Project - Construction Director

Project and role

Programme oversight and controls

• Oversee masterplan delivery and executive commercial, planning, and risk reporting in a matrix PMO.
• Control delivery, recommend commercial strategy, manage pre- and post-contract oversight, support timely decisions, and prevent schedule slippage and cost overruns.
• Coordinate standard PMC reporting on quality, commercial matters, planning, and safety.
• Validate stage-gate progress and earned progress against baseline schedules.
• Coordinate project cost reports, annual programme-wide budgets, and monthly cashflow reports.
• Contribute to value engineering; identify scope risks and growth trends; forecast milestone completion with PMCs and planners.
• Support portfolio-wide risk management, governance, decision-making, and assurance under approved policies and frameworks.

Stakeholders, compliance, and closeout

• Work with PMCs on stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement plans; identify stakeholder and third-party coordination risks.
• Validate creation, accurate reporting, and management of the Approvals Register.
• Coordinate identification and mitigation of health, safety, environmental, and quality compliance risks.
• Coordinate risks and mitigation for project completion, taking-over certificate conditions, and defects.
• Coordinate operational readiness, asset transfer, and defects liability between PMCs and the client; facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Produce project closeout reports.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in construction management engineering or architecture.
• PMI-PMP, Professional Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years managing major civil, infrastructure, and development programmes; at least 3 years as Project Director or Construction Director.
• Working-level experience in logistics, planning, scheduling, risk management, cost estimating, project controls, and reporting.

Skills and competencies

• Strong commitment to health, safety, environment, and quality; analytical and problem-solving ability with attention to detail.
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office Suite and enterprise reporting platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Competencies include data analytics and visualization, reporting, stakeholder management, quality focus, continuous improvement, planning and organizing, collaboration, customer focus, and data-driven decision-making.