Project Manager

About the Role
The successful candidate will have extensive experience managing large, complex capital projects within the oil & gas, energy, petrochemical, infrastructure, or industrial sectors. The role requires strong leadership, strategic project management capabilities, and the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.

Initially, the position will be based in the project office, with frequent visits to the construction site to monitor progress, interface with construction teams, and ensure alignment between project planning and site execution. As the project progresses into its major construction and execution phase, the position will transition to a full-time site-based assignment.

The Project Manager will have overall responsibility for project performance, ensuring delivery in accordance with contractual requirements, approved budgets, schedules, quality standards, HSE requirements, and client expectations.

Job Objective:
To provide overall leadership, direction, and management of a mega-scale EPCM project in Abu Dhabi, ensuring its successful execution and delivery in accordance with contractual obligations, approved project budgets, schedules, technical specifications, quality standards, and HSE requirements. The Project Manager will lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, and commissioning, ensuring effective coordination, stakeholder management, and timely resolution of project challenges. The role will initially be based at the project office, with regular visits to the construction site, before transitioning to a full-time site-based assignment as the project progresses into its main construction and execution phase.

Responsibilities

• Assume overall responsibility for the successful execution and delivery of the EPCM project, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, approved project procedures, and client requirements.
• Establish project objectives, execution strategies, governance structures, and performance targets in alignment with the overall project requirements.
• Lead and manage multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, quality, HSE, and commissioning.
• Oversee engineering deliverables, ensuring technical compliance, quality, coordination between disciplines, and timely completion.
• Manage procurement activities, including material requisitions, technical bid evaluations, purchase orders, vendor documentation, expediting, and timely delivery of critical equipment and materials.
• Ensure effective coordination between engineering, procurement, and construction teams to minimize delays and resolve project execution bottlenecks.
• Initially manage project execution from the Abu Dhabi project office, maintaining regular engagement with the construction site and conducting frequent site visits to assess progress and address execution challenges.
• Provide leadership and direction to site management and construction teams, ensuring construction activities are executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, method statements, and project schedules.
• Oversee construction planning, resource mobilization, subcontractor performance, site productivity, work fronts, and construction logistics.
• Ensure effective implementation of project controls, planning, scheduling, cost control, and progress measurement systems.
• Monitor project performance against approved budgets, baseline schedules, and key milestones, identifying potential delays, cost overruns, and execution risks while implementing appropriate mitigation and recovery measures.
• Manage project forecasts, cash flow, resource requirements, and productivity trends, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to senior management and the client.
• Ensure compliance with the EPCM contract, scope of services, and contractual deliverables, including the effective management of variations, change orders, claims, and commercial risks.
• Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance against contractual obligations and work closely with commercial and contracts teams to manage contractual exposure.
• Demonstrate visible leadership and commitment to HSE, ensuring compliance with applicable UAE regulations, client requirements, and project-specific safety standards.
• Ensure the implementation of project quality management systems, inspection requirements, and applicable technical standards.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks, developing appropriate mitigation plans and monitoring their effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the client, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and relevant authorities.
• Lead project review meetings, progress meetings, and executive-level reporting sessions, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution of project issues.
• Manage interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations to ensure seamless project execution.
• Oversee preparation for system completion, pre-commissioning, commissioning and handover, ensuring construction completion activities align with commissioning priorities.
• Drive punch-list management, as-built documentation, final handover deliverables, and timely project close-out in accordance with contractual and client requirements.
• Transition to a full-time site-based role as the project enters its principal construction and execution phase, assuming direct leadership of all site execution activities.

Qualifications
Skills and Qualifications
What makes you remarkable?
At the company, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Typically 20+ years of experience in project execution, with significant experience managing large-scale Oil & Gas, LNG, Petrochemical, Energy, Infrastructure, or Industrial projects.
• Proven experience leading projects through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles, contract administration, risk management, cost control, and scheduling.
• Experience working in EPC/PMC project environments.
• Strong understanding of HSE, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams and contractors.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools and reporting systems.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-SP, or Chartered Engineer are highly desirable.