Project Manager - Infrastructure - Arabic Speaker

Job description / Role

Project Manager - Infrastructure - Arabic Speaker - Abu Dhabi

Experienced Project Manager to be based in Abu Dhabi. Must be Arabic-speaking, and have infrastructure experience on major live projects, and managing a multi-national team in a Project Manager role.

The successful candidate will:
- Review the tender drawings and the project plan
- Arrange the log sheet for materials and drawings and ensure it is submitted on time to the consultant/client
- Follow-up with the drafting department for review of shop drawings before submission
- Evaluates the quantities, check the cash flow plan and request the quantities as per the project plan (partial delivery)
- Follow-up with the local authorities for temporary and permanent approval
- Arrange for monthly payments and monitor the store facility
- Ensure that long lead items are ordered on time
- Review the coordination of all works, and follow-up with the activities and resources at project site
- Attend meetings (consultants/client/sub-contractors/management) and distribute the work to other staff (Engineers/Drafting/Documentation)
- Prepares project execution schedule, labour histogram and progress reports on as needed basis. Ensure reports demonstrating S curve is prepared.
- Provides technical support to project engineers, supervisors and other technical staff.
- Monitors performance of project team for quality, schedule and productivity, and takes necessary action for improvement, if needed.
- Ensures timely completion of the project within (or better than) budget and hand over the project to client within the stipulated time.
- Performs regular inspections and site visits to project sites to assess the progress of each project.
- Follow up with all variations

Requirements

- Technical Bachelor degree qualification, ideally linked to project or construction management
- Minimum of 10-12 years of experience in a similar position within construction industry
- At least 5 years work experience within the GCC
- Ability to liaise with a wide variety of staff and Clients at all levels
- Computer literate in the essential MS software, i.e. Word, Excel
- Good knowledge of construction techniques and terminology

About the Company

At NSR we pride ourselves on market knowledge, integrity, loyalty and professionalism. Through personal relationships and knowledge of what our clients look for in specific requirements we like to pride ourselves on matching people to the right role.

The partners at NSR have always dealt with people in an open and honest manner and as a company we are driven to find the right opportunity for people enhancing their career where ever this may be worldwide.

We work on the principal that every person we deal with is a potential client, this process has proved beneficial for us as there are many people we have dealt with on the International circuit that have approached NSR Associates to recruit for them as a client after we have worked on their behalf as a candidate.