Senior Project Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder inputs and coordinate building services design and execution across engineering, architecture, and civil/structural disciplines.
• Initiate and manage building services designs to meet budget; advise on infrastructure phasing, sequencing, and authority approvals.
• Provide technical input for infrastructure subcontract offers and awards; manage tender assessment, negotiation, and contract award.
• Resolve site planning and coordination issues and manage technical coordination meetings with subcontractors and project staff.
• Manage building services site works against the approved baseline programme and implement site approval protocols.
• Ensure infrastructure is delivered in line with design, specification, quality requirements, and project objectives.
• Apply quality and risk management principles, support the project team, and promote effective stakeholder relationships.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
• At least 15 years of post-qualification project management experience, including at least five years as a Senior Project Manager with a buildings background.
• Experience managing high-end real estate projects from inception to completion and project management experience with a leading PMC.
• Contract administration and computer literacy experience.
• Middle East experience is required; Abu Dhabi experience is preferred.

Skills and competence

• Apply quality management and risk assessment processes.
• Network, negotiate, influence, and build relationships with stakeholders inside and outside the project.
• Direct meetings, encourage discussion of the wider commercial context, and provide leadership to the project team.
• Consider broader environmental, social, and economic perspectives affecting the project.
• Perform hands-on duties to company quality standards and support continuous improvement.

Rewards and benefits

• Package includes accommodation and transportation allowances, annual leave, medical and life insurance, and a company gratuity scheme.
• Other offerings include a discretionary bonus, annual flight allowance to point of origin, and an Employee Assistance Programme.