PMC Construction Manager - Fab Yard
Employer not yet confirmed · Abu Dhabi, UAE · onsite
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Construction Manager with a proven track record in overseeing and coordinates construction projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to required quality and safety standards for a high-profile client.
Our Clients and Projects
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood's Oil, Gas & New Energies business is built on a strong legacy of delivering large and complex projects for national and international energy companies across the globe. We have experienced teams, a proven delivery model and a strong reputation.
We are the market-leading provider of integrated and innovative solutions that challenge the status-quo in the oil and gas upstream and midstream, onshore and offshore, gas to liquids and decarbonisation and electrification markets. We pride ourselves in steady and predictable delivery, setting our sights on an exciting growth trajectory.
Energy security, transition and supply have never been more important. You, our enabling teams, are at the very forefront of transformative projects that are providing sustainable power to generations to come. We are the ones to bring low-carbon concepts to reality.
What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects: Delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: We are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
- Competitive renumeration package: With regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient, and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
- Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
- End of Service Gratuity: In line with UAE Labor Law, all employees are eligible for an End of Service benefit
- The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
- Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ service of our employees at 5 year service milestones
- Commitment to continued professional development: Development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
- Global connections: Join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
- Energy Transition Academy: Join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems – delivered by experts in their field
The key objectives for this role are:
The Construction Manager – Fabrication Yard is responsible for managing, coordinating, and overseeing all fabrication and construction activities undertaken by EPC contractors and fabrication subcontractors on behalf of the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) for ADNOC projects.
The role ensures that fabrication and assembly works are executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved engineering drawings, project specifications, ADNOC standards, applicable international codes, contractual requirements, and approved project schedules.
The position provides overall PMC construction leadership across fabrication yard operations, including structural steel fabrication, piping spool fabrication, module assembly, mechanical equipment installation, welding, inspection coordination, surface preparation, coating, and preparation for load-out and transportation, as applicable to the project scope.
The Construction Manager is responsible for monitoring contractor performance, managing fabrication progress and construction interfaces, resolving execution constraints, ensuring HSE and quality compliance, and coordinating with engineering, procurement, QA/QC, planning, logistics, offshore installation, and commissioning teams to achieve project milestones and successful handover.
Fabrication Yard Construction Management
- Provide overall PMC oversight and management of fabrication and construction activities performed by EPC contractors and subcontractors at the fabrication yard.
- Ensure fabrication works are executed in accordance with approved project execution plans, IFC/AFC drawings, technical specifications, ADNOC standards, and applicable international codes.
- Oversee fabrication of structural steel, piping spools, pipe racks, skids, process modules, equipment supports, platforms, and other project components within the assigned scope.
- Monitor module assembly, mechanical equipment installation, piping integration, structural erection, and associated construction activities.
- Review contractor construction strategies, fabrication execution plans, work packages, method statements, and construction sequencing from a PMC oversight perspective.
- Ensure adequate fabrication facilities, manpower, equipment, materials, work fronts, and specialist resources are available to support the approved construction schedule.
- Monitor fabrication readiness, work-front release, access arrangements, equipment availability, and coordination between fabrication areas.
- Identify constructability issues, engineering discrepancies, and execution constraints and coordinate their resolution with the relevant project teams.
- Ensure proposed fabrication changes and field modifications are reviewed and approved by authorized parties before implementation.
- Provide construction direction and oversight to PMC Senior Construction Engineers, Construction Superintendents, discipline engineers, and inspectors within the approved project organization.
Fabrication Planning, Progress, and Schedule Control
- Monitor fabrication progress against the approved baseline schedule, production targets, key milestones, and contractual completion dates.
- Review contractor fabrication schedules, look-ahead plans, manpower histograms, equipment deployment plans, and productivity reports.
- Coordinate with PMC Planning and Project Controls teams to validate reported progress, earned quantities, productivity, and forecast completion dates.
- Monitor fabrication progress through key stages, including material receipt, cutting, fit-up, welding, NDT, dimensional inspection, assembly, coating, and final release.
- Identify critical-path activities, delayed work packages, material shortages, engineering constraints, inspection bottlenecks, and resource limitations.
- Challenge contractor progress forecasts and recovery plans and monitor implementation of corrective actions.
- Ensure fabrication priorities are aligned with site construction sequences, offshore installation campaigns, transportation windows, and commissioning requirements, where applicable.
- Lead fabrication progress review meetings with EPC contractors and subcontractors and ensure timely closure of outstanding actions.
- Recommend resequencing, additional resources, improved work-front allocation, and other mitigation measures to protect project milestones.
- Provide regular and accurate fabrication status reports, forecasts, risks, and mitigation plans to the PMC Project Manager.
Contractor and Subcontractor Management
- Monitor EPC contractor and fabrication subcontractor performance against contractual obligations, approved construction plans, project specifications, and agreed milestones.
- Review contractor mobilization plans, staffing levels, fabrication capacity, resource utilization, and execution strategies.
- Ensure contractors maintain adequate supervision, skilled manpower, qualified welding personnel, inspection resources, and equipment to meet project requirements.
- Identify recurring performance issues, productivity shortfalls, poor workmanship, and non-compliance with approved