This position has the overall responsibility for the successful conclusion of construction projects. They oversee project managers, who coordinate teams to ensure that work is completed on time and within budget, to a high standard.
The candidate will accomplish these tasks through a team of project managers, who will work with their Project teams, Technical Consultants, Sub-Contractors and Corporate HQ to meet clients’ needs. The Project Director provides leadership to strategically manage risk, monitor finances and ensure each phase of work is started or completed on time.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Monitoring build progress, overseeing finance and ensuring project quality
- Making strategic decisions and providing leadership and direction to project managers to implement those decisions
- Meeting with clients, stakeholders and project managers to report on project progress
- Liaising with clients and building strong working relationships
- Devising cost-effective plans to enable effective project completion
- Managing risks to avoid delays or reputational damage
- Ensuring permits and legal papers are secured ahead of the project
- Managing project managers and enabling them to supervise and manage their own teams
- Working in an office and on a construction site.
- Perform monthly budget cost review and cost monitoring across projects to ensure that cost are well managed and within budget.
- Performs tender adjudication on tender awards put up by Project teams as part of due diligence to ensure prices are competitive and all transactions are done above board with proper justification - to safeguard the company against any possible loss of profits, reputation, etc.
- Conduct analysis and review of tender costings by project tender teams to ensure that all potential risk, specified requirement were adequately addressed and provided for.
Qualifications & Experience
1. Bachelor of Science in Construction Management or Bachelor of Civil Engineering.
2. Professional Engineer qualification preferred
3. At least 15 years of Project Management experience
Preferred Skills & Characteristics
1. Excellent communication and influencing skills including negotiating and contracting.
2. Experience in developing and managing project staff.
3. Good level networking and liaison skills and the provide ability to meet deadlines and targets.
4. Good team work skills actively
5. Involves colleagues across the business, builds the benefits of collaborative working.
6. Self-developer – acts as a role model, invests time in their own development and encourages others
