Project Director - Tunnels
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What You'll Be Doing
- Champion a strong safety culture across all contractors, consultants, and interfaces.
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary programme team including project managers, commercial, technical, and HSE leads.
- Build a high performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure succession planning and capability development across the programme team.
- Oversight and safe delivery of all tunnel, link sewers, terminal pump station and associated works.
- Monitor and report on progress, achievement of programme milestones and contractual completion dates, and commissioning schedule.
- Responsible for budget and commercial performance.
- Lead engagement with Client, legal/financial advisors, regulators, municipalities, utilities, and affected communities.
- Experience in leading/managing complex multi-disciplinary PPP projects
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related technical/business field
- Chartered Engineer or equivalent professional status
- 20+ years of related work experience
- Previous project management experience on similar or related large-scope project types
- Strong background in TBM tunnelling projects and underground construction risks, ideally in the waste water industry.
- Good understanding of wastewater pump station construction
- Deep understanding of tunnelling and underground construction risks
- Experience in leading/managing complex multi-disciplinary PPP infrastructure projects
- Excellent stakeholder and client management skills
- Strong commercial and contractual acumen
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Experience on mega projects (>USD 1bn) or multi contract programmes
- Experience working in live urban environments and with operational sewer networks
- Postgraduate qualification in project management or business administration
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