Job Title: CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR (CIVIL)
Location: Qatar
This opportunity supports the supervision of civil construction and installation activities across oil and gas projects, ensuring work is delivered in line with approved scope, engineering design, and QHSE standards. The role offers broad involvement across site construction, contractor management, permit to work activities, inspection, pre-commissioning, mechanical completion, punch list close-out, and handover. This position will suit professionals with strong construction management capability and experience working within complex project environments.
Required Education:
- B.Sc. in an Engineering discipline from a recognized university, or Diploma in a relevant engineering discipline with extensive construction-related experience
Required Experience:
- Minimum of ten years of experience in relevant construction and installation activities within oil and gas projects
- Experience supervising site construction and installation works for assigned construction or EPIC contracts
- Experience reviewing construction plans, schedules, method statements, JSAs, material submittals, and commissioning procedures
- Experience supporting project completion, handover, inspection, testing, punch list close-out, and construction dossier review
- Experience applying construction industry best practices, systems, processes, and standards
Required Skills:
- Strong construction management capability across detailed design and execution stages
- Ability to supervise contractor activities to ensure compliance with scope of work, engineering standards, specifications, procedures, and regulations
- Knowledge of QHSE standards and safe execution of site construction activities
- Ability to act as performing authority for Permit to Work activities carried out by contractors
- Strong inspection, testing, mechanical completion, and pre-commissioning coordination capability
- Ability to review and endorse red marked-up and as-built drawings
- Effective communication and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to coordinate contractor mobilisation, site laydown areas, permits, and gate passes
- Commitment to safety leadership across all site construction activities
Preferred Qualifications:
- An additional or secondary HSE qualification such as IOSH or NEBOSH
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for supervision of construction works executed by contractors to ensure Department’s assigned projects are constructed in accordance with the approved Scope of Work, engineering design, QHSE standards & specifications. Review and provide comments on construction method statements, material submittals, commissioning procedures from start of construction of projects till completion and handover to end users. Responsible as performing authority for Permit to Work by the Contractors.
- To provide, with full responsibility and accountability, a technical service to Corporation in the Civil Construction activities, detailed design and execution stages to ensure Contractor(s) compliance to established national and international standards/specifications, procedures and regulations.
- Supervise the site construction/installation of work of relevant engineering disciplines of assigned Construction/EPIC contracts and ensure that the work is carried out in safe manner and in compliance with Scope of Work, approved Engineering Standards and Specifications.
- Be a safety leader for all site construction activities.
- Review contractors’ construction plans and schedules including method statements and JSAs.
- Coordinate and control the mobilisation of contractors to sites including site lay down areas.
- Facilitate issuance of necessary permits and Gate passes when requested by Contractors.
- Check, inspect and test completed project work and/or arrange appropriate precommissioning inspections and tests. Initiate Mechanical Completion Certificates.
- Ensure and follow up completion and clearance of all Punch List items.
- Review and endorse red marked up and “as built” drawings.
- Participate in hand-over and acceptance, review commissioning procedures and participate in the commissioning of facilities.
- Review and endorse Construction Dossier for the assigned projects.
- Support Qatari development activities by ensuring that Qatari Nationals receive the proper job training and development.
About Airswift:
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.