Role Purpose

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Leadership and Contract Delivery

• Review and fully understand the approved project scope, employer’s requirements, specifications, drawings, BOQ, contract obligations, deliverables, interfaces, milestones, exclusions, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain the project execution plan, instrumentation and survey programme, resource plan, procurement schedule, mobilisation plan, risk register, reporting matrix, and responsibility matrix.
• Translate design requirements into executable site activities and ensure that monitoring works are implemented in accordance with approved drawings, method statements, inspection and test plans, and project procedures.
• Monitor progress against baseline and look-ahead programmes; identify delays, constraints, and critical-path risks and implement recovery actions.
• Ensure successful completion, testing, handover, and close-out of the scope in accordance with contractual milestones.

2. Technical Management of Surveying and I&M

• Lead multidisciplinary survey, instrumentation, database, field engineering, installation, data-processing, and reporting teams.
• Review monitoring designs, instrument selection, quantities, locations, installation orientation, reference systems, calibration requirements, baseline procedures, reading frequencies, and trigger levels.
• Ensure correct installation, protection, identification, commissioning, baseline establishment, maintenance, calibration, and replacement of instruments.
• Direct and coordinate monitoring associated with TBM tunnels, stations, shafts, cross passages, cut-and-cover works, utilities, adjacent buildings, bridges, viaducts, retaining systems, and deep excavations.
• Ensure surveying controls, benchmarks, reference points, coordinate systems, levelling loops, total-station networks, and monitoring prisms are independently checked and remain stable.
• Confirm that monitoring frequency is aligned with construction stage, risk level, approved Trigger Action Response Plan (TARP), and client requirements.

3. Engineering Interpretation and Data Governance

• Review raw, validated, processed, and filtered survey and instrumentation data for completeness, accuracy, consistency, traceability, and engineering plausibility.
• Correlate movement and response with construction activities, including TBM chainage and advance, face pressure, tail-void grouting, excavation stages, dewatering, strut or anchor installation and removal, and permanent structural works.
• Assess settlement, heave, convergence, lateral movement, tilt, strain, load, groundwater pressure, vibration, acceleration, rate of change, and other relevant parameters against design predictions and trigger levels.
• Approve documented processing methods—including moving average, median filtering, outlier assessment, temperature compensation, and drift checks—only when technically justified and permitted by the project procedure.
• Ensure filtering or correction never masks genuine movement, structural response, instrument malfunction, or a threshold exceedance; preserve original raw data and a complete audit trail.
• Lead investigations into discrepancies between manual and automatic readings, instruments and survey results, field observations and trends, or actual behaviour and design predictions.
• Escalate significant findings promptly to the Project Director, client, designer, consultant, contractor, and relevant technical authorities in accordance with the communication and alert protocol.

4. Proqio and Monitoring-System Oversight

• Oversee the configuration, verification, and operation of the Proqio monitoring database, dashboards, plans, cross-sections, charts, reports, trigger levels, notifications, user permissions, and audit trails.
• Ensure instrument IDs, coordinates, chainages, elevations, units, calibration factors, baselines, reading frequencies, and alert thresholds are correct before data is released.
• Establish a controlled workflow for data receipt, validation, engineering review, approval, upload, post-upload verification, correction, and reporting.
• Ensure data availability, backups, cybersecurity compliance, controlled access, and reliable interfaces with automatic data loggers, gateways, survey systems, and authorised project servers.
• Maintain a discrepancy and data-quality register showing the issue, responsible party, action, approval, resolution, and close-out date.

5. Construction Sequence and Risk Management

• Maintain a sound understanding of the construction sequence and structural behaviour of bored and cut-and-cover tunnels, underground stations, shafts, deep excavations, diaphragm and secant pile walls, struts, ground anchors, slabs, columns, and temporary and permanent works.
• Understand the expected deformation of soil, rock, steel supports, reinforced-concrete elements, and nearby assets, and compare measured performance with design assumptions and finite-element predictions.
• Review PLAXIS or other finite-element model outputs, predicted deformation envelopes, sensitivity cases, and monitoring trigger values in coordination with the designer and geotechnical/structural specialists.
• Maintain the project risk register and identify technical, safety, programme, interface, material, data, resource, and commercial risks before they affect delivery.
• Implement and enforce the Alert-Action-Alarm/TARP process, including immediate notification, verification, increased monitoring, engineering assessment, action tracking, and close-out.

6. Client, Consultant and Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface for the client, engineer/consultant, designer, main contractor, specialist subcontractors, authorities, and internal management for the monitoring scope.
• Chair and participate in progress, technical, design, risk, data-review, alert, commercial, and coordination meetings.
• Present complex monitoring trends, discrepancies, risks, and recommended actions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Record and issue minutes of meeting, maintain action trackers, and upload approved records to the designated document-control system.
• Build strong working relationships and maintain consistent customer communication, transparency, and service quality.

7. Planning, Resources, Procurement and Site Control

• Plan and manage manpower, shift rosters, specialist support, plant, tools, access, permits, logistics, and site interfaces for day and night operations.
• Review material submittals, procurement status, manufacturing, factory acceptance, shipment, delivery, storage, inspection, calibration certificates, and availability against the installation programme.
• Verify BOQ quantities, track installed and balance quantities, control wastage, and forecast material and resource requirements.
• Ensure all team members are competent, trained, briefed, and deployed in accordance with approved procedures and UAE project conditions.
• Enforce health, safety, quality, environmental, security, and permit-to-work requirements across all project activities.

8. Reporting, Commercial Administration and Close-out

• Review and approve daily, weekly, monthly, exception, alert, trend, and interpretative monitoring reports before submission.
• Submit accurate progress reports covering installation, data availability, monitoring results, alerts, constraints, risks, procurement, resources, commercial status, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate monthly progress measurement, payment applications, supporting records, variations, claims, change orders, and commercial correspondence with the commercial team.
• Ensure deliverables pass internal quality checks and are submitted within contractual timelines.
• Maintain complete project records, including approvals, photographs, installation logs, calibration certificates, raw data, reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, lessons learned, and handover documents.
• Document project progress, technical achievements, case studies, photographs, innovations, and lessons learned for authorised corporate knowledge and marketing use.

Decision and Escalation Authority

• Stop or hold the release of questionable data or reports pending verification and approval.
• Escalate confirmed or suspected threshold exceedances immediately in accordance with the approved notification matrix.
• Direct repeat readings, independent survey checks, field inspection, instrument testing, increased monitoring frequency, or specialist review where data reliability or asset safety may be affected.
• Recommend corrective action, additional instrumentation, design review, construction-sequence changes, or specialist analysis; implementation remains subject to the project’s formal approval process.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Structural, Geotechnical Engineering, Surveying/Geomatics, or a closely related discipline. A relevant postgraduate degree is an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including responsibility for major underground infrastructure, metro, railway, tunnelling, deep excavation, structural health monitoring, or complex civil works.
• Demonstrated experience managing survey and instrumentation teams, specialist subcontractors, monitoring databases, and client/consultant interfaces.
• Hands-on understanding of geotechnical and structural instruments, their behaviour, installation orientation, calibration, commissioning, baseline establishment, maintenance, and data limitations.
• Experience interpreting monitoring results against design predictions, construction progress, trigger values, and finite-element analysis.
• UAE or Middle East rail/infrastructure experience is preferred.

Technical Knowledge

• Underground metro and high-speed rail construction methods, TBM operations, deep excavations, temporary works, dewatering, retaining systems, concrete structures, and structural steel behaviour.
• Survey monitoring, precise levelling, total-station systems, GNSS, coordinate control, and survey-quality checks.
• Inclinometers, extensometers, piezometers, tiltmeters, crack/joint meters, strain gauges, load cells, pressure cells, convergence systems, vibration monitors, accelerometers, data loggers, and automated systems.
• Proqio or comparable web-based monitoring platforms, dashboard configuration, alarms, access control, reporting, and data-audit requirements.
• PLAXIS and/or other finite-element analysis outputs; ability to discuss model assumptions and measured-versus-predicted behaviour with designers.
• Data analytics, trend interpretation, rate-of-change analysis, moving averages and other approved filters, Excel, and preferably Power BI, GIS, CAD, SQL, or Python.
• Project planning, cost control, BOQ administration, quality management, document control, risk management, and contract administration.

Leadership Competencies

• Calm and decisive under pressure, particularly during alerts, abnormal readings, critical excavation stages, and TBM operations.
• Methodical, analytical, safety-conscious, and uncompromising on data integrity and traceability.
• Able to investigate difficult technical problems using design documents, research, case studies, field evidence, and specialist input.
• Strong leadership, delegation, coaching, negotiation, meeting-management, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Clear written and verbal English communication; able to prepare and defend technical reports and presentations.
• Commercial awareness, customer focus, accountability, and the ability to predict and manage scope and delivery risks.

Working Conditions

• Flexible to work day or night shifts, weekends, extended hours, or emergency monitoring periods according to UAE site conditions and critical construction activities.
• Willing to work from site offices, monitoring control rooms, underground work areas, or client/consultant offices as required.
• Able to attend urgent alert reviews and coordinate multidisciplinary actions outside normal working hours when project safety or continuity requires it.
• Must comply with all UAE labour requirements and project-specific health, safety, environmental, security, and confidentiality procedures.

Key Performance Indicators

• Achievement of contractual milestones, monitoring coverage, and reporting deadlines.
• Accuracy, completeness, availability, traceability, and timeliness of surveying and instrumentation data.
• Timely identification, verification, escalation, and closure of alerts, discrepancies, and data-quality issues.
• Installation quality, instrument uptime, data capture rate, and closure of defects.
• Programme, resource, procurement, cost, variation, and payment-application performance.
• Compliance with approved procedures, quality plans, TARP, HSE requirements, and client expectations.
• Client satisfaction, team performance, action close-out, successful handover, and quality of lessons learned.