About the Company

Excellent career opportunity with a leading design studio that is currently actively engaged in numerous Middle East locations on the most prestigious project scopes. An opportunity to develop your career with a progressive team on exciting regional projects, whilst embracing local culture. 

About the Role

This role requires an experienced and motivated individual with a strong background in landscape and infrastructure, capable of managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and fast track programs ensuring technical competence and professional best practice as he leads all phases of project delivery, including coordination with third parties, stakeholder management, authority liaison, and integration with adjoining works.  

The Project Manager will serve as the key point of contact between the internal team, consultants, and the Client—ensuring that all project objectives are achieved efficiently and to the highest professional standards. 

About You

The ideal candidate should have previous experience in landscape and related infrastructure projects with high level of client relationship management.  

This position requires professional ability and inherent motivation.  Required to lead a team responsible for managing all technical aspects of the project including technical interfaces with third parties, stakeholder management, programme management, liaising with authorities, integration of works with adjoining projects, excellent skills in presenting and controlling technical matters. Act as a focal point between the team, consultants, and the Client, ensuring the desired project objectives are delivered. Must have adequate knowledge and information about the business and the project to make informed value-add decisions for both the Client and the Company. 

The role will include: 

• Participate in studying business opportunities including preparing level of efforts estimates and technical methodologies 

• Lead and manage projects. This shall include but not limited to the day to day management of project activities, client relationships, resources management and technical input and financial management. 

• Ensure best practice in the company’s project delivery methods 

• Ensure delivery of projects within time and budget. Ensure meeting client expectations to promote continuous business from known clients.  

• Manage the project contractually and ensure scope and cost management as per best practices. 

• Manage the permitting activity with local authorities. This shall include personal involvement as well as coaching and guiding of others within the company to achieve smooth and quick permitting. 

• Identify personnel needs for project requirements in the process of developing project plans, help HR in identifying and interview qualified project team candidates. 

• Involve in project onboarding processes and other essential project training needs as well. 

• Coach junior project managers and elevate team morale.  Provide leadership by building project teams and motivating them to hit project milestones. Building and training project teams to expand their capabilities by establishing best practices, policies, PM methodologies, quality assurance and control, tools, and templates. 

Contact

Shane Shewan
+447490638106
shane@locri.co.uk