About the Role
In a world of possibilities, you will pursue a career with endless opportunities as the Head of the E&M Transformation Programme in Doha, Qatar. In this role, you will provide direction and management, ensuring on-schedule completion within or below budget in accordance with contractual obligations. Guided by leadership values of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, you will cultivate an innovative culture and empower those around you to achieve their full potential.
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What You'll Be Doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and govern the E&M Transformation Programme, establishing appropriate governance, accountability, decision-making, programme controls, and reporting arrangements.
- Translate the approved E&M Improvement Plan into an integrated programme roadmap and drive coordinated implementation across the agreed workstreams and improvement initiatives.
- Provide overall integration and direction across the programme, ensuring organisational, operational, technical, commercial, systems, and behavioural changes are aligned and key interdependencies are effectively managed.
- Coordinate QR, RKH, subcontractor and other stakeholder interfaces, facilitating collaboration, resolving implementation barriers and ensuring agreed decisions are translated into action.
- Maintain effective programme oversight, including progress, risks, issues, dependencies, benefits and required decisions, with timely escalation of matters requiring management or executive intervention.
- Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to the Executive and programme governance forums, highlighting progress, achievements, emerging concerns, decisions required, and overall transformation outcomes.
- Ensure improvement initiatives are effectively implemented, embedded, and sustained, coordinating appropriate specialist input where required and transitioning completed changes into business-as-usual ownership.
- Coordinate the transition of completed outputs into business-as-usual ownership.
Key Deliverables
- Approved programme charter, governance plan, and task-force terms of reference.
- Integrated programme roadmap and detailed implementation plan.
- Programme RACI and decision-rights matrix; prioritised initiative portfolio.
- Consolidated resource and capacity plan, including any organisation structures.
- Programme risk, issue, dependency, and decision registers, and benefits-realisation plan.
- Monthly executive dashboard and steering committee pack.
- Stakeholder engagement and change-management plan.
- Programme closure and transition-to-business-as-usual plan.
What Required Skills You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline from an accredited university.
- Minimum of 12 years relevant experience in a similar profile within major rail projects.
- Extensive experience directing complex transformation, improvement, or change initiatives.
- Track record of delivering multiple concurrent workstreams within rail, transportation, utilities, aviation, infrastructure, or other safety-critical asset environments.
- Practical understanding of railway operations and maintenance, including maintenance delivery, engineering assurance, defect management, asset performance, and operational limitations.
- Proven ability to engage senior stakeholders, manage governance forums, and prepare executive-level reports.
- Experience in integrating operational, engineering, commercial, digital, and organizational initiatives.
- Background in metro, tram, railway concession, or operator-maintainer environments.
- Experience managing interfaces between clients, operators, maintainers, subcontractors, and other key parties.
- Knowledge of organizational design, operating-model development, or transformation following diagnostic reviews.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Asset-management or rail-industry qualification is advantageous.
Benefits
- We invest in our employees' wellbeing and offer endless growth opportunities—aim for the stars and join us on this quest!
