Project Director

Job description / Role

Faithful+Gould is one of the world’s leading consultancies providing integrated project and programme management services for construction and engineering projects, with a turnover in excess of £200 million.

Faithful+Gould worldwide has access to 2,300 consultants, of whom 400 are located in the Middle East across six offices. We have successfully delivered commercial advice and management support for over 65 years to clients in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, UK, and North America. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Atkins Group, the design and engineering company.

Active in the Middle East for 18 years, Faithful+Gould combines in-depth knowledge of the region with the ability to draw on our global resource and constructive expertise, to deliver the most challenging of projects. With registered companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, this makes us one of the strongest international construction consultancies in the region.

Due to continued success in the country, we are now seeking an experienced Project Director to join our already established team in Qatar.

Responsibilities
- Full Project Management duties
- Ensuring implementation and compliance with the Integrated Management System
- Provision of pre and post contract project control and responsibility
- Staff structure and formal routes of reporting
- Staff development appraisals
- Planning, organisation and control
- Monitoring all work executed, at all stages, to ensure that an accurate and professional service is offered to clients
- Guidance of team members in technical and contractual obligations and duties
- Professional interface with other disciplines and the client’s representative
- To ensure the high quality and timeliness of service delivery to clients
- Representation of the team
- To provide full efficient and effective services in all technical and contractual aspects of professional practice
- Preparation of fee proposals and submissions (when required)
- Effective and efficient administration and ownership of project fee accounts
- Service delivery to clients and act as primary interface, ensuring Faithful+Gould secure the client’s confidence
- Effective management of internal job costing in relation to the fee and services to be provided and of resource requirements

We offer an excellent package which includes:
- A competitive salary
- 22 calendar days annual leave (based on 5 day working week)
- Medical and life insurance cover.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus scheme.
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin.
- Employee Well-Being Programme – 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants

Requirements

- Degree holder in Quantity Surveying or Civil Engineering, from a reputable university
- Member/Fellow of RICS or similar qualification is essential.
- Minimum of 20 years of relevant project/programme management experience
- Proven ability to demonstrate the effective delivery of Project Manager duties from initial brief through delivery to final completion
- Recent experience working on large scale regeneration or development projects in the Middle East.
- Productive supervision of subordinates including adequate planning, monitoring and control
- Ability to manage a team on major/complex projects.
- Effective team control and building of team spirit/culture
- Management of resources on projects through collaboration with the Directors
- Retaining existing clients for further work and securing new clients
- Ability to represent Faithful+Gould at bid interviews
- Demonstrate an understanding of overall project requirements and the ability to advise client’s knowledgably on overall project management issues
- Demonstrate effective leadership and high commitment in order to achieve goals
- Excellent communications skills; including report writing and presentation skills

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).