Job Requisition ID: 161387
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.
By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day
Overview of the role
To co-ordinate all design information from Consultants / Specialist Contractors drawings and assist in the preparation of workshop drawings. Supervision and development of junior co-ordinators.
What you will be doing?
Design Coordination
- Collate information from related Arch / Struct / MEP consultant’s drawings/ design calculations / RFI responses / EI / amendments advised by sub-contractors and incorporate them into the appropriate workshop drawings.
- Check drawing development / presentation / accuracy of drawings.
- Ensure compliance with the latest specifications and drawing standards.
- Acts as the first contact person as design questions and issues arise in the field
- Establishes design coordination meetings with suppliers / subcontractors and issue follow up notes.
- Coordinate with vendors and assist Project consultant in material selection and detailed drawing development.
- Liaise with procurement department during subcontract finalization for responding the technical queries from the Supply chain
- Liaise with project commercial department for finalization of scope between trade contractors, especially finalize scope gap between trade contractors
- Ensure all design information is current and coordinate with all trades having model deliverables for timely delivery of the project.
- Creates project closeout documents as per project specifications and liaise with Project consultant for approval.
Efficiency
- Plan and organize workload to meet project priorities.
- Creates and manages lists of open decision items and put a timetable that decisions must be made within the time frame without delaying the project schedule.
- Establishes design coordination meetings with suppliers / subcontractors and issue follow up notes.
- Demonstrate ability to work unsupervised but also highlight issues to senior design staff.
- Resolve issues and coordination of information to meet required timescales and site activities raising RFIs as necessary.
Communication Skills
- Demonstrate good written and oral skills.
- Interact with Senior / Junior staff / Client / Site Team to provide appropriate feedback (meetings, advance info etc).
- Communicate with vendors and assists Project consultant in material selection and detailed drawing development.
- Show ability to manage workload with subordinate staff.
Technical Knowledge
- Extensive knowledge and experience with a variety of computer applications, including, but not limited to: AutoCAD, MS Office, Photoshop.
- Demonstrate ability to visualize in 3D.
- Understand the requirements and ability to read Consultants / Sub contractors drawings.
- Raise RFI’s / highlighting areas left uncoordinated by the Consultants / Sub contractors.
- Understand different disciplines within the construction team and reflect this in the way coordination problems are resolved.
- Develop an understanding of electronic document management system.
- Understand the requirements of a collaboration system and how it will benefit the design department.
Required Skills to be successful
Behavioural Competencies:
- Delighting our customers
- Working across boundaries
- Managing Complexity
- Influencing Others
- Taking Initiative
- Driving for Results
- Engaging Leadership
- Developing Talent
- Situational Adaptability
- Demonstrating Self-Awareness
What qualifies you for the role
- Degree in Civil Engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of UAE experience in a similar role.
- Good Communication Skills
- Ability to raise queries/RFI’s on a regular basis
- Ability to work effectively with Design Management teams
About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.
The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.
The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.
These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.
