Project Manager – Doors & Joinery (U.A.E.)

Position Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead doors, joinery, and hardware projects from award to final handover.
• Manage programme, cost, quality, HSE, contractual compliance, and project risks.
• Coordinate clients, consultants, contractors, suppliers, factories, and internal teams.
• Develop project strategies, programmes, resources, milestones, and deliverables.
• Review contracts, drawings, specifications, BOQs, and scopes for obligations, risks, interfaces, and opportunities.
• Lead shop drawings, submittals, samples, mock-ups, technical documentation, and approvals.
• Coordinate procurement, production, logistics, and installation in line with the programme.
• Monitor progress, cost, resources, and milestones, implementing corrective and recovery measures.
• Manage variations, additional works, claims, and commercial opportunities.
• Lead site coordination, installation, inspections, testing, NCRs, snags, and close-out.
• Ensure compliance with drawings, specifications, standards, QA/QC, and HSE requirements.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams and drive completion, handover, client satisfaction, and repeat business opportunities.

Required Skills

• Strong project leadership, planning, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong contract, commercial, risk, and project controls knowledge.
• Excellent stakeholder, negotiation, communication, and follow-up skills.
• Strong technical knowledge of doors, joinery, architectural hardware, and fit-out.
• Experience with budgets, variations, claims, QA/QC, HSE, procurement, and site execution.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple projects.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Excel, Word, and MS Project.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 7–12 years of relevant project management experience, preferably in doors, joinery, fit-out, or construction.
• Proven experience managing projects from award through completion and handover.
• Strong knowledge of door systems, architectural hardware, joinery, and finishes.
• Experience coordinating consultants, contractors, suppliers, manufacturers, and multidisciplinary teams.
• U.A.E. project experience is strongly preferred.