Assistant Resident Engineer

**Requisition ID**:275032**
- ** Relocation Authorized**:International - Family**:

- ** Telework Type**:Full-Time Office/Project**:

- ** Work Location**:Jubail**

**Company Overview**:
Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy, and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values - ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants - integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

**Position Summary**

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logístical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it's getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more.

**Major Responsibilities**

Supervise all activities relating to one, or several concurrent contracts, as assigned by management. The specific responsibilities of the Assistant Resident Engineer include, but are not limited to, the following:

- As a deputy of the Resident Engineer, serving as primary field contact between the client (Royal Commission) and the Contractor, proactively engaging and leading the Contractor to successfully perform, complete and close out contracts.
- Monitor construction-progress to ensure actual progress meets planned progress and critical milestones. Guide Contractor to adjust its production rates, activity-logics and -durations on an as-needed basis so as to meet schedule.
- Resolve design clarifications and site conditions to facilitate construction progress. This task requires interactions with Engineering & other departments.
- Chair weekly / bi-weekly progress meetings and other meetings as-needed. Generate meeting minutes. Follow up on action-pending items.
- Evaluate Contractor’s schedules (contract baseline, updates and revisions, 4-week rolling-schedules, etc.) and contract-time-extension requests, including obtaining & considering input by Construction Department scheduling engineers.
- Enforce compliance of the contractor’s safety program to achieve zero accidents.
- Supervise field engineers to ensure the Contractor’s quality of works complies with contract design and specifications, applicable codes and Royal Commission standards. Ensure the Contractor adheres to the processes and procedures stated in the approved Quality Control Program.
- Supervise field engineers to properly review technical submittals and shop drawings in a timely manner for compliance with contract requirements. This requires interactions with Engineering and other departments. If necessary, participate in the actual review.
- Coordinate and resolve interfaces between different disciplines within a contract (e.g. between structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, telecom, etc.)
- Supervise field engineers assigned to the contract, ensure compliance with reporting requirements, and prepare their annual performance review.
- Coordinate and resolve interfaces with other Royal Commission departments.
- Review DCN’s, issue DCN’s to Contractor, obtain price quotes, assist the Facility Contracts Supervisor in negotiation of prices and contract time extensions.
- Assist in the preparation of Request-for-Change’s, tacit approvals, Contract Change Orders, etc.
- Ensure Contractor’s compliance with admi