Civil Engineer

Job Purpose:

The Civil Engineer will supervise and coordinate day-to-day construction activities across the project site. The role will ensure that work is executed safely, to approved drawings and specifications, in line with the project schedule and quality requirements. Working closely with the Project/Construction Manager, discipline engineers, EPC contractors, subcontractors, and site services, the position will manage work-front readiness, resolve site interfaces, monitor progress, and support the safe construction and commissioning of the fertilizer plant, ammonia import facility, pipeline, and on-site plant systems.

Requirements

Core Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise daily site construction activities across assigned work areas, ensuring alignment with approved drawings, method statements, work permits, specifications, and schedules.
• Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, and instrumentation work fronts to ensure efficient sequencing and timely access for all disciplines.
• Review contractor work plans, manpower deployment, equipment availability, material readiness, and look-ahead schedules; identify constraints and drive their resolution.
• Ensure all activities comply with project HSE requirements, approved risk assessments, permit-to-work controls, and site housekeeping standards; stop and escalate unsafe work immediately.
• Lead daily coordination meetings, toolbox talks, and work-front reviews with contractors and project teams, maintaining clear communication across a multicultural workforce.
• Coordinate construction interfaces for critical plant systems, including the ammonia import facility, pipeline, storage, and distribution areas; support constructability reviews, pre-commissioning, and system handover.
• Report site issues, near misses, quality defects, and construction deviations promptly; support investigations and ensure corrective actions are implemented and closed.
• Coordinate site access, lifting operations, scaffolding, temporary works, logistics, and shared-area activities with contractors and relevant project stakeholders.
• Monitor work quality and progress against inspection and test plans, approved procedures, and construction milestones; raise non-conformances and follow up corrective actions.
• Verify that red-line markups, field changes, punch-list items, and as-built information are captured accurately before area or system handover.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, QA/QC, planning, document control, commissioning, and operations teams to resolve technical and construction interfaces.
• Track daily progress, productivity, manpower, equipment utilization, constraints, and recovery actions; provide concise reports to the Construction Manager.
• Maintain a visible field presence, promote disciplined execution, and escalate risks that could affect safety, quality, cost, schedule, or plant operability.

Key Interactions

Internal: Project Director, Construction Manager, Engineering, Project Controls, Procurement, QA/QC, HSE, Commissioning, Operations, Logistics, and Document Control teams

External: EPC contractors and subcontractors, equipment suppliers, construction service providers, inspectors, survey teams, and local authorities as required

Experience Skills / Knowledge / Competencies Performance Measures

• 5+ years of construction supervision experience, including at least 3 years on major industrial, infrastructure, oil and gas, chemical, power, fertilizer, or comparable projects.
• Demonstrated construction supervision experience on greenfield industrial projects with multiple contractors and complex site interfaces.
• At least 2 years of direct site-supervision responsibility for multidisciplinary construction activities within an EPC, owner, or recognized contractor organization.
• Experience supporting construction phase delivery on at least two major industrial projects; exposure to large-scale process plants is preferred.
• Experience with ammonia, fertilizer, chemical, oil and gas, or other process-plant facilities, including complex piping and equipment interfaces, is strongly preferred.

Preferred

• Prior experience on a phosphate fertilizer, sulfuric acid, ammonia, chemical, or comparable industrial-complex project.
• Prior experience working with Chinese EPC contractors on overseas projects is preferred.
• Prior experience in Egypt, MENA, or Sub-Saharan Africa is preferred.
• Track record of coordinating effectively with multicultural, multilingual construction teams and subcontractors.
• Hands-on, visible, and credible site leader with strong practical construction knowledge and a consistent field presence.
• Independent and confident in challenging unsafe, poor-quality, or non-compliant work and driving timely resolution with contractors.
• Calm, decisive, and solutions-focused when managing site constraints, changing priorities, and construction interfaces.
• Culturally agile, with the ability to work effectively across Chinese, European, Indian, Egyptian, and owner stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to safe work execution, quality workmanship, schedule discipline, and the timely escalation of site risks.
• Construction supervision, project management, QA/QC, or relevant trade certification is preferred. • Safe, incident-free execution of assigned work areas and active compliance with project HSE requirements.
• Achievement of daily and weekly work-plan targets, including readiness checks, progress reporting, inspections, and timely closure of corrective actions.
• Full compliance with approved drawings, specifications, method statements, inspection and test plans, permits, and project procedures.
• Successful coordination of construction work fronts from mobilization through pre-commissioning and handover.
• Reduction in rework, construction clashes, quality defects, idle time, and schedule-impacting site constraints.
• Timely reporting, escalation, and closure of site issues, deviations, punch-list items, and corrective actions.
• Strong contractor performance, including adherence to approved schedules, work methods, quality standards, and site rules.
• Effective coordination and workforce engagement demonstrated through regular site reviews, clear communications, and visible leadership.
• Successful completion of inspections, quality records, as-built updates, and handover documentation for assigned areas.
• Achievement of construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning readiness milestones for assigned work areas.

Education Certification / Software Language

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil.
• Additional qualification in Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field is preferred.
• MS Office; AutoCAD and/or 3D model viewers; construction planning, reporting, and document-control platforms
• Construction supervision, HSE awareness, QA/QC, or relevant trade certification preferred
• Working knowledge of construction quality control, inspection and test plans, method statements, and site documentation
• Working knowledge of drawings, specifications, construction sequencing, lifting and temporary works controls, and progress monitoring
• Familiarity with digital reporting, model viewers, red-line markups, and as-built information capture is an advantage
• English
• Arabic; Mandarin is an advantage

Details marked (*) are not mandatory requirements but are preferences