Sr. Field Mechanical Engineer- PFE, RIC

Bechtel; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel is seeking a Senior Field Mechanical Engineer for the Jubail-Ras Al Khair project in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on ensuring safety and quality standards through review of contractor submittals, work plans, and safety/quality documentation, with direct interface between RC Engineering and Contractors to resolve technical issues.

The position requires coordinating with survey teams, documenting field activities, and conducting regular inspections to verify

Qualifications

• Read and interpret contract documents and construction plans related to site development construction.
• Review Contractors submittals, work method statements, safety plans, quality plans and traffic control plans for compliance with RC requirements.
• Provide daily safety and quality inspections of the Contractors’ physical works related to site development construction. Enforce compliance.
• Review and approve the contractor’s monthly pay invoices.
• Review and monitor the Contractors project schedule for the on-time delivery of the work.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret contract documents and construction plans related to site development construction.
• Review Contractors submittals, work method statements, safety plans, quality plans and traffic control plans for compliance with RC requirements.
• Provide daily safety and quality inspections of the Contractors’ physical works related to site development construction. Enforce compliance.
• Review and approve the contractor’s monthly pay invoices
• Review and monitor the Contractors project schedule for the on-time delivery of the work.

Job description

Requisition ID: 299441

• Relocation Authorized: National/International - Single

• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

• Work Location: Ras Al Khair

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Project Overview:

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 is one of the biggest civil engineering projects 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 architect/engineering (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 2026, 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 and pipeline expansions, and more.

Work Location: Ras Al-Khair. The position is based in Ras Al-Khair, located approximately 100 kilometers north of Jubail Industrial City. Daily commuting between Jubail and Ras Al-Khair is required, using either the available transportation facility or the shuttle bus service. Accommodation for this role is provided in Jubail Industrial City. Complimentary breakfast and lunch are provided for Ras Al-Khair assignees on workdays.

This position is designated as Single Status only

Job Summary:

The Senior Field Mechanical Engineer represents the Royal Commission, (the owner), to ensure the safety and quality standards of the project are met. This work is accomplished by the Field Engineer’s review of the Contractors submittals for materials, work plans, safety plans, quality plans, procurement plans and RFI’s for ongoing work activities. The Sr. FME provides an interface between RC Engineering and the Contractor to resolve technical issues. The Sr. FME assists the Contractor in writing and review of Technical Query’s, coordinates with survey teams to ensure work is constructed in compliance with project drawings and specifications, coordinates with the Contractor to document all mechanical field activities and performs regular inspections to check progress, quality and safety of the projects.

Major Responsibilities:

• Read and interpret contract documents and construction plans related to site development construction.

• Review Contractors submittals, work method statements, safety plans, quality plans and traffic control plans for compliance with RC requirements.

• Provide daily safety and quality inspections of the Contractors physical works related to site development construction. Enforce compliance.

• Review and approve the contractor’s monthly pay invoices

• Review and monitor the Contractors project schedule for the on-time delivery of the work.

Perform the following onsite operations and inspections for Contractors but not limited to

1. Monitoring Quality Control

• Monitoring construction of mechanical activities such as HVAC, pumps and underground utilities to make appropriate value judgements and corrective work to resolved any problems

• Provide guidance and make recommendations solutions for any material failure or site execution problems and product enhancement based on design objectives.

• Provide assistance to the contractors to identify defects, raise non-conformance reports and follow through to identify correction procedures to close out.

• Monitoring in area handover processes and punch list walk downs

• Supports the quality tools (ITP, M.S, QAN/NCR, Lesson Learned, REAL Card, and PBS & PBQ).

• Provide guidance and technical advice to the contractor and field engineers to improve the quality of works

• Installation progress report with in metric dashboard for performance management program.

1. Construction Audit

• Conduct SMQE PFE-QE Quality & ESH audit /walk down for contracts and prepares QAN