Job description

Senior project manager is responsible for leading large-scale infrastructure construction works, ensuring project delivery within scope, time, and budget. Oversees contractor performance, site activities, and coordination among stakeholders, consultants, and engineering teams. Ensures compliance with safety, quality, and environmental standards throughout all project phases. Manages risks, schedules, procurement strategies, and project reporting while addressing any delays or performance issues. Drives successful project completion from design through execution to handover, ensuring all contractual and operational requirements are met.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the PMC site delivery/construction team for construction works. Manage contractor performance, interface coordination, progress, risk, commercial and contractual matters.
• Ensure compliance with approved program, design, quality, HSSE, cost and reporting requirements. Coordinate with the employer, engineer, consultants, and stakeholders to ensure timely project delivery.
• Manage tasks related to infrastructure from design stage through to execution and handover phases.
• Review possible infrastructure package procurement strategies for review, discussion and implementation.
• Ensure coordination between design, construction and commercial disciplines in terms of infrastructure.
• Manage construction managers.
• Review progress and adherence to technical, safety and quality standards.
• Ensure quality standards across all works are achieved.
• Ensure that the highest levels of site safety are established, implemented and maintained.
• Ensure continual compliance with overall project delivery strategies and timescales.
• Ensure all parties perform in accordance with their contracted services and the necessary duties.
• Evaluate progress on the construction methodology and schedules for the infrastructure packages and champion any necessary mitigating actions with relevant parties in respect of cost deviations and/or time slippage.
• Review contractor’s submitted monthly reports.
• Ensure perceived project risks are communicated to the project director and delivery teams.
• Ensure the monitoring and review of consultants’ and contractors’ performance, give regular, objective feedback on progress, and deal immediately with poor performance.
• Ensure adequate risk assessments and method statements are produced, reviewed and signed off.
• Ensure project risks are timeously identified, recorded and have adequate mitigation strategy and responsibilities assigned and are fed into a central project risk register.
• Chair meetings as necessary.
• Ensure compliance with all environmental requirements and direction.
• Ensure all necessary commissioning works are undertaken, and any necessary snagging lists are actioned accordingly.
• Ensure completed works comply with standards sign off and handover protocols and standards.
• Ensure all works are coordinated with the overall project/site logistics, planning and any required modifications are implemented timeously in a proactive manner.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• Minimum 20 years’ experience in major infrastructure (roads, utilities, urban development) projects operating within the GCC region.
• A minimum of 5 years experience as a project manager delivering major roads, utilities and urban development projects.
• Strong experience in PMC/construction supervision roles, contract administration, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Preferably PMP or APM certified.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.

Additional information:

Hill International, with more than 4,300 professionals in over 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as one of the largest program management firms in the world.

Hill is exclusively a program, project, and construction management provider, meaning we have one focus as a company: protecting client interests. Free of any potential conflicts, our entire business is geared towards helping clients achieve their desired outcomes. We are dedicated to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapt to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions to meet those needs.

Hill International is an equal opportunity employer/veteran/disabled.

Note: This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role mentioned in the job title. Various other duties as required.