Lead Engineer - Design (Mechanical)

Building the Future - One Project at a Time!

At El Seif, we embrace and embody our core values of excellence, integrity, and innovation in every aspect of our work from meticulous planning to expert construction, we consistently uphold the highest standards of excellence, ensuring that our projects are delivered with precision and attention to detail. With half a century of diverse experiences across a wide range of industries, ranging from public infrastructure to military and defense applications, we have honed our expertise and gained indispensable insights that enable us to tackle complex challenges and maintain our standard of delivering exceptional results. Our forward-thinking approach sets us apart as a trusted partner in the construction industry. By continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation, we strive to pioneer the future of construction, creating sustainable and impactful solutions that leave a lasting legacy.

Excellence, Integrity and, Innovation - every step of the way.

To lead the discipline Team fulfilling a senior role within the Engineering Department, providing personnel and technical leadership and mentoring to team focused on the engineering delivery.

Responsible for the development and implementation of the highest levels of Technical Delivery of all disciplines Engineering production in line with Client Design Principles to ensure the delivery of quality.

Each discipline Lead has to liaise with other discipline leads to maintain a holistic overview of the delivery of engineering deliverables to meet the time, quality and budgetary targets, whilst meeting or exceeding clients’ expectations.  An essential component will be to monitor and maintain resources requires for all current and future projects through securing resources from the resource pool as necessary,

This person will also make positive contributions to assisting with marketing of our services through, bid and proposal preparation, and general promotional activities

• Support in the development of employees across the function to support corporate objectives, targets and the knowledge dissemination culture to ensure optimal building of internal capabilities and maximize their performance
• Conduct affairs with the highest standards of respect, integrity, accountability, agility, quality, safety and corporate governance
• Ensure compliance with Code of Ethics policy and adopting company values 
• Adopt and utilize BIM and ERP in the function
• Ensure for all projects at the commencement of each stage that full briefing documentation has been received and reviewed for completeness and handovers have been conducted before our teams commence with the project
• Provide technical leadership and support to engineering teams undertaking all packages of engineering analysis and design to required quality and industry best practice including the preparation of design documents including calculation packages, reports, presentations and specifications.
• Support project leads in the leadership of technical interfaces and coordination of design within the discipline and multidisciplinary technical interfaces across disciplines at a project level with the teams.
• Responsible for ensuring technical quality is consistency achieved through regular monitoring and review of work by others or under their supervision including reviewing design work carried out by members of the team in line with project specific requirements 
• Critical evaluate, review, assess and provide recommendations for improvements to all aspects of the technical Engineering/design processes required for offshore working and provide potential mitigation strategies and improvements.to drive continuous improvement processes.
• Lead in the support, guidance and mentoring to all members of the team to develop there competencies.
• Ensure that interface with BIM team lead to coordinate resource requirements for all projects
• Develop and maintain relationships built in trust within the discipline, across the ESEC teams. 
• Overview of all work stage budgets for all projects resulting from detailed monitoring and reforecasting of resource demands to delivery work packages within allocated budgets and programme and provide mitigation strategies to address potential issues with budgets

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering. or  Advanced engineering 
• Proficient in spoken and written English and Arabic.
• Extensive experience in a leadership role in projects engineering 
• Strong knowledge of Engineering, design and operation.
• Working knowledge of relevant design software including 
• Design/Detailing Software
• Proven experience in the development of design concepts and schemes for various building typologies and forms.
• Experience in collaborative working and coordination within the team, internal ESEC disciplines and external consultants and clients
• Confidence to work within multi-disciplinary design environments.
• Proven track record in leading teams of people.
• Technical knowledge and experience of international and local design codes/standards and Statutory Regulations.
• Excellent planning, time management and communication skills, listening, comprehension, and feedback.
• Excellent in English communication skills.

Additional Info:

This is a Full-time job offering standard benefits such as paid annual leave, public holidays, living allowances, healthcare coverage, and end of service benefits. We also offer discretionary benefits such as a performance bonus and merit increase along with training and development opportunities if eligible.