Senior Project Administrator
Role Overview
Provide administrative and coordination support across multiple construction projects.
Coordinate documentation, reporting, meetings, correspondence, records, and workflows to support project execution.
Work with Project Managers, Engineers, site teams, clients, consultants, and subcontractors.
Key Skills for This Role
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Industry
The posting identifies Desert Group’s industries as construction, landscape, and infrastructure.
Role overview
Provide administrative and coordination support across multiple construction projects.
Coordinate documentation, reporting, meetings, correspondence, records, and workflows to support project execution.
Work with Project Managers, Engineers, site teams, clients, consultants, and subcontractors.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily project administration and coordinate project communications and documentation.
- Maintain records, registers, trackers, approvals, reports, schedules, submissions, and meeting action items.
- Coordinate with internal departments, clients, consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers.
- Support project procurement documentation, staff records, and mobilization and demobilization arrangements.
- Track approvals and contract records, and support presentations, audits, and management updates.
- Identify administrative bottlenecks, improve coordination and reporting, and guide junior administrators where applicable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
- 8–12+ years of relevant project administration experience, preferably in construction, civil engineering, infrastructure, or landscape contracting.
- Strong UAE construction industry experience is highly preferred.
- Proven experience supporting Project Managers, Engineers, and site teams on construction projects.
- Good understanding of construction project workflows, correspondence, reporting, approvals, and coordination procedures.
- Experience maintaining project registers, trackers, meeting minutes, progress reports, and administrative records.
Work location
- Work is in person.
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