Project Director

Role overview

Project leadership and delivery

• Represent the Client as the day-to-day project lead and establish governance, procedures, and reporting structures.
• Maintain the execution plan across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and communications; chair progress meetings and track decisions and actions.
• Lead the integrated master programme covering design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning, and handover.
• Monitor contractor and consultant schedules, drive corrective actions, oversee cost control, evaluate variations, and manage scope and claims.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design reviews for hotel, serviced apartments, offices, retail, food and beverage, and entertainment components.
• Coordinate hotel package design and review systems including utilities, kitchens, laundry, vertical transportation, life safety, IT/ELV, and shell-and-core interfaces.
• Oversee contractors and PMC site teams, construction quality, site logistics, sequencing, method statements, shop drawings, and technical submittals.
• Drive HSE, QA/QC, inspections, corrective actions, audits, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate with the Client, designers, contractors, authorities, operators, leasing and asset-management teams, tenants, utilities, and regulators.
• Maintain risk and issue logs; report progress and KPIs, mitigate delays and disputes, and support negotiations or settlements.
• Plan and oversee commissioning, operator readiness, snagging, final completion, documentation, handover, and transition to operations.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Project/Construction Management or a related field is preferred.
• Project Management Professional, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent qualification.
• Membership of a recognized professional body.
• At least 20 years of total experience in construction and project management.
• PMC or client-side experience on large-scale mixed-use or hospitality-led developments.
• Direct experience delivering 4- or 5-star hotels and serviced apartments; international-operator experience is preferred.
• GCC project-management track record; Saudi Arabia experience is preferred.
• Strong design coordination and review experience, including management of LDCs and specialist designers.
• Hands-on shell-and-core and fit-out experience, including complex MEP systems and vertical transportation.
• Client-focused ownership, resilience, proactive work, attention to detail, commitment to quality and safety, and collaborative working.

Preferred qualification

• A Master’s degree in Project/Construction Management or a related field is preferred.

Workplace

• The role includes construction-site oversight and requires effective site presence.