Engineering Director

About the role

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Architectural, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. A master's in engineering management or an MBA is an advantage.
• At least 15 years' experience, including at least 5 years leading a multi-discipline engineering team in a consultancy in Saudi Arabia, covering design and construction supervision.
• Industrial and logistics facilities (factories, warehouses, cold stores, depots) and commercial buildings.
• Saudi Building Code and authority approval routes.
• Project control in an ERP system. Odoo is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Leads all of SMC's technical work: design, construction supervision and project management. Answers to the CEO for its quality, its delivery on time, and each project's hours against its fee. He is the single technical authority in the office, so that the CEO deals with clients, commercial terms and strategy instead of technical review.
• 1. Leads the engineering department: the Directors of all disciplines, the project managers and resident engineers, the BD and Projects Coordination Manager, document control and the surveyor, with the engineers and inspectors under them.
• 2. Gives every project a project manager and discipline leads, and balances the workload across projects.
• 3. Owns technical quality. No drawing, report, BOQ or specification goes to a client without a discipline check, a cross-discipline coordination check and release by him or his named delegate, with the record kept.
• 4. Keeps every project on a program and a deliverables list in Odoo, reviews progress weekly, and presents delivery status at the weekly projects review.
• 5. Sets an hours budget for each project from its fee, tracks hours from Odoo timesheets, and acts before a project slips or runs over.
• 6. Sets the technical approach, scope, team and hours estimate for every proposal, and reviews each technical proposal before it goes to the CEO for pricing and signature.
• 7. Acts as the senior technical contact for clients and authorities: attends key design reviews and progress meetings, settles technical disputes, and takes commercial issues to the CEO.
• 8. Spots scope changes early and prepares the technical case for variations and time extensions, for the CEO's decision.
• 9. Tells accounting in writing when each milestone is delivered and when the client accepts it.
• 10. Leads authority approvals on design projects.
• 11. Writes and maintains the engineering SOPs, design checklists and standard templates.
• 12. Raises hiring requests, interviews, evaluates probation, runs staff reviews, and makes sure every engineer's SCE accreditation is valid at the grade his job needs.

Skills

• ERP project control
• Odoo
• multidisciplinary engineering management
• design and construction supervision
• engineering standards governance
• design review coordination
• stakeholder management
• proposal scoping and estimation
• hours budgeting and tracking
• change management and variation handling
• staff hiring and performance evaluation
• SCE accreditation