Chief Resident Engineer

Surbana Jurong; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Surbana Jurong / SMEC is seeking a highly experienced Chief Resident Engineer to lead a large site team overseeing three contract packages. The role involves on-site liaison with the client and contractors, ensuring safety, quality, and environmental compliance while managing contract administration and documentation.

Cross-functional coordination with design and construction teams is essential to address risks and drive project delivery to time and budget targets.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large site teams (90+ personnel).

Responsibilities

• Lead a site-based team of 90+ personnel to manage three contract packages (Civil, Electrical & Mechanical & Resettlement).
• Coordinate on-site with the Client and Contractors to ensure contract compliance.
• Provide safety and environmental compliance leadership on site.
• Maintain robust site supervision and contract management processes.
• Ensure submittals and RFIs from contractors are dealt with timely; coordinate with Design Office as needed.
• Manage documentation, risk, and project records; oversee commissioning and taking-over activities.

Skills

Team leadership

Site supervision

Stakeholder liaison

Risk management

Job description

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Project Manager
Direct Reports: Deputy CRE, Senior Civil Resident Engineer (Dams & Spillway), Senior Resident Geologist, Senior Civil resident Engineer (Powerhouse & Structures), Senior Civil Resident Engineer (Infra & Roads), Senior Civil Resident Engineer (Resettlement), Senior Mechanical Resident Engineer, Senior Electrical Resident Engineer, Senior Resident Engineer (Regulatory), Resident Engineer (QA/QC), Resident Contract Engineer, Resident Scheduler, Senior Commissioning Resident Engineer, Senior Surveyor and Administration staff.

Chief Resident Engineer Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading a site-based team numbering over 90 who supervise the three contract packages (Civil, Electrical & Mechanical & Resettlement) to ensure the contracts are complied with.


• On-site liaison and coordination with the Client and the Contractors.


• Provides safety and environmental compliance leadership, to ensure these activities have the focus they need.


• Ensure that there are robust arrangements to carry out the site supervision and contract management functions on site, including:
  
  
  
  • Ensure there are robust processes in place to manage staff availability and rosters, with appropriate staff available to manage the contractors’ compliance with their contracts.
  
  
  • Ensure contact management staff process routine progress claims.
  
  
  • When issues arise that have the potential to cause variation and/or Extension of Time claims, that these are addressed pro-actively to safeguard the interests of the client.
  
  
  • Ensure submittals and requests for information from the contractors are dealt with in an appropriate and timely manner. Seek additional specialist input from the Design Office in KL as required.
  
  
  • Ensure there is a robust process for managing and storing site documentation.
  
  
  • Work with the Contractors on rectification plans if the work falls behind schedule or over-budget or has significant compliance issues (quality, safety & environmental).
  
  
  • Manage the commissioning process and issuing of taking over certificates.
  
  
  • Manage regular communication processes with the contractors and the client, via letters, meetings and minutes, and specific project documentation such as progress reports, inspection reports and reports on specific issues.
  
  
  • Ensures that project completion activities are completed, such as compiling construction records, commissioning reports, construction reports, as-built drawings, O&M Manuals and handing these over to the client.
  
  
  • Ensure that the QA system is active and functioning.
  
  
  • Provide input into regular updates of risk management plans and assist with addressing risk-related queries from the client and insurers.
  
  
  • Ensure that legal requirements and project approval conditions are complied with.
  
  
  • Where the CRE becomes aware of issues arising in the local community, these are to be referred to the client’s Site Manager for resolution.
  
  


• Exercise powers and authorities that have been delegated by the Engineer under FIDIC. (The Engineer role is fulfilled by the Project Manager)


• Actively responds to new risks that emerge, such as unexpected geological conditions, extreme weather, transport interruptions, local stakeholder unrest, working with the client and contractors to minimise the impact of these emergent risks.


• Manages performance of direct reports via 6 monthly performance appraisals and ensures that Direct Reports manage their staff performance.


• Approves internal administration documents such as expenses claims, leave applications etc.

Company Culture

At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!

About SMEC

SMEC is a global engineering, management and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions for our clients and partners. Leveraging our 70-year history of delivering nation-building infrastructure, we provide technical expertise and advanced engineering services to resolve complex challenges across major infrastructure and energy projects. SMEC has a long and proud history which dates back to Australia’s iconic Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in 1949, one of the largest and most complex hydroelectric schemes in the world. Headquartered in Australia, we have offices across more than 35 countries in Oceania, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Americas. Together with our clients and partners, we deliver projects that directly contribute to improving health, quality of life and development outcomes for communities and neighborhoods around the world. Driven by innovation, ingenuity and skill, our people have shaped these outcomes in some of the world’s most remote and challenging environments. Since 2016, SMEC has been a member of the Surbana Jurong Group, an Asia-based global powerhouse of over 16,000 employees. Through our network of global specialists and by collaborating with local partners, we connect clients with the best teams and capabilities to deliver sustainable solutions.