Tanks Supervisor📣 إعلان

About the Role

Bechtel Corporation is seeking a Tanks Supervisor to join our team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires over 10 years of experience in supervising tank construction activities. The successful candidate will monitor and organize subcontractor planning, safety, quality, and technical activities on complex projects, ensuring operations align with established schedules and that work methods are executed safely through effective field supervision and coordination with subcontractor management.

Subcontractor Management and Planning

• Monitor and organize subcontractor activities through coordination and instruction of subcontractor’s management staff within the area of responsibility.
• Review and monitor subcontractor construction schedules, resource charts, and material and equipment requirements.
• Coordinate the construction operations impact on external interfaces to ensure they coincide with overall established schedules.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor short-term construction plans, including 3-week look-ahead schedules, manpower forecasts, equipment requirements, and work-front availability.
• Drive tank construction utilizing Work Packaging principles, planning work by systems and test boundaries while proactively managing constraints and work-front availability.

Tank Construction and Quality Assurance

• Lead and supervise tank construction activities, including site-erected carbon steel tanks, API storage tanks, Carbon-in-Leach (CIL) tanks, thickener tanks, and shop-fabricated tank installations, ensuring safe, efficient, and quality execution.
• Manage and coordinate subcontractors, direct-hire workforce, foremen, and craft professionals involved in tank erection, welding, mechanical completion, testing, and commissioning activities.
• Ensure all tank construction works are executed in accordance with approved engineering drawings, vendor requirements, project specifications, API standards, applicable codes, tolerances, and client requirements.
• Oversee welding activities and ensure compliance with approved Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), Inspection and Test Plans (ITP), project quality requirements, and applicable industry standards.
• Coordinate and monitor all Non-Destructive Examination (NDE/NDT) activities including VT, MT, PT, UT, PAUT, and RT as applicable, ensuring timely completion and compliance with project requirements.
• Manage hydrostatic testing, leak testing, settlement monitoring, cleaning, preservation, and final acceptance activities for tanks and thickeners.
• Coordinate heavy lifting, rigging, and erection activities associated with tank construction, ensuring compliance with approved lift plans, rigging studies, crane capacities, critical lift requirements, and project safety procedures.
• Enforce policies, procedures, and related work rules as established by field construction management, including project Environmental, Safety & Health (ES&H) requirements and Safety Management Plans.

Technical Support and Project Coordination

• Support Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents.
• Coordinate engineering solutions with Subcontractors, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, and coordinate with Design on constructability issues.
• Review and interpret engineering, vendor, and technical documentation, providing construction support and resolving field-related technical and constructability issues.
• Coordinate with Construction Field Engineers, Quality, Safety, Engineering, Procurement, and Project Controls teams to maintain compliance with project schedules, budgets, and quality requirements.
• Support project reporting requirements by maintaining accurate records of construction progress, welding status, NDT completion, hydrotest activities, manpower utilization, and field issues.

Required Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in leading and supervising tank construction activities.
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills in managing diverse project stakeholders, including subcontractors, direct-hire workforce, foremen, and craft professionals.
• Strong ability to interpret engineering, vendor, and technical documentation, providing construction support and resolving field-related technical and constructability issues.
• Comprehensive knowledge of tank erection, welding procedures (WPS), Non-Destructive Examination (NDE/NDT), hydrostatic testing, and heavy lifting operations.
• Demonstrated capability to ensure compliance with approved engineering drawings, API standards, project specifications, and all applicable codes.
• Skill in developing and monitoring short-term construction plans, including look-ahead schedules, manpower forecasts, and equipment requirements.
• Excellent coordination and communication skills for effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (Engineering, Quality, Safety, Procurement, Project Controls).
• Proficiency in maintaining accurate project records and supporting reporting requirements for construction progress, welding status, NDT completion, and hydrotest activities.
• Commitment to implementing project Environmental, Safety & Health (ES&H) requirements and Safety Management Plans.
• Experience in overseeing the planning and utilization of construction tools, welding equipment, testing equipment, cranes, and consumables required for tank construction activities.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

This role involves extensive field inspections within active construction environments. Candidates must possess the ability to perform physically demanding tasks, including walking long distances, climbing ladders and scaffolding, working at heights, and accessing confined spaces as required for tank inspection and construction activities. The position also requires the ability to work effectively in hot and humid climatic conditions typical of Middle East construction projects, and to use all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) associated with assigned construction activities.