Site Manager

Schneider Electric; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in energy management is looking for a Site Manager to oversee construction sites in Dubai. You will be responsible for compliance with safety, quality, and technical regulations, while ensuring smooth operations aligned with budget and timelines. The role also includes project preparation, site management, and interface with project managers to report on progress. Candidates should have at least 10 years of supervisory experience and a background in electrical engineering.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Career development opportunities

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years as a Site Supervisor / Commissioning Supervisor.
• Fluent in English (C1), other languages are a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of Medium and Low voltage equipment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the construction of one or more sites ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Organize the site and budget in line with project objectives.
• Prepare and monitor project schedules and manage site risk.

Skills

Flexibility

Reliability

Technical detail focus

Customer focus

Team player

Clear communication

Education

Baccalaureate + 2 years of Electrical Engineering studies

Tools

MS Office

AutoCAD

Testing device software (Omicron)

Job description

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Schneider Electric is looking for a Site Manager responsible for managing the construction of one or more sites. This role involves setting up and monitoring the overall organization of the sites in conjunction with Site Supervisors. The Site Manager must comply with all safety, quality, and technical regulations and standards in force, ensuring that works progress smoothly in alignment with costs, deadlines, and resources. Additionally, the Site Manager will report regularly to the Head of Regional Site Teams and functionally to the Operation Manager of the GCP Ops Site Works department. Responsibilities also include site record management and providing feedback at site closure.

Responsibilities:

1. Schedule drafting and monitoring supervision
   • Ensure compliance with the project schedule.
   • Supervise the drafting and monitoring of site schedules in conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, if required.
2. Budget management
   • Validate, with the Project Manager, the objectives, costs, deadlines, resources established when the estimate was prepared and updated when the work begins in the form of an internal contract.
   • Organize the site in compliance with the budget objectives set at the start of the project in conjunction with the Project Manager.
   • Identify opportunities for reducing expenditure.
   • Keep track of any discrepancies in expenditure with respect to the budget in the monthly report and explain them.
   • Keep the NCR monitoring and opportunity & claim folder up to date.
   • Manage the risks inherent in the site (identify them and find all the solutions required to eradicate or avoid them).
3. Project preparation
   • Prepare the project, before work starts on the site, in conjunction with the various departments, the GCP / Ops Operation department and Site Works Coordinator, the Project Manager: Design review, contract kick-off meetings, site staff mobilisation, etc.
   • Prepare the budget quote for the internal contract in conjunction with the site works coordinator.
   • Define the assembly methodologies with the site works coordinator and how they can be adapted to the contractual requirements of the project.
   • Pass this work plan on to the project Site supervisors.
   • Set up the organizational structure and the offices on the site.
4. Project / site management
   • Comply with the site organizational requirements as defined with the Project Manager and the GCP / Ops Operation department.
   • Manage the project in conjunction with the Site supervisor(s) (in accordance with the job specifications, the contractual terms, the Assignment order, the Quality plan, the HSE plan and the operating procedures).
   • Accept and store the equipment and devices on site.
   • Ensure that the site organization and the work execution procedures, tests and commissioning and all the resources used on the site(s) (buildings, containers, machines, vehicles) comply with the current legislation and the local regulations. With respect to HSE issues, He / She relies on the HSE manager on each site.
   • Provide the Site Works Coordinator with technical support, if required.
5. Compliance with Quality of service / supply
   • Set up a site quality plan.
   • Take all the measures required to control the products supplied by the customer and incorporated in the works and operate or ensure the operation and quality of the site(s) in accordance with the project operating procedures, folders and instructions received in order to comply with the Quality Management System. (NCR monitoring, etc.)
   • Understand and qualify the customer's facilities in order to propose improvement works or solutions.
   • Ensure that the monitoring, test and commissioning equipment and devices are maintained, routinely checked, calibrated, transported and delivered to the site.
6. AS BUILT drawings
   • Ensure, in conjunction with the site and test supervisor(s), that all the operators, including the subcontractors, have updated their drawings and that when the site is finished, the site "RED MARKS" documents are sent to the Design Office to enable the final "AS BUILT" documents to be completed.
7. Interface with the Project Manager and reporting
   • In conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, draw up the following documents and send them to the Project Manager and the GCP / Ops Operation department: monthly status report with discrepancy monitoring, monthly progress report, minutes of meetings, statement of damage occurring during transportation and on site, state of the equipment on arrival on site, condition of the final stocks, operating incident records, equipment incident records, non-conformance records, etc.
8. End of projects
   • At the end of the project, in conjunction with the Site Works Coordinator, prepare all the items required for the end-of-project assessment and feedback with the organization responsible for the contract and ensure that the annotated documents and drawings (assembly, tests, etc.) are centralized at the end of the project in order to check that they are valid before sending them to the Project Manager and to the customer, after approval by the Project Manager.
9. Compliance with HSE requirements
   • Ensure that Health and safety requirements are applied at site (Local regulations, SE directives, customer requirements).
   • Ensure that the resources to be allocated on site, the skills, experience, accreditation level according to the nature of the work to be done are adequate.
   • Implement, manage and update site safety plan and risk assessments. Make sure FSRs and Subcontractors under his/her responsibility apply HSE rules.
   • Perform site safety inspections.
   • Conduct periodic safety meetings and manage action plans.
   • Manage safety incidents and take immediate actions.
   • Monitor, document, track and review safety KPIs.
10. Authority
    • According to skills, means, and authority, the site manager has overall responsibility for EHS aspects on sites for which he/she is responsible.
11. Qualifications:
    • Minimum 10 years as a Site Supervisor / Commissioning Supervisor
    • Baccalaureate + 2 years of Electrical Engineering studies
    • Fluent in English (C1). Other languages are a plus.
    • Flexibility & Reliability, focus on technical details & customer focus, team player.
    • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively on technical issues.
    • Proficient with software tools: MS Office (including MS Project), Acrobat, AutoCAD, Outlook, Testing device software (Omicron).
    • Advanced knowledge of Medium and Low voltage equipment, Power stations, and principles, latest technologies, and commissioning test principles.
    • Experience or familiarity with Schneider Equipment for MV (Premset, MCSET, PIX), Protection Relays (SEPAM, Micom, Easergy), UPS APC Symmetra, and LV Distribution panels (Blokset, Okken, Prisma) is an advantage.

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    • $36 billion in global revenue
    • 13% organic growth
    • Over 150,000 employees in 100+ countries
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    You must submit an online application to be considered. This position remains posted until filled. Schneider Electric is committed to diversity and inclusion, providing equitable opportunities for all, and upholding high standards of ethics and compliance through our Trust Charter. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.