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Ref: NP340-35
Job description / Role
The State of Qatar has been chosen to host the 2022 World Cup, creating a wide range of career opportunities for ambitious engineering and construction professionals. The Arabian Gulf country plans to spend in excess of $100 billion on buildings and infrastructure projects between now and the Games in 2022, including stadia, hotels, tourist attractions, highways, railways, and ports. This is your chance to head up one of the most prestigious projects in Qatar, a project that will be seen by the world in 2022.
We seek a Project Director with significant experience in the successful delivery of complex and demanding multidisciplinary buildings projects. The role will require strong capabilities in project leadership and management, stakeholder management, and multi geography design delivery.
On a day to day basis your responsibilities will include:
Responsibility for the leadership and support of the project team
Ensuring that Health & Safety is embedded into all work practices in line with company policies
Ensuring the right resources are utilised effectively at the right time across their team and projects
Ensuring that the project adhere to project lifecycle and that projects led by direct reports adhere to project lifecycle
Ensuring proactive project planning, stakeholder and risk management takes place across projects
Supervising the project team to identify, assess and manage major project risk and secure the best commercial return from the project
Accountable for delivery to project P&L budgets, forecasts and working capital targets for own projects and projects led by direct reports.
Requirements
As well as being a great team player, to be successful in your application youll need:
BEng / BSc (Hon) or equivalent degree with minimum 15 years post graduate experience
Member of associated Professional body
C.Eng preferred although not essential
Experience and proven ability to lead and manage an engineering team and multi-disciplinary projects
Experience of MS Office Suite of Programmes
Comprehensive experience in associated discipline software.
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.