Handover & Commissioning Manager

Faithful+Gould are looking for a Handover & Commissioning Manager in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide Hand Over and Commissioning Management through the transition of the Project/Asset from Construction to Facility Management, including supporting Commercial Team on Technical Matters and DE snagging and punch list rectification.

• Be able to articulate and communicate the role and requirements to all project stakeholders including the commercial teams and tenants

• Ability to know and understand scopes, discipline and trades and be able to actively seek out the challenges impacting the various trades and coordinate with trades at ground level while also communicating and managing up through contractors, authorities, consultants, PMC’s and the clients design, delivery, procurement and commercial teams.

Essential experience:

• Construction experience with a specific technical qualification architecture or civils works in buildings and infra projects, with Building Services as added advantage.

• Must be able to demonstrate ability to understand and know MEP systems and their relevant importance in the Testing, Commissioning and Handing over stages of the project and have managed that process on projects of AED 500M and up.

• Must hold a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related discipline.

• Minimum 15 years of post qualification experience.

• Arabic speaker is preferred.

• Abu Dhabi experience is mandatory.

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering contractors, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.

Rewards & Benefits

We offer an excellent package which includes:

• A competitive salary

• Transportation allowance

• Medical and life insurance cover

• 22 calendar days annual leave

• Medical and life insurance cover

• Company gratuity scheme

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Annual flight allowance to point of origin

• Employee Assistance Programme – 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants