Key tasks of the job include:
• managing parts of construction projects
• overseeing civil, structural & ID works
• undertaking surveys
• setting out sites and organizing facilities
• checking technical designs and drawings to ensure that they are followed correctly
• supervising contracted staff
• ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales
• liaising with clients/consultants, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager
• providing technical advice and solving problems on site
• preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork
• liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials
• ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to
Site engineers work out on a construction site in all weathers and tend to work on one project at a time. Depending on the location of the project, they might need to relocate or complete a lengthy commute.
Key skills for site engineers
• Commercial awareness – an understanding of how your actions can affect profitability of a project
• Team working and communication
• Technical skills
• An eye for detail
• Problem solving
• Management skills.
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Due to highly progressing economies of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, there present a big potential for the talented people. Taking in view this fact, it is wise thinking to plan the career in these countries because in very short time these states could be the hottest spot for the corporate activities of the world.