Site Manager

Role overview

This position is for a Site Manager who will oversee construction execution across one or more sites. The role covers overall site organization, coordination with Site Supervisors, and ensuring that work is delivered safely, with the required quality, technical compliance, budget control, and schedule discipline. The Site Manager will report to the Head of Regional Site Teams and will have a functional reporting line to the Operation Manager of the GCP Ops Site Works department.

The role also includes maintaining site records, supporting project close-out, and sharing lessons learned and feedback at the end of the project.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the project timeline and make sure site progress stays aligned with the approved schedule.
• Work with the Site Works Coordinator, where needed, to prepare and follow up on site schedules.
• Review project targets with the Project Manager, including cost, timing, staffing, and resource assumptions set during estimation and updated at project start.
• Run the site in line with the budget objectives agreed at the beginning of the project.
• Look for practical ways to reduce costs and control unnecessary spending.
• Track spending variances in the monthly report and provide clear explanations for any gaps versus budget.
• Keep NCR tracking and the opportunity/claim log current.
• Identify project risks and put actions in place to prevent, reduce, or remove them.
• Prepare the project before site execution begins by coordinating with relevant departments, GCP/Ops Operations, the Site Works Coordinator, and the Project Manager on design review, kickoff meetings, mobilization, and related planning.
• Support preparation of the internal contract budget quote with the Site Works Coordinator.
• Define assembly methods with the Site Works Coordinator and adapt them to the contract requirements of the project.
• Pass the execution plan to the Site Supervisors.
• Set up the site organization structure and establish the required offices and facilities on site.
• Ensure the site is managed according to the organization model agreed with the Project Manager and GCP/Ops Operations.
• Lead the project together with the Site Supervisor(s) in line with job specifications, contractual terms, assignment orders, the quality plan, the HSE plan, and operating procedures.
• Receive, accept, and store equipment and devices at the site.
• Make sure the site setup, work methods, testing and commissioning activities, and all on-site resources such as buildings, containers, machines, and vehicles comply with applicable laws and local regulations.
• For HSE matters, coordinate with the HSE Manager assigned to each site.
• Provide technical support to the Site Works Coordinator when required.
• Establish a site quality plan.
• Control customer-supplied materials used in the works and ensure site execution follows the quality management system and related procedures, including NCR tracking.
• Assess customer facilities and identify opportunities for improvement or corrective solutions.
• Ensure test and commissioning tools and devices are properly maintained, checked, calibrated, transported, and handed over to site as required.
• Make sure all operators, including subcontractors, keep drawings updated and that red-marked documents are forwarded to the Design Office so final as-built documents can be completed.
• Prepare monthly status updates, progress reports, meeting minutes, transportation damage statements, site arrival condition reports, final stock condition reports, operating incident records, equipment incident records, and non-conformance records for the Project Manager and GCP/Ops Operations, with the Site Works Coordinator.
• At project close, prepare the end-of-project review materials with the Site Works Coordinator and centralize marked-up documents and drawings for validation before they are sent to the Project Manager and customer, subject to approval.
• Ensure health and safety rules are applied on site in line with local regulations, Schneider Electric directives, and customer requirements.
• Confirm that site resources, skills, experience, and accreditation levels match the nature of the work being performed.
• Implement, maintain, and update the site safety plan and related risk assessments, and ensure field service representatives and subcontractors comply with HSE requirements.
• Carry out site safety inspections.
• Hold regular safety meetings and follow up on action plans.
• Manage safety incidents and take immediate corrective action.
• Monitor, document, track, and review safety KPIs.
• Carry overall responsibility for EHS matters on assigned sites within the limits of the role’s authority, skills, and resources.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience as a Site Supervisor or Commissioning Supervisor.
• A two-year post-secondary qualification in Electrical Engineering.
• Fluent English at C1 level; additional languages are an advantage.
• Strong flexibility and reliability, with a sharp eye for technical details and customer needs.
• Good teamwork mindset and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing and verbally on technical topics.
• Comfortable using common software tools, including MS Office, MS Project, Acrobat, AutoCAD, Outlook, and Omicron or similar test-device software.
• Strong knowledge of medium-voltage and low-voltage equipment, power station fundamentals, and modern commissioning test principles.
• Exposure to or working knowledge of Schneider MV equipment such as Premset, MCSET, and PIX, protection relays such as SEPAM, Micom, and Easergy, APC Symmetra UPS systems, and LV distribution panels such as Blokset, Okken, and Prisma is an advantage.

About the company

Schneider Electric is focused on helping turn sustainability ambitions into real action through automation, electrification, and digitization. The company emphasizes inclusion, mastery, purpose, action, curiosity, and teamwork, and highlights a culture built around ethics, compliance, safety, sustainability, quality, and cybersecurity. It also promotes equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion across hiring and advancement.

Additional information

This is a full-time onsite role based in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates.

No salary or stipend has been specified for this position.

Applicants must complete an online application to be considered, and the posting remains open until the role is filled.

The employer states that it is an equal opportunity organization and supports fair hiring and advancement regardless of protected characteristics.

The company also notes that its values are built around inclusion, mastery, purpose, action, curiosity, and teamwork.