Project Director

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead master planning, infrastructure, building design, and multidisciplinary engineering delivery.
• Manage teams across architecture, urban planning, civil, structural, utilities, transportation, MEP, landscape, and specialist disciplines.
• Oversee the lifecycle from concept and master planning through detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.
• Integrate buildings, infrastructure, utilities, mobility, public realm, and site-wide systems.
• Set governance, design strategies, technical standards, schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability assessments, technical coordination, and design issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with codes, standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and client requirements.
• Manage design consultants and specialist subconsultants for quality, schedule, and technical performance.
• Develop relationships with clients, developers, authorities, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Promote BIM, GIS, digital engineering, and data-driven design coordination.
• Manage design risks, interfaces, changes, and dependencies across the project lifecycle.
• Lead, mentor, and develop project and design teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects.
• Proven Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior leadership experience.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering.
• Comprehensive understanding of design delivery from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support.
• Strong knowledge of design management, technical governance, project controls, risk, commercial management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

Desired qualifications

• Experience delivering major master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, infrastructure programs, or complex building portfolios in the UAE or Middle East is desired.
• Knowledge of regional planning, authority approvals, design codes, and utility requirements is desired.
• PMP, PE, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent professional certification is preferred.