About the Role
The Director – Delivery – Technical will provide essential technical leadership for the delivery of major residential developments within the Residential Business Unit. This role is pivotal in overseeing the technical progression of projects from design development through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. The incumbent will ensure that design intent is accurately translated into technically robust, buildable, and commercially efficient solutions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across residential projects from design development through construction and handover.
- Lead coordination between Development, Design, Delivery, Commercial, consultants, and contractors.
- Review designs for constructability, technical compliance, value engineering, and delivery risk.
- Manage technical stage gates, design reviews, and resolution of complex multidisciplinary interfaces.
- Support procurement strategy, tendering, and technical evaluation of contractors and consultants.
- Oversee architectural, structural, MEP, façade, and other key technical interfaces during delivery.
- Monitor program, cost-plan, and technical risks, identifying corrective actions where required.
- Ensure construction quality, specifications, and approved design requirements are maintained.
- Oversee testing, commissioning, snagging, defect closure, and technical readiness for handover.
- Manage key stakeholder, authority, consultant, and contractor relationships.
- Provide technical guidance and leadership to project delivery teams across the residential portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of relevant project and technical delivery experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
- Strong experience delivering large-scale residential or mixed-use developments, including apartments, villas, and masterplanned communities.
- Significant client-side developer or PMC experience, ideally combined with contractor-side experience.
- Demonstrable experience across the full project lifecycle, from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Strong understanding of design management, constructability, value engineering, procurement, and construction delivery.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and complex project interfaces.
- GCC experience strongly preferred; Saudi Arabia experience advantageous.
- Strong leadership, commercial awareness, and senior stakeholder management capability.
