Project Manager - High Rise Construction

Job description / Role

Project Manager - High Rise Construction (QATAR)

We are looking to hire a Project Manager with High Rise Tower Construction Experience.

Work for one of Qatar's largest local construction companies which will become one of the country’s biggest developers.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, we are to hire a Project Manager for the complete implementation of a high rise tower project - 2B+G+1+30

Please read the description carefully. Only applicants matching most requirements below with a solid Project Manager experience in vertical structures will be considered.

This application is through LinkedIn, Please ensure your LinkedIn profile is up to date as you will be reviewed as soon as your application is in.

PROJECT MANAGER - HIGH RISE CONSTRUCTION - REPORTS TO OPERATIONS MANAGER

The Project Manager has overall management authority at the work site for delivering a construction project from conception until it is safely completed / handover on time as per specifications within budget up to the client’s satisfaction and in compliance with the project contract.

Duties and responsibilities
- Facilitate a strong client relationship and deliver overall construction services in a professional manner.
- Study the project documentations (Contract, BOQ, Drawings)
- To participate in the selection of subcontractors and to follow up, monitor and control their performance
- Manage the construction phases of the project, from initiation to handover.
- Understand high-rise construction vertical phases. Understand vertical construction engineering with little supervision and advice.
- Understand vertical engineering safety procedures.
- Understand construction drawings, direct the project team to control project activities.
- Control subcontractor responsibilities and ensure work subcontractor work is in accordance with the approvals attained and project deliverables.
- Understand the design build delivery method. Manage the design process with the requirements of the customer while maintaining the budget.
- Understand the hard bid process and assist the estimating department when required.
- Provide Value Engineering to a project as needed for appropriate cost control.
- Produce and maintain in a timely manner all Requests for Information, Submittals, Architectural Supplemental Instructions, Drawings, Specifications, Proposal Requests, Change Order Requests, and all respective logs of each.
- Provide subcontractor evaluation and qualification through our prequalification process for hire on the project
- Conduct subcontractor, owner, and architectural meetings regularly, and provide meeting minutes for each occurrence timely.
- Manage to generate weekly project status reports and monthly owner reports, including photographs, detailed logs, summary of weekly reports, and cash flow reports.
- Assist in the negotiation and creation of subcontractor contracts, including exhibits, scopes of work, staging plans, weather clauses, budgets, exclusions, etc.
- Negotiate the value of work with the subcontractor community, create scopes of work, subcontracts, and purchase orders for the project.
- Comply and contractually manage change requests, change orders, subcontractor change orders, and pay applications as well as maintaining the appropriate logs.
- Establish and maintain a project schedule utilizing the Critical Path Method and update the schedule weekly showing delays and progress made to the schedule.
- Be able to manage the planning team to pin point delays specific to the project construction.
- Able to control resources and manpower with numbers exceeding 1000 workers and staff.
- Track via the schedule all submittals, material expediting, commissioning and critical milestone dates.
- Perform the buyout and generate submittals as well as maintaining the appropriate logs.
- Assure three week look-ahead, daily reports, and weekly safety reporting is appropriately administered by the superintendents throughout the project.
- Perform monthly PM safety inspections and submit the safety inspection reports. Understand the needs and requirements of a safe project, and promote the well-being of those
- performing the work.
- Coordinate with the Authorities Having Jurisdiction for permits, civil defense, municipality, and utility permits as necessary.
- Perform and assist in punch list inspections, commissioning, commissioning reporting, obtaining warranty and closeout documentation including as-built drawings and provide both hard and electronic copies for submission.
- Able to evaluate and understand plans, specifications, soils reports, engineering requirements, testing, and third party obligations.
- Manage the quality control evaluation process throughout the project, and assure all superintendent’s reports are updated.
- Have a technical proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and Primavera P6.
- Provide monthly cost to complete project evaluations and review with management the project status.
- PMP Certification considered an asset

Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or Equivalent. Post-Secondary Education is an asset
- Strong Construction Management Experience - Vertical Projects
- 10 Years + of overall Strong Construction and Project Management Rolls
- PMP Certificate considered an asset
- Strong assertive and leadership personality, able to understand, implement, defend the contractual requirements of the project
- Self-motivated, motivating the project team to keep productivity of staff and workers as high as possible
- Excellent communication skills, able to know when to be strict based on the situation.
- Professional designation in a western country an asset.
- Qatar Engineer registration is a must and will have to be attained within 3 months of joining.
- Willing to dedicate more time to the project beyond regular work hours when needed.
- Construction Law knowledge an asset.
- Qatar Construction Specifications Knowledge an Asset
- Professional Engineering Status in a Western Jurisdiction an Asset
- Qatar Engineering Registration Required with No.1 Standing
- Over 10 years of Experience a must
- GCC experience considered an asset

About the Company

Who we are... Transline Technical are a refreshingly different engineering and technical focused global recruitment company, with offices in 6 countries, over 120 locations. Our group has been successfully satisfying clients needs for over 20 years and maintain a firm yet simple belief, that the staff selection process, should be uncomplicated, consultative, offered on a quality not quantity basis and a high level of relevant communication should be considered as a rule and not the exception.

Keeping our promises and more... Our journey of local and international success is based wholeheartedly around delivering on our promises and providing excellent solutions on permanent and temporary staffing challenges. We are proven, not only to consistently meet our clients requirements but more often than not, exceed them... It is clearly understood from day 1 of any assignment, or project, that all requirements have their own very distinctive characteristics and are always treated that way.... Simply, we listen, we act, we deliver.

Experienced & committed... The exceptional Transline team, is made up of well balanced international, highly skilled, industry relevant-specific experienced individuals, who collectively have over 20 years professional exposure across the Middle East in the fields of Construction, Energy, Water and Power. All consultants have spent many years in the region, possess a deep understanding of the often diverse business cultures and associated expectations therein.

Not just \"another recruiter\"... Taking the time to build clear and transparent relationships with our clients and candidates is also high on the list of priorities for all at Transline, as we want to be there for the long term and not just the easy win. The ultimate goal is to keep candidates well informed of new opportunities, updated on any progress and our valued clients, suitably abreast of who’s currently in the market for consideration, or how their particular industry is trending in terms of salary and workforce availability.

And there\'s more... Most importantly, our consultants are experts in what they do and committed to getting the job done, whilst always maintaining a close eye on the time/delivery requirement set by the client.