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This Field Engineer role involves providing site coordination services, liaising with safety, security, and area owners to ensure installations meet safety, quality, cost, and timeliness requirements. Responsibilities include directing and monitoring engineering contractors, liaising with operations and maintenance, acting as a Lead or Support Engineer on projects, and providing technical expertise to operations and maintenance managers. The role also involves supporting continuous improvement initiatives and potentially acting as a Lead Engineer on low-complexity projects, managing day-to-day project management within established budgets.
Provide a service to Lead Engineers to take on the site coordination services, liasing with Safety, Security and Area owners to ensure that the resultant installation satisfies the requirements in terms of Safety, Quality, costs and timeliness making him aware of any problem areas immediately they are encountered.Direct, monitor and evaluate the work of engineering contractors to ensure that health, safety, environmental and quality standards are maintained in order to meet or exceed company pol
Requirements
Minimum Experience:
Skills:
Basic Engineering and design skills to be exercised to achieve expected results. The job-holder is expected to develop project management skills as he accumulates experience in the department.
Team leadership and participation, communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to solve problems and think creatively.
Description
Provide a service to Lead Engineers to take on the site coordination services, liasing with Safety, Security and Area owners to ensure that the resultant installation satisfies the requirements in terms of Safety, Quality, costs and timeliness making him aware of any problem areas immediately they are encountered.Direct, monitor and evaluate the work of engineering contractors to ensure that health, safety, environmental and quality standards are maintained in order to meet or exceed company policy requirements in these areas.Liaise with the operations and maintenance personnel in the area of working, ensuring that permits to work and the like are available as required to meet the project requirements.Act as Lead Engineer or Support Engineer on projects, collaborating with other members of the design team to produce project results to meet or exceed stakeholder expectations.Apply accumulated experience to the training and coaching of junior engineers and especially National graduates, to preserve and enhance the department’s knowledge base to the benefit of future projects.Provide technical expertise to operations and maintenance managers to ensure modifications to the plant are performed correctly and effectively.Support the company continuous improvement initiatives to ensure that these are implemented in accordance with sound engineering practices.AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:The job holder may from time to time act as a Lead Engineer, as directed by the HOD assigned projects of a low capital value and/or with a low level of complexity or risk.Day-to day project management is normally assigned to the job-holder (as Lead Engineer) and he becomes responsible for the delivery of the project to meet the defined criteria.The job-holder generally manages projects within an established budget and sequence of activities. He will normally be guided by more senior colleagues in the determination of priorities, solutions and methodologies.DIMENSIONSFinancial: Responsible for the installation element of projects with annual capital expenditure to approx. USD 3 million.As Lead Engineer, assuming total responsibility of projects with a capital expenditure value of up to approx. DHS. 500USD 1m each thousand.Staff:Indirect; Contractors installation teams, up to 100 persons.Direct; As Lead Engineer, up to 3 Support Engineers and Technicians in Project Team(s).Other: Responsible for activities of on-site contracting companies in respect of safety, quality and security performance.