Project Engineer - Upper Basin

JOB OVERVIEW The Project Engineer – Upper Basin supports the planning, supervision, and execution of Upper Basin construction works, ensuring alignment with engineering, quality, safety, environmental, and schedule requirements. The role works closely with contractors, consultants, the Owner’s Engineer, and internal teams to monitor progress, resolve technical issues, and ensure compliance with project standards. Ideal candidates have experience in large-scale earthworks and quality-critical civil infrastructure projects. THE ROLE Support Upper Basin construction strategies aligned with project objectives. Supervise Upper Basin civil works, including earthworks, embankments, roads, drainage, and slope stabilization. Coordinate with EPC contractors, consultants, and the Owner’s Engineer to ensure compliance with approved specifications, methods, drawings, and quality standards. Monitor contractor quality, safety, progress, manpower, equipment, and productivity. Review drawings, technical submittals, method statements, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), and schedules. Oversee earthworks testing, including OMC, MDD, Proctor, CBR, nuclear density, and sand replacement tests. Monitor laboratory testing of soils, aggregates, and concrete for compliance with project requirements. Control earthworks quality across material selection, layer preparation, moisture conditioning, compaction, testing, and acceptance. Support QA/QC for earthworks, embankments, concrete, and other quality-critical civil works. Support RCC mix designs, test sections, placement procedures, and testing, where applicable. Coordinate interfaces among civil, geotechnical, environmental, survey, quality, and electro-mechanical teams. Conduct site inspections and identify construction, quality, safety, and schedule risks. Address non-conformances and construction issues, ensuring timely corrective action. Track construction progress and prepare technical reports, analyses, dashboards, and presentations. Assist in evaluating construction issues, design changes, site instructions, non-conformances, and variations. Ensure compliance with environmental, health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. Support commissioning, handover, punch-list closure, and project closeout. Maintain accurate construction documents, quality records, inspection reports, test results, and lessons learned. Requirements Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering; PRC License preferred. Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in large-scale infrastructure, dam, hydropower, mining, water resources, or heavy civil construction projects. Proven experience in bulk earthworks construction with stringent quality assurance and quality control requirements. Experience in projects such as dams, tailings storage facilities, engineered levees, reservoirs, landfills, or similar large-scale earth structures is highly preferred. Familiarity with embankment construction, compaction control, material testing, geotechnical monitoring, and earthworks quality management. Mandarin/Chinese speaking ability is highly preferred. Willing to work 100% onsite and be assigned to either Rizal or Laguna project locations.