Maintenance Service Delivery.

Responsible for:

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<li>Review tender / contract documents to understand the complete scope for project delivery and develops documents for initiation of projects to gain approval from client for job commencement. </li>
<li>Prepares requests for proposal and conducts all necessary meetings, reviews bids, and recommends award of contract to facilitate hiring of vendors, contractors for outsourced scope of work. </li>
<li>Monitors and reports on all phases of construction to ensure that implementation are carried out in accordance with specifications, compliance with appropriate building codes, local authorities and project requirements.</li>
<li>Ensures that projects are within budgets.</li>
<li>Direct and guide Supervisors to their respective assigned duties, that all personnel are present at their assigned areas when they are scheduled to work</li>
<li>Provide technical advice regarding design, construction, or program modifications and structural repairs to industrial and managerial personnel.</li>
</ul>

Key Accountability 2: Customer Service

Responsible for:

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<li style=”text-align:justify”>Contribute to the development of a customer focused service and a positive corporate image, including the maintenance of good working relationship with client, client representatives.</li>
<li style=”text-align:justify”>Achieve and enhance customer satisfaction by meeting and /or exceeding the customer requirements.</li>
</ul>

Key Accountability 3: Financial

Responsible for:

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<li>Ensure Contracts / Projects are executed within the budget.</li>
<li style=”text-align:justify”>Assess and forecast financial performance, including comparison of actuals to budget, and manage activity to deliver agreed financial outcomes.</li>
<li style=”text-align:justify”>Manage in the area of productivity improvement and potential cost saving measures.</li>
</ul>

Responsible for:

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<li>Direct employees in construction and maintenance procedures to ensure effectiveness and efficiency, as well as compliance with all applicable regulations and authorities having jurisdiction.</li>
<li>Develop staff development programs such as skills enhancement trainings and job-related training sessions to ensure competent work output.</li>
<li>Manage and monitors the performance of direct report and provides guidance as and when required.</li>
<li>Assign project work, coach, mentor and provide technical support to the FM team.</li>
</ul>

Responsible for:

<ul>
<li>
Establish and implement “best practices” and focuses on continuous improvement.
</li>
<li>
Evaluate contract management from a technical point of view in order to identify risk factors, ensuring that technical terms comply with the relevant standards for the overall risk assessment and bid decision Managing and prioritizing workload of daily operations
</li>
<li>
Based on Clients budget constraints for any specific project, carrying out value engineering studies.
</li>
</ul>

Job Context:

Define organizational policy and other factors that have a critical impact on the job.

Required Skills to be successful:

Job-Specific Skills:

<ul>
<li>Financial and Job Cost Accounting Knowledge, work with commercial requirements like plan cost, budgets limits, profit and loss</li>
<li>Knowledge of facilities planning and construction management processes and procedures.</li>
<li>Knowledge of estimating, budgeting, and scheduling practices.</li>
<li>Knowledge of current status of costs of new construction, escalation factors, and market trends.</li>
<li>Knowledge of building codes and standards of practice, laws governing construction contracts and contracting.</li>
<li>Knowledge of construction materials and methods.</li>
<li>Skills in reading and interpreting plans and specifications and to compare them with construction progress.</li>
<li>Skills in both verbal and written communications, Strong negotiating skills.</li>
<li>Strong computer skills, emphasis on Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Viewpoint</li>
</ul>

Minimum Qualifications, Certification and Knowledge:

<ul>
<li>B.Sc. Degree in Civil Engineering. </li>
<li>Understanding of local market and knowledge of Public Entities, contractors and vendors.</li>
<li>Understanding of Fidic / Civil contracts. </li>
</ul>

Minimum Experience:

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<li style=”text-align:justify”>10 years’ experience in a related field of which 5 years are in a similar capacity in the Civil Fit out , Renovations Projects .</li>
</ul>

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies 
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions. 
 
The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation. 
 
The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. 
 
These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts. 
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