Requisition ID: 274038 

•  Relocation Authorized: International – Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Jubail 

Position Summary

Jubail is one of Bechtel’s most remarkable achievements—a city built from the sand up, requiring vast resources and logistical planning on an unprecedented scale. It the biggest civil engineering project in modern times—and it’s getting bigger. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, since it began in the mid-1970s. Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company (SABCO) serves as the Management Services Contractor (MSC), or “owner’s representative” for our client, the Royal Commission (RC). We are the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) managers, managing design submissions from local AE firms, and overseeing the actual construction work being performed by local contractors and sub-contractors in Jubail and Ras-Al-Khair Industrial Cities. In June 2021, Bechtel’s contract with the Royal Commission was renewed for another 5 years with work focusing on building new residential communities, iconic buildings/ bridges, major site preparation, commercial buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals, sports facilities, clinics, universities, utility services and infrastructure (electrical sub-stations, lift stations), roads and highways, port & pipeline expansions, and more. 

Major Responsibilities

• The Senior Structural Engineer is a key member of the Royal Commission-Bechtel’s Engineering Department, Structural Group, Technical Support Core Team.
• Developing plans and schedules and conducting and coordinating each phase of structural engineering designs for building, transportation, and infrastructure structures, such as low- to mid-rise residential, institutional, educational, religious, commercial, and industrial structures, bridges, and infrastructure structures.
• Reviewing structural engineering designs for building, transportation, and infrastructure structures, such as low- to mid-rise residential, institutional, educational, religious, commercial, and industrial structures, bridges, and infrastructure structures, prepared by the client’s design professional consultants.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills:

Essential Technical: 

• BS in Civil / structural Engineering from an accredited college or university.
• 10 or more years of direct structural engineering design and analysis experience on building, transportation, and infrastructure projects, such as post-tensioned concrete bridge structures and buildings and infrastructure framed with cast-in-place and precast-prestressed concrete, structural steel, and reinforced masonry.
• Experience in developing plans and schedules and conducting and coordinating each phase of structural engineering designs for building, transportation, and infrastructure structures, such as low- to mid-rise residential, institutional, educational, religious, commercial, and industrial structures, bridges, and infrastructure structures.

Essential Behavioral:

• Possesses excellent written and oral English communication, interpersonal, mentoring, and knowledge transfer skills.
• Supports the creation of a work environment that fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction.
• Has the ability to work within a culturally diverse organization, recognizing and respecting differences.

Additional Qualifications:

Preferred Technical:

• Maintains a Registration or Charter as a Professional Structural Engineer (i.e., Registered Structural Engineer, MIStructE, or similar).
• Possesses a working knowledge of BIM processes, including experience designing projects in BIM platforms, particularly Revit.
• Experience in the reviews of structural engineering designs for building, transportation, and infrastructure structures, such as low- to mid-rise residential, institutional, educational, religious, commercial, and industrial structures, bridges, and infrastructure structures, prepared by the client’s design professional consultants.
• Experience performing Value Engineering, Constructability Reviews, Safety Reviews, and O&M Reviews.
• Experience reviewing, updating, and preparing Structural Specifications, Design Manuals, Design Criteria, and Drawing Standards.
• Experience preparing structural/forensic engineering investigations, studies, and reports.
• Possesses working knowledge and production ability with computer-aided drafting software, such as AutoCAD and Revit.
• Ensures consistency and uniformity of structural engineering across the various projects.
• Possesses a working knowledge of Mathcad, MATLAB, or similar.
• Holds expertise with the use and thorough knowledge of International Design Codes/Standards/Specifications, particularly ACI, AISC, ASCE, PCI, AASHTO, and PTI or their British equivalents.
• Holds expertise with current computer-aided structural engineering and design software, such as STAAD.Pro, STAAD.Foundation Advanced, ETABS, SAFE, and SAP2000.
• Experience coordinating structural engineering to civil and geotechnical engineering, other engineering disciplines, and architecture.
• Experience providing technical support to Construction Department and disposition of queries and review of submittals.

Preferred Behavioral:

• Has the ability to manage priorities and accept evolving responsibilities.
• Demonstrated ability to make critical decisions quickly.
• Ability to develop, guide, train, and transfer knowledge to Saudi National structural engineers.

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