About the Role
Join a dynamic team as a Senior Design Manager where you will lead design teams responsible for delivering complex infrastructure and land development projects across Dubai and the wider region. This role provides an exciting opportunity to work with exceptional professionals, cultivate innovation, and contribute to meaningful projects.
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What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead Design Managers and multidisciplinary teams of designers and BIM engineers in the delivery of complex land development projects.
- Liaise with clients and relevant authorities to manage large and medium-sized projects across the private and public sectors.
- Provide design direction and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, including roads, wet and dry utilities, master planning, landscape, structural, and architectural design disciplines.
- Mentor and develop Design Managers and Design Leads, ensuring they are trained in design management principles.
- Coordinate and collaborate with Project Managers and Project Directors on all design-related activities, including schedule preparation, technical proposals, and financial planning.
What Required Skills You’ll Bring:
- Typically 10+ years of related professional experience, including supervisory and managerial responsibilities.
- Proven ability to perform effectively in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Thorough knowledge of current engineering technologies, industry practices, and applicable regulations.
- Strong understanding of the capabilities and efficiencies of engineering techniques and technologies relevant to design assignments.
What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong report-writing and technical proposal preparation skills.
- Knowledge of local authority standards, regulations, and procedures.
- Experience managing complex greenfield and brownfield development projects.
Benefits:
- Endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit.
- A supportive working environment that values people, embraces agility, and fosters growth.
