Construction & Fabrication Site Lead
Spring, TX, US, 77389
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What role you will play in our team
We are seeking highly skilled and motivated Site Construction and Fabrication Leads with 10-15+ years of relevant experience to join our Global Projects team. This position supports the successful execution of major capital projects by providing field leadership and execution oversight across fabrication yards and construction sites.
The Construction/Fabrication Lead reports directly to the Fabrication Manager, Construction Manager, or designated Site Manager and serves as a key member of the project leadership team. The role is responsible for coordinating contractors, monitoring execution performance, driving safety and quality compliance, and ensuring fabrication and construction activities are completed in accordance with project requirements, schedules, and budget objectives. The role may initially support project planning and execution activities from the Houston Campus office but will ultimately be based at project fabrication yards and/or construction sites across North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or other international locations.
Job Role Responsibilities
- Promote a strong safety culture and ensure safe work practices are consistently demonstrated by project team members, contractors, and subcontractors.
- Support implementation of project execution strategies and fabrication/construction fundamentals.
- Monitor field execution activities to ensure compliance with safety, quality, schedule, and productivity objectives.
- Support project leadership in achieving project milestones and delivery commitments.
1. During FEED
- Participate in constructability reviews and provide practical input on fabrication and construction execution methodologies, build sequences, and installation strategies.
- Support development of preliminary execution strategies, site logistics plans, work packaging approaches, and project schedules.
- Review engineering deliverables and identify opportunities to improve constructability, fabrication efficiency, construction execution, and field productivity.
- Assist in identifying project risks and developing mitigation strategies.
2. During Tender
- Support development of fabrication and construction scopes of work.
- Participate in technical evaluations of contractor, fabrication yard, and construction proposals.
- Review contractor execution plans, schedules, staffing strategies, and productivity assumptions.
- Provide field execution expertise to support contractor selection and project planning activities.
3. During Execution
- Provide day-to-day leadership and oversight of assigned fabrication and/or construction scopes and activities.
- Utilize data-driven KPIs to monitor progress against schedule and support recovery planning when required.
- Monitor work-front management to ensure sustainable execution based on fabrication sequences, construction work fronts, and overall project priorities.
- Ensure work is executed in accordance with approved procedures, engineering requirements, project specifications, and quality standards.
- Drive resolution of field issues, technical queries, and execution constraints.
- Support implementation of site safety programs, work permitting systems, and hazard mitigation initiatives.
- Verify contractor staffing, supervision, equipment, and productivity levels meet project requirements.
- Actively monitor Mechanical Completion progress and handover status to ensure timely achievement of project milestones.
- Facilitate communication between engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and operations personnel.
- Participate in planning meetings, progress reviews, and site coordination activities.
- Monitor and report execution status, key risks, emerging issues, and mitigation actions to project leadership.
- Support site inspections, audits, and contractor performance reviews.
- Capture and communicate lessons learned and best practices across the organization.
Job Role Requirements
Technical Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline, and/or 10-15+ years of relevant industrial fabrication and/or construction experience.
- Demonstrated experience executing major capital projects in fabrication yards, construction sites, or both.
- Strong planning and forecasting skills utilizing data-driven metrics, key performance indicators, and work-front management tools to drive execution performance.
- Strong understanding of fabrication and construction work processes, field execution, productivity measurement, and contractor management.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary activities, including civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, and instrumentation scopes.
- Working knowledge of project controls, scheduling, construction planning, execution planning, and risk management processes.
- Familiarity with mechanical completion, commissioning support, startup activities, and project turnover requirements.
- Ability to analyze complex field issues and develop practical execution strategies to maintain project objectives.
Behavioral Skills
- Strong leadership and team-building capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop early-career professionals.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced and dynamic project environments.
- Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
- Commitment to safety, quality, and excellence in project execution.
- Geographically mobile and willing to travel internationally as project needs require.
Preferred Knowledge / Skills / Experience
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:
- Experience leading fabrication work fronts, construction work fronts, or both on large capital projects.
- Experience with modular fabrication, Modular Local Electrical Rooms (MLERs), integrated topsides/living quarters, loadouts, and field installation activities.
- Demonstrated success managing contractor performance and driving continuous improvement.
- Experience working in Tier 1 Asian fabrication yards and/or international construction sites.
- Strong understanding of construction planning, fabrication planning, work packaging, site logistics, and execution management.
- Knowledge of commissioning, startup, and project handover processes.
- Proven ability to deliver work safely, on schedule, and within budget.
- Experience supporting projects from FEED through commissioning and startup
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