# Resident Engineer - Electrical

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Abu Dhabi
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Resident Engineer - Electrical, you will oversee the design, construction, testing, commissioning, and close-out of electrical works within the assigned project scope.

You will ensure compliance with contractual requirements, OpCo specifications, applicable international standards, approved project plans, quality requirements, and HSE obligations while coordinating with the OpCo Project Manager, Principal Resident Engineer, contractors, and other project stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain familiarity with the overall contractual arrangements and requirements applicable to electrical works.

- Maintain a visible site presence and actively participate in planned HSE walkthroughs, inspections, safety interventions, and audits.

- Implement the Consultant's HSE supervision plan for electrical works and directly supervise the Contractor's implementation of relevant HSE plan elements.

- Promote proactive HSE reporting and empower personnel to raise concerns regarding unsafe acts and conditions.

- During design, ensure adherence to OpCo specifications and applicable international standards to achieve inherently safe and reliable facilities.

- Deliver the electrical scope in accordance with the approved project plan and critical path, considering QA/QC and HSE plans, project interfaces, and external impacts on performance.

- Ensure electrical works, deliverables, and documentation,including commissioning procedures, risk assessments, and method statements,comply with OpCo HSE requirements and applicable specifications.

- Ensure design variations and execution changes are processed through the applicable Management of Change procedures.

- Actively supervise site activities for compliance with approved risk assessments, method statements, permit-to-work practices, and safe work requirements.

- Coordinate with the Planning Engineer to allow adequate time and planning for critical and high-risk electrical activities.

- Review project plans and the erection, testing, and commissioning arrangements for electrical equipment, and address technical or programme issues.

- Verify that completed activities are certified in the required Quality Control records with complete supporting attachments, in consultation with the QA/QC Engineer.

- Advise the Principal Resident Engineer of necessary works that may fall outside the contractual scope or design basis.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree (BE or BSc) in Electrical Engineering, certified by the Ministry of Higher Education.

- Minimum seven years of relevant experience, preferably including consultancy experience in a similar scope of work.

- HSE certification such as IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent, subject to OpCo discretion.

- Relevant training in project management tools and methodologies, such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Primavera.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- HSE
- Project Management
- QA/QC

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