Project Manager/1029/2B

Role overview

Project delivery

• Lead highways, roads, bridges, interchanges, drainage, utilities, street lighting, ITS, and associated infrastructure works.
• Develop project execution plans, construction strategies, schedules, budgets, and resource plans.
• Monitor progress, cost, cash flow, productivity, quality, safety, risks, and contractual performance.
• Coordinate project interfaces across roads, structures, utilities, drainage, traffic diversions, electrical systems, and landscaping.

Coordination and control

• Coordinate with RTA, consultants, authorities, clients, subcontractors, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Secure timely designs, approvals, NOCs, permits, materials, equipment, manpower, and construction work fronts.
• Review baseline programmes, recovery plans, progress reports, cost forecasts, and resource requirements.
• Lead coordination meetings and manage risks, delays, technical constraints, and recovery measures.

Commercial and close-out

• Oversee contract administration, variations, claims, extension-of-time submissions, and commercial matters.
• Ensure compliance with RTA requirements, UAE regulations, specifications, QA/QC procedures, and EHS standards.
• Drive testing, commissioning, authority approvals, final handover, and project close-out; report performance to senior management.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from a recognized university.
• 20–25 years of relevant roads, highways, bridges, infrastructure, or major civil/EPC experience.
• At least five years in a Project Manager or equivalent leadership role on large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of highway construction, structures, utilities, drainage, traffic management, project controls, and authority procedures.
• Understanding of contract administration, claims, variations, cost control, risk management, and project reporting.

Leadership and preferred qualifications

• Manage multidisciplinary teams, subcontractors, consultants, authorities, and clients; demonstrate leadership, commercial awareness, decision-making, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving.
• RTA Dubai road or highway project experience is strongly preferred.
• PMP or equivalent project-management certification is advantageous.
• Major UAE RTA project, design-and-build, EPC, authority approval, and end-to-end delivery experience is preferred or advantageous.