Civil Engineer
WSP in the Middle East
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
WSP Middle East is seeking a highly skilled Civil Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing site activities, implementation, ensuring adherence to design specifications, safety standards, and project timelines, collaborating with project managers to develop project plans and schedules, ensuring that milestones are met on time and within budget, and monitoring and reporting project progress to senior management. ensuring adherence to design specifications, safety standards, and project timelines.
Your new role, what's involved?
Project Management:
What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!
As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including first class medical cover, generous days annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.
Apply now and be the future of WSP!
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
WSP Middle East is seeking a highly skilled Civil Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing site activities, implementation, ensuring adherence to design specifications, safety standards, and project timelines, collaborating with project managers to develop project plans and schedules, ensuring that milestones are met on time and within budget, and monitoring and reporting project progress to senior management. ensuring adherence to design specifications, safety standards, and project timelines.
Your new role, what's involved?
Project Management:
- Manage and oversee civil activities and interfacing from inception to completion.
- Ensuring compliance with contract requirements, design specifications, applicable codes and regulatory requirements to ascertain quality and safety.
- Be well versed with the applicable codes, local regulations and industry standards to discharge duties.
- Develop project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensure adherence to timelines and budgetary constraints.
- Coordinate with project stakeholders, including clients, contractors, architects, and regulatory agencies.
- Regularly report on project progress to senior management.
- Closely monitor, guide and regulate the interfacing issues between contractors and providing heads up to avoid re-work.
- Investigate and report any safety incidents or near misses.
- Conducting regular inspections to monitor progress, quality, and safety standards.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to optimize project outcomes and mitigate risks.
- Conduct regular site visits to monitor progress, quality of work, and adherence to safety protocols.
- Address any site-related issues promptly, providing technical guidance and solutions as necessary.
- Ensure compliance with relevant building codes, regulations, and environmental standards.
- Review of site related documentations like method statements, installation drawings, site testing procedures etc.
- Review of decommissioning study, feasibility study and associated risk assessment.
- Review project designs, specifications, and drawings to ensure accuracy and feasibility.
- Provide input during the design phase to optimize construction processes and materials selection.
- Collaborate with design teams to resolve any design-related issues or modifications.
- Implement QA/QC procedures to ensure construction work meets established standards and specifications.
- Conduct inspections and tests to verify the quality of materials and workmanship.
- Document and report any non-conformities or deviations, and work towards timely resolution.
- Work closely with architects, structural engineers, and other professionals to coordinate interdisciplinary aspects of projects.
- Foster a collaborative and positive work environment, encouraging effective communication and teamwork.
- Provide mentorship and support to junior engineers and site staff as needed.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Commitment to safety, quality, and environmental stewardship.
- Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related field. Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 5-10 years of site supervision experience, with a focus on power generation projects.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or eligibility for licensure.
- Proven experience in civil engineering, with a focus on site management and construction.
- Strong knowledge of construction methods, materials, and techniques.
- Proficiency in project management software and AutoCAD or similar design tools.
What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!
As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including first class medical cover, generous days annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.
Apply now and be the future of WSP!
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
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