About the Role
In a world of possibilities, this role offers endless opportunities to lead and innovate. As a Project Director, you will play a crucial role in planning, design, and engineering delivery of significant development projects. You will provide strategic and technical leadership across master planning, infrastructure, buildings, and multidisciplinary engineering, ensuring that projects align with client objectives, quality standards, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
Ready to apply for roles like this?
Unlock the company name and direct application link. Subscribers get instant access to fresh jobs across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, many with visa support.
Unlock employer & apply directly
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the delivery of master planning, infrastructure, building design, and multidisciplinary engineering services.
- Manage multidisciplinary teams across architecture, urban planning, civil, structural, utilities, transportation, MEP, landscape, and specialist disciplines.
- Oversee projects from master planning and concept design through detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.
- Ensure effective integration of buildings, infrastructure, utilities, mobility, public realm, and site-wide systems.
- Establish project governance, design strategies, technical standards, schedules, budgets, and delivery priorities.
- Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability assessments, technical coordination, and resolution of key design issues.
- Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and client requirements.
- Manage design consultants and specialist subconsultants, ensuring quality, schedule, and technical performance.
- Build strong relationships with clients, developers, authorities, consultants, and key stakeholders.
- Promote BIM, GIS, digital engineering, and data-driven design coordination across the project.
- Identify and manage design risks, interfaces, changes, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead, mentor, and develop project and design teams, promoting a collaborative and high-performance culture.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.
- 20+ years of experience in major master planning, infrastructure, building, or large-scale development projects.
- Proven experience as a Project Director, Design Director, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior leadership role.
- Strong experience managing multidisciplinary teams across master planning, architecture, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, and building engineering.
- Comprehensive understanding of the design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, tender, and construction support.
- Strong knowledge of design management, technical governance, project controls, risk, commercial management, and stakeholder coordination.
- Excellent leadership, client management, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Experience delivering major master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, infrastructure programs, or complex building portfolios in the United Arab Emirates or the Middle East.
- Knowledge of regional planning, authority approvals, design codes, and utility requirements.
- Experience integrating master planning, buildings, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and public realm.
- Professional certification such as PMP, PE, CEng, RIBA, or equivalent is preferred.
The company promotes diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. We invest in our employees' wellbeing and provide numerous growth opportunities, encouraging all to aim high and continue their professional journey with us.
