About the Role
We are hiring Junior Site Engineers across the Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil disciplines for a power plant construction project in the UAE. Reporting to the Senior Site Engineer, you will supervise day-to-day construction and installation work in your assigned discipline, coordinate subcontractors and site crews, and verify that work complies with approved drawings, project specifications, and quality and safety requirements.
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Key Responsibilities
- Plan daily activities with site supervisors and subcontractors. Confirm that approved drawings, materials, permits, and work areas are ready before work begins.
- Review construction drawings and method statements, check work against project requirements, and raise technical queries or report discrepancies.
- Coordinate with civil, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation teams to resolve issues where their work overlaps and agree on the sequence of activities.
- Arrange inspections with QA/QC, follow up on corrective actions and punch-list items, and maintain daily progress reports, inspection records, and as-built markups.
- Monitor compliance with site HSE procedures and support testing, pre-commissioning, and handover as applicable to your discipline.
Mechanical Responsibilities
- Supervise installation of mechanical equipment, piping, valves, supports, and associated utility systems.
- Verify equipment positioning, alignment, and piping installation against approved drawings and vendor instructions. Support pressure testing, flushing, and mechanical completion checks as applicable.
Electrical Responsibilities
- Supervise installation of cable trays, conduits, power and control cables, earthing systems, transformers, switchgear, and motor control centers.
- Check cable routing, segregation, glanding, termination, and identification. Coordinate continuity, insulation resistance, and earthing tests as applicable.
Civil Responsibilities
- Supervise earthworks, excavation, backfilling, reinforced concrete works, equipment foundations, cable trenches, and drainage works.
- Verify setting-out, levels, dimensions, reinforcement, formwork, anchor bolts, and embedded items against approved drawings before concrete pours.
- Coordinate compaction tests, pre-pour inspections, and concrete sampling with survey and QA/QC teams. Confirm that foundations, trenches, and openings are ready for mechanical and electrical installation.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Diploma or bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil Engineering, relevant to the position applied for.
- At least 5 years of relevant on-site construction experience in the UAE in the applicable discipline.
- Hands-on experience supervising site works and coordinating crews or subcontractors.
- Ability to interpret discipline-specific drawings, including piping isometrics and equipment layouts for Mechanical, single-line diagrams and cable schedules for Electrical, or grading, foundation, and structural drawings for Civil.
Preferred Qualifications
- Power plant construction experience. Experience on utility, industrial, or EPC construction projects is also desirable.
- Relevant ADDC, DEWA, or TAQA certifications or approvals, where applicable to the discipline and scope of work.
