Senior Project Manager - Major Highway Projects

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Doha, Qatar

Ref: NP340-27

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

The State of Qatar has been chosen to host the 2022 World Cup, creating a wide range of career opportunities for ambitious engineering professionals. The Arabian Gulf country plans to spend in excess of $100 billion in infrastructure projects between now and the Games in 2022, including roads, bridges, highways, railways, and ports. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute new transport infrastructure projects in one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

As a skilled and experienced Project Manager youll be adept at managing and leading large highways related infrastructure projects. You will have extensive experience in project management methodologies, a passion for grasping new technologies, and thrive upon thinking out of the box to develop and deliver solutions to complex engineering problems.

On a day to day basis your responsibilities will include:
Managing WSPs relationship with the client and other parties, by acting as the central point of contact.
Ensuring compliance with the Employers requirements via technical reviews.
Assisting the Clients PM in the preparation of Tender docs, evaluating tender docs and tender queries.
Managing the WSP design review team.
Planning, executing, monitoring and closing projects.
Performing quality assurance and risk management.
Managing project team members.
Project budget and scheduling estimation and management.
Conducting status review meetings with team members and clients.
Providing reports and documentation on project stage and progress.

Requirements

As well as being a great team player, to be successful in your application you'll need:

A BEng /BSc (Hons) Engineering degree at least ten years post graduate experience.
Experience and proven ability to lead and manage an engineering team on large multi-disciplinary highways and infrastructure projects.
Comprehensive experience of technical design and associated discipline software.
Member of associated Professional body.
C.Eng preferred although not essential.
Experienced user of Microsoft Office.

WSP in the Middle East is a dynamic and fast-growing business, who offers a supportive team based environment, a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and opportunities for continued training and development. If this sounds like the right place and position for you, wed love to hear from you.

About the Company

WSP and Parsons Brinckerhoff have combined and are now one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. Together we provide services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment, and our expertise ranges from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transport networks, and from developing the energy sources of the future to enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. We have approximately 32,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. We are based in more than 500 offices across 39 countries worldwide.

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