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Project Director

Confidential Construction
Dubai, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Construction project deliveryProject execution strategy and governanceCommercial and financial managementCost forecasting and cash-flow managementContract administration and claimsProgramme and critical-path management

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Role purpose

Accountable for end-to-end delivery and overall performance of one or more large, complex, or strategically significant construction projects.

Leads projects from mobilization through testing, commissioning, handover, final account, and defects-liability obligations.

Ensures contractual, commercial, programme, cost, cash-flow, quality, and safety objectives while protecting company interests.

Leadership and project delivery

  • Direct project delivery and establish execution strategy, governance, delivery model, mobilization plan, objectives, milestones, and accountabilities.
  • Provide executive direction, escalate and resolve critical issues, and lead engineering coordination, construction methods, buildability, and value engineering.
  • Oversee authority approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, snagging, handover, as-built documentation, and close-out.
  • Approve construction methods, temporary works, logistics, work-front plans, sequencing, and mobilization; direct recovery planning when delivery falls behind.
  • Integrate baseline and recovery programmes, critical-path activities, engineering, procurement, approvals, and subcontractor plans.
  • Direct manpower, equipment, materials, and subcontractor deployment; review progress, productivity, procurement, and constraints.
  • Own commercial and financial performance, including profitability, cash flow, cost forecasts, revenue, claims, and cost optimization.
  • Review contractual negotiations, variations, claims, extensions of time, deductions, liquidated damages, back-charges, notices, payment applications, and subcontractor exposure.
  • Ensure compliance with quality, health and safety, environmental, authority, and regulatory requirements; address incidents and non-conformances.
  • Build executive relationships with clients, consultants, authorities, and strategic partners; represent the company in senior project and commercial meetings.
  • Direct project risk management, reporting, corrective actions, continuous improvement, and lessons learned.

Qualifications and experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent is required.
  • At least 12 years of construction or contracting project management and operations experience, including delivery of major or complex projects in the UAE.
  • At least 8 years in progressively increasing managerial responsibilities.
  • Fluent written and spoken English is essential.
  • PMP certification or equivalent is preferred; Arabic is preferred.

About the employer

The employer is a construction and contracting company; the company name is confidential.

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