Qatar, Qatar
Fulltime: 60 hrs a week
Experience: 5 years
Closing: February 21, 2025

Introduction

  • Provide front line safety and technical leadership.
  • Ensuring safe effective and efficient execution of Lifting and Rigging (Additional Scaffolding qualification advantageous) activities in accordance with the project schedule and compliance to safety, quality and technical policies procedures and standards.
  • Providing technical support to all company functional teams within an assigned construction division and geographical area.
  • Provide technical guidance to assure Contractor compliance during planning and execution of routine / non routine, critical, and heavy lift operations and scaffolding operations.
  • Interfaces with other project and construction area teams removing progress constraints, sharing lessons learned and executing corrective actions.
  • Lead and promote a one team approach to attain Company objectives.
  • Work in a highly visible project environment managing safe schedule delivery within lump sum contractual framework.
  • Managing leading and communication with multi-cultural teams with diverse cultures and behaviors.
  • Manage large area-based construction scope ensuring effective management of contractor including external and internal interfaces.
  • Multiple technical and non-technical interface requiring working with a large Contractor, organized as a Joint Venture requiring close coordination and interaction.
  • Lead direct and influence contractor in all issues related to construction activities to assure delivery of the project milestones to achieve schedule.
  • Achieve a smooth and flawless construction execution to Mechanical completion

What are you going to do 

  • Demonstrating visible safety leadership and care for people
  • Act as the Company focal point for lifting (and scaffolding) matters including approval of related documents submitted by Contractor.
  • Ensures all activities are undertaken in compliance with Company and contractually defined policies, regulations, and standards.
  • Apply contractual awareness protecting the Company position when engaging with Contractors on schedule, technical and cost issues.
  • Provide technical support for the selection of Contractor safety critical lifting (and scaffolding) operatives.
  • Ensuring contractors ongoing competency processes and procedures are compliant to Company requirements and Qatar government regulations.
  • Review and recommend improvements to ways of working, procedures and plans ensuring effective and smooth project execution.
  • Participate in constructability and construction readiness reviews identifying improvement opportunities with contractor team.
  • Establish and maintain relationships, communications with contractor and company functional teams (safety, quality, engineering, business).
  • Attend activity planning and risk assessment meetings, assist contractor in identifying schedule mitigations
  • Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming safety standards are maintained,
  • Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming efficiency of the work and compliance with the planned daily activities and overall construction schedule.
  • Perform surveillance inspection and audits on the Contractors lifting (and Scaffolding) equipment and verifies its condition and validity.
  • Review, approve and audit as required Contractors lifting (and scaffolding) plans, procedures, method statement, PTW and task instructions.
  • Attends onsite safety meetings and toolbox talks to ensure there is a clear understanding of the activities that are to be performed.
  • Review of contractors daily weekly and monthly reports analyzing performance and verifying progress and status.
  • Develops and issues CPY daily and weekly reports as directed by Line Manager

Essential skills and knowledge 

  • Bachelor of Engineering in relevant discipline and/or recognized industry trade qualifications (e.g., NVQ/City &Guilds, CITB/CISRS LOLER etc.).
  • Valid certifications issued by Internationally Recognized bodies
  • More than (10) years proven experience within Client organization.
  • Minimum of 15 years supervisory experience in lifting operations, lifting preparation (lift plans), lifting supervision, lifting equipment inspection and scaffolding.
  • Demonstrate extensive experience in lifting & rigging especially in critical & heavy lifts in onshore Greenfield environment.
  • Demonstrates sound written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills
  • Ability to read and translate approved for construction drawings.
  • Ability to prepare, approve and /or verify lifting (and scaffolding) plans.
  • Ability to work within document control systems reviewing, consolidating, and approving technical and project documents.
  • IT literacy: Word, Excel, PDF, skills to support reporting, reviewing and communication requirements.
  • Ability to read and translate primavera schedules.

What we offer 

  • Salary:
    • Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
  • Work Schedule:
    • 10 Hours / 6 Days
  • Duration:
    • 2028 with possible extension
  • Location:
    • Qatar