DREDGING SUPERINTENDENT

NMDC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

NMDC in Abu Dhabi seeks a Dredging Works Lead to manage daily dredging activities, coordinate planning, and ensure execution per the project plan. You will provide weekly reports on milestones, budget, and progress, delegating tasks to dredge supervisors and monitoring subcontractors.

Strong data interpretation and autonomous decision-making are essential. The role requires 5 years of dredging experience, an engineering Master's degree, and PMP is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Engineering Master’s or equivalent
• 5 years of dredging project experience in a relevant role
• In-depth understanding of dredging processes and equipment
• Ability to transform raw data (CSV/logs) into readable formats and draw conclusions
• Proven leadership and ability to guide a project team
• Ability to work autonomously and propose improvements

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day dredging activities on a project
• Provide input for detailed project planning
• Ensure dredging activities follow the project plan
• Provide weekly progress, budget, and planning reports to Works Manager
• Delegate tasks to dredge supervisors, monitor reports, and identify efficiency improvements
• Monitor subcontractor activities and ensure safe, compliant operations
• Coordinate with project team and stakeholders for data transfer
• Plan staffing for dredging activities and ensure cross-department collaboration
• Execute daily activities and ensure on-site safety and reporting
• Prepare and compile final project operation report on performance and costs

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Data interpretation

Planning

Communication skills

Problem solving

Autonomous working

Risk assessment

Education

Engineering Master

Tools

PMP Certification

Job description

• Manage and be responsible for day to day dredging activities on a project
• Provide the Dredging Works manager with input for the development of the detailed project plan
• Ensure that dredging activities are executed as per project plan
• Provide weekly report to the Works Manager on milestones, work/ done, progress, budget, issues and planning
• Delegate specific responsibilities to dredge supervisor and Sr. dredge masters(s) and analyze their daily reports. Assess performance and suggest efficiency improvement activities. Identify risks and appropriate mitigations; elevate if necessary to Works
• Monitor, evaluate and control activities of subcontractors
• Ensure cooperation between project team members and a smooth data/ information transfer to internal and if applicable, external stakeholders
• Coordinate and plan optimal staffing for dredging related activities
• Cooperate constructively, efficiently and effectively with Technical-, QA/HSE-, Estimation & Operational Advisory departments

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that risks and impacts are properly communicated to all supervisors and workers, and that work is carried out safely on a daily basis
• Making sure that the project activities comply with HSE regulations and requirements
• Carrying out inspections, reporting nonconformities and ensuring that these are followed up
• Ensuring that all employees understand the HSE regulations
• Ensuring that accidents, near-misses and hazardous situations are reported and corrective actions are implemented on site
• Proposing measures to prevent risks for personnel
• Responsibilities towards emergency response are defined in the Emergency Response Plan
• Follow the daily, weekly Operational planning
• Plan upcoming activities (weekly) with WM & SDM
• Actively involved in the Mobilization/Demobilization
• Execution daily activities
• Daily reporting items towards Project Management.
• ensure that the ship and all auxiliary equipment under his supervision is checked, that it is in good condition, and that defects are reported
• Check that all hired plant equipment is safe and where appropriate periodic tests and inspections reports are available
• Ensure that work under his control is carried out safely and without risk to health
• Establish chapters of the final report of the Project-operations pertaining to performance, production, soil data and other price influencing elements
• The Progress of the Works, own works and subcontractor's work
• Takes control of the dredging process on daily base, checks productions and determines how to improve the productions in accordance with site constraints
  

Qualifications:

• Engineering Master / bachelor's degree or an equivalent professional qualification
• 5 years of experience on dredging projects in relevant role
• PMP certification will be an asset
• In depth understanding of dredging processes/use of dredging equipment/ land reclamation/ pipelines, cutter types, pick points etc
• Ability to transform raw data (CSV-files, loggings) into readable format and ability to interpret this format and come to relevant conclusion based on the converted raw date
• Implement dredging methodologies
• Analytic capability
• Leadership capabilities
• Ability interacts with crew, SDM
• Ability to take responsibility and suggest decision based on the knows and unknowns
• Ability to link survey-results (calculation, heights, benchmarks, charts, tolerances, etc.) to contractual implications
• Ability to work autonomous
• Having a problem-solving mind and able to spread this attitude amongst his project team