Projects Manager - playpath14

About the Role
The primary objective of this role is to ensure effective project delivery and construction readiness across assigned assets, projects, and packages. This includes managing various project delivery activities while ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, internal policies, and quality assurance standards. The role focuses on monitoring site progress, coordinating with contractors and consultants, managing interfaces, overseeing testing and handover processes, and maintaining comprehensive project records.

Core Responsibilities

Project Delivery and Construction Readiness

• Manage project delivery activities across assigned assets, projects, packages, or site areas within the business unit.
• Review construction readiness inputs, including design information, procurement status, permits, logistics plans, technical submissions, and site access requirements.
• Ensure delivery activities are aligned with approved design, schedule, budget, quality, governance, health and safety environment (HSE), and project execution requirements.
• Evaluate construction readiness inputs to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, or issues requiring clarification before execution.

Site Progress, Quality, and Compliance

• Monitor site progress, construction sequencing, critical path activities, workforce deployment, and delivery constraints across assigned projects or packages.
• Review site reports, inspection records, technical submissions, non-conformance records, and corrective action updates to identify delivery risks or quality concerns.
• Ensure construction activities comply with approved specifications, standards, regulatory requirements, project controls, and applicable governance requirements.
• Follow-up on site issues, quality observations, delayed actions, and unresolved construction matters with project teams, consultants, and contractors.

Contractor, Consultant, and HSE Follow-up

• Monitor performance of contractors, subcontractors, construction supervision consultants, project management consultants, and delivery partners within the assigned scope.
• Review contractor progress reports, consultant observations, HSE records, method statements, risk assessments, permits, and incident-related inputs.
• Ensure contractor and consultant activities are aligned with contractual expectations, delivery requirements, HSE controls, quality standards, and agreed project milestones.
• Follow-up on contractor actions, consultant responses, HSE findings, performance issues, and corrective actions requiring closure or escalation.

Interface, Testing, and Handover Coordination

• Manage delivery interfaces across design, commercial, project controls, procurement, operations, asset management, infrastructure, utilities, and other relevant workstreams.
• Review interface trackers, dependency logs, authority requirements, testing inputs, commissioning plans, completion evidence, and handover documentation.
• Ensure testing, commissioning, snagging, defect close-out, authority approval, and handover readiness activities are coordinated with relevant stakeholders.
• Follow-up on readiness gaps, interface actions, completion risks, and handover requirements with project teams, contractors, consultants, and receiving parties.

Project Records, Reporting, and Team Supervision

• Develop project delivery trackers, action logs, progress summaries, readiness dashboards, and reporting inputs for assigned assets, projects, packages, or site areas.
• Consolidate project progress updates, site observations, open actions, risks, HSE inputs, quality records, and supporting evidence for management review.
• Ensure project records, review comments, action trackers, completion evidence, and handover documentation are accurate, organized, and traceable.
• Supervise assigned team members or project support resources to ensure project reviews, records, and reporting outputs are completed accurately and on time.

Generic Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Manage the implementation of the department strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational vision and mission, identifying potential risks, and monitoring their impact on functions.

Policies, Processes, and Procedures

• Ensure effective implementation of the policies and procedures framework for the department, fostering proactive identification of opportunities to improve business operations and enhance service quality.

Stakeholder Management

• Manage the implementation of a comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategy for the department, identifying key stakeholders, developing communication channels, tracking effectiveness, and recommending necessary adjustments.

Budget

• Oversee the department’s budgeting process, analyzing financial data to identify variances, supporting forecasts, and ensuring compliance with all financial reporting regulations and internal policies.

Change Management

• Ensure continuous improvement of department systems, processes, and practices by analyzing existing systems to identify inefficiencies and implementing solutions.

People Management

• Translate strategic direction into actionable plans, collaborating with stakeholders to develop SMART goals that align across units and managing the overall talent management cycle.

Reports

• Manage the development of a comprehensive reporting process for the department, guiding staff on the reporting process, ensuring adherence to reporting requirements.

Additional Duties

• This job description outlines typical duties performed; management may assign additional tasks as necessary.

Requirements

Knowledge Minimum Qualifications

• Preferred: Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related field.
• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Professional certifications or memberships with recognized institutes in engineering, construction, project management, quantity surveying, or built environment are preferred.

Skills

• Fluency in written and verbal English; proficiency in Arabic preferred.
• Ability to analyze operational data and support decision-making, identifying issues and improving processes and outcomes.
• Experience coordinating with internal stakeholders to ensure activity execution and team alignment.
• Strong management of team activities with attention to detail and quality assurance.
• Knowledgeable in project delivery, construction management, contractor oversight, site logistics, HSE, quality control, testing, and commissioning.
• Ability to apply project delivery judgment to review construction progress and contractor performance.
• Understanding procurement readiness, construction sequencing, interface management, authority approvals, and operational readiness.
• Detail-oriented in reviewing project documentation and reports.

Experience

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in project delivery, construction management, project management, infrastructure delivery, real estate development, mixed-use development, or related fields, including supervisory or managerial experience in large-scale construction and real estate environments.