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Engineering Manager​ (Saudi Arabia) @ King Abdullah University

Saudi ArabiaOnsiteFull-time
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-weight:400.0;text-align:start;width:477.9pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:477.9pt;border:1.0pt solid teal;background-color:#f3fafa;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Job Purpose</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:51.75pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Engineering Manager will provide engineering services such as technical support, studies, and engineering solutions. Also supervise the activities engaged in project engineering or development services programs and the implementation of the engineering project management work for major capital projects and facility upgrades; and/or supervise staff performing support and maintenance of engineering records or development-related services.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-weight:400.0;text-align:start"> </p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-weight:400.0;text-align:start;width:477.9pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:medium" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:477.9pt;border:1.0pt solid teal;background-color:#f3fafa;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Major Accountabilities</span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:33.75pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Manages the engineering process to develop, the project conceptual scope of work, accurate cost estimates consistent with the scope of work, energy savings estimates based on documented calculations. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Design reviews and providing technical comments on all related discipline for upcoming and ongoing projects.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Providing technical support to the business development, estimating and onsite engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Develop planning and priorities processes to ensure that multi-disciplinary resource is well aligned to maximize delivery of projects </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Report on engineering activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Manages responsibility for developing and implementing the measurement and verification plan for each assigned project, and working with the KAUST Stakeholders to assure the obligations are being met and tracked appropriately </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Coordinate and Manage Third party design consultant for all outsourced engineering and designing related work. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Provides the best possible and optimized solution that will result in the lowest cost for KAUST.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Processing, tracking, and maintaining accurate record of project related documentation in coordination with both internal and outsourced third party consultant team members. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Coordinate with design consultants, project team, and KAUST stakeholders to set up deliverables requirements for engineering works. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#353535">Establish quality and reliability standards by studying industry benchmarks and the requirements of customers and research/design and development, and define the metrics required to assess performance against standards required </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Developing and Enhancing KAUST Engineering standards to deliver safe, value driven, sustainable project.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Apply problem solving skills to resolve technical problems and initiate solution techniques.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Manages, directs and coordinates activities of engineering team to ensure projects progress on schedule. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Remove technical barriers/obstacles that prevent team members from progressive continuous improvement activities. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Complete regular performance reviews, manage attendance, holidays, disciplinary issues and procedures as appropriate.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Develop and manage cost estimations for the required projects</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Participate in the improvement of PDE&amp;C’s Procedures.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Follow’s KAUST’s procedures.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Builds trusting relationships with stakeholders and peers based on transparency, ownership and by placing the customer at the core of all work. </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;background-color:#f3fafa;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;text-align:justify;line-height:18.4px"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:15.333332px;color:black">Person Requirements </span></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;background-color:#f3fafa;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;text-align:justify;line-height:18.4px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:15.333332px;color:black">Competencies</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:70.15pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Extensive knowledge of Engineering Codes and Standards</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Extensive knowledge and familiarity with Engineering and design process</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Demonstrates capabilities and experience in providing Engineering support for universities or similar project. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Must have excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Fluent in written and spoken English.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Customer centric</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Problem solving</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Strong organizational skills</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;background-color:#f3fafa;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:2.0pt 0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;text-align:justify;line-height:18.4px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:15.333332px;color:black">Qualifications</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree in Engineering </span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:16.6pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;background-color:#f2f2f2;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Experience</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt"> <td style="width:477.9pt;border-width:medium 1.0pt 1.0pt;border-style:none solid solid;border-color:currentcolor teal teal;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="margin-top:0.0px;margin-bottom:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 41.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond, serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">6+ years Engineering Design Industry or related field.</span></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p>

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