Mechanical Construction Manager

AFW Construction Manager JD Job Description - Construction Manager Position Details Title: Construction Manager Location: Alexandria, Egypt (Projects Nationwide) Company: Alex Fort Worth - EPC Contractor (Heavy Industrial / Plants / Mining / Steel / Cement / Machinery) Reports to: Project Manager / Project Director About Alex Fort Worth Alex Fort Worth is a fast-growing EPC contractor delivering complex industrial projects across Egypt. We build safely, on time, and to exacting quality standards - partnering with national and international clients in heavy industry. Role Overview We are hiring a Construction Manager to own the construction delivery system across one or multiple sites/workfronts. The role governs how execution happens through HSE, Quality, Planning, and construction controls. Enforces internal approvals. Owns construction risk. Governs subcontractor performance. Owns people performance management. Ensures site execution is safe, compliant, predictable, auditable, and contract-defensible. Ensures Field Engineers deliver through clear standards, readiness gates, escalation discipline, and preserved evidence quality. Experience in brownfield projects is a must. HSE First HSE First (Governance): Own construction HSE governance. Ensure company/client HSE requirements are enforced through site governance routines and controls. Apply readiness-to-work gates. Maintain permit-to-work discipline. Apply stop/resume authority rules. Define escalation thresholds for high-risk work. Verify that mitigation controls are implemented before work proceeds. Treat recurring HSE issues as system failures and close them through preventive controls, not awareness only. Planning & Control Planning & Control (Integrity): Ensure short-interval planning discipline is reliable and constraint-controlled. Validate that look-aheads are achievable and supported by readiness conditions. Confirm drawings are released, materials are available, permits are in place, and inspection readiness is confirmed. Ensure progress information is credible and decision-grade. Activate recovery triggers early. Prevent paper progress. Require measurable completion evidence. Construction Management / Governance Construction Governance: Govern the construction operating model across trades and subcontractors. Approve execution approaches. Ensure approved methodologies, permits, and ITPs are in place before work proceeds. Maintain controlled interface management between disciplines and workfronts. Establish interface ownership rules. Establish workfront readiness rules. Maintain escalation discipline so field execution is controlled, not reactive. Quality Management / Governance Quality Governance: Own site quality control system effectiveness. Ensure ITP governance. Prevent repeat NCRs. Control punch list aging. Apply readiness gates for mechanical completion/handover. Ensure corrective actions eliminate recurrence. Ensure quality evidence is complete and acceptance-ready, including test packs, traceability, and inspection records. Contractor Management / Governance Contractor Governance: Own subcontractor performance outcomes through readiness validation, productivity governance, corrective action enforcement, and escalation decisions. Control through clear scope boundaries. Define measurable outputs. Apply compliance gates. Maintain evidence standards. Avoid informal site agreements. Change & Risk Change & Risk (Ownership): Own construction execution risk. Ensure timely escalation of scope deviations and high-impact risks. Ensure defensible evidence standards exist for variations/claims inputs. Trigger notices through governed channels. Ensure risk is visible, assigned, mitigated, and verified. Ensure risk is not left to individual engineers’ judgment alone. Client Relationship Client Relationship (Escalation Discipline): Maintain structured construction-level alignment with client and consultant leadership. Escalate with impact/option framing. Protect governance from unmanaged daily escalation noise. Keep communications contract-safe. Avoid informal commitments. Avoid uncontrolled approvals. Reporting Reporting & Data Integrity: Own integrity and auditability of construction data, including progress, HSE, and QA/QC. Ensure reporting is timely, consistent, and evidence-backed. Prevent uncontrolled document versions. Prevent unverified progress. Prevent non-traceable records that weaken claims or acceptance. Ensure decision-grade reporting, not report writing. Technical Leadership / Assurance Technical Assurance & Interfaces: Ensure technical queries and constructability risks are identified early. Govern through proper RFI/TTQ process. Ensure site decisions remain within authority and escalation rules. Prevent interface clashes through readiness gates and coordinated escalation, not rework. Documentation & Systems Documentation & Systems Governance: Ensure construction documentation discipline meets project document control standards. Maintain traceability. Ensure secure handling of sensitive information. Control distribution of drawings and instructions. Maintain acceptance-ready evidence. Maintain dispute-ready evidence. Nice-to-Haves by Discipline Multi-discipline construction governance experience, especially mechanical/civil interfaces. Strong understanding of inspection regimes. Readiness gates. Commissioning/handover gating. Tools & Digital Skills Construction governance tools, including methodology readiness gates, inspection readiness, and risk registers. Project controls literacy to challenge plan credibility and progress integrity. Document control discipline. Revision control. Secure handling of technical and commercially sensitive data. Advanced Excel and structured reporting interpretation, not report preparation only. What You Bring Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or equivalent. 12+ years of site experience on heavy industrial EPC/EPCM construction delivery with multi-discipline interfaces and subcontractor governance. Experience in brownfield projects is a must. Proven leadership in governance, performance management, escalation discipline, internal controls, and construction risk ownership. Strong command of HSE and QA/QC systems and regulatory compliance expectations in Egypt; international standards are a plus. Ability to preserve evidence quality, protect project data integrity and access control, and maintain audit readiness. Fluent Arabic and professional English. Willingness to travel/rotation. KPI Overview - Construction Manager HSE First HSE trend across areas/teams. Repeat violation rate. High-potential near-miss trend. Audit finding closure effectiveness (closed + verified). Stop/resume governance effectiveness (no premature restart). Planning & Control Plan reliability index (aggregate). Percentage of delays detected before critical path impact. Recovery trigger timeliness. Forecast accuracy trend for near-term execution. Variance explanation quality. Construction Management Contractor productivity variance trend. Interface risk containment. Corrective action sustainability rate. Reduction in firefighting escalations. Readiness gate compliance rate. Quality Management NCR trend by discipline. Repeat NCR root-cause frequency. Punch aging profile. Handover readiness index. Rework rate trend. Effectiveness of recurrence prevention. Contractor Management Subcontractor performance governance score. Readiness gate compliance. Contractor dependency risk (concentration). Escalation effectiveness for non-performing contractors. Sustained compliance rate. Change & Risk Percentage of risks identified pre-impact. Time from deviation detection to escalation. Claims defensibility index (evidence audit score). Mitigation success rate. Missed variations (system failures). Client Relationship Client construction confidence trend. Escalation discipline quality (signal vs noise). Reduction in repeat escalations. Consultant alignment effectiveness. Reporting Reporting confidence score (management reliance). Data accuracy audit score. Elimination of paper progress. Evidence traceability score for disputes. Technical Leadership Technical escalation discipline (right issues escalated early). Reduction in repeat technical clashes. Interface governance effectiveness. Documentation & Systems Revision control compliance. Access control adherence. Audit readiness of construction documentation. Evidence pack completeness for acceptance/claims. People & Performance Team KPI distribution variance. Coaching effectiveness (improvement trend). Workload balance index. Succession coverage for key field roles.