Project Director (Architect - Mixed Use Experience)

Kuwait

Ref: LP127-1400

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client is a reputable International Consulting Company who is now seeking a Project Director in Kuwait.

The Role:
To manage architectural/engineering design projects within the parameters of time, budget and quality. The position will customarily be supported by a Project Manager and Design Manager.

General:
- To provide leadership and direction to the Project Delivery Team ensuring timely and effective decision making
- To act as focal point for all future developments and changes proposed for current and future projects
- To ensure the effective implementation of Procedures and Best Practice in line with the requirements of the business
- Appointment and commercial management of all required sub-consultants or other services
- To carry out the day-to-day management of the Project.
- Establish and manage project scope and objectives
- Resolution of technical and commercial disputes
- Identify and manage project specific risks
- Develop and maintain internal and external communication plans and maintain responsibility for all external communication
- Coordinate the services being provided by all parties, including other Business
- Sectors and sub-consultants.

Client:
- To provide front line communication and contact with the Client effectively managing Client expectations and ensuring Client satisfaction in line with the project scope
- To provide strategic advice for the Client with respect to overall development issues
- Liaison with the Client and Project Stakeholders
- Provide the principle point of contact with the client for the delivery of the Project services, and through which other Business Sectors and sub-consultants operate.

Program:
- To coordinate an overall schedule of meetings
- To specifically ensure that workshops deliver requirements
- Ensure the quality and timeliness of service delivery to clients
- Preparation, management and implementation of the project schedule with particular emphasis on:
- Statutory Authority approvals
- Design reviews
- Efficient delivery of project milestones
- Communication with Project Stakeholders including issue of schedule where appropriate

Cost:
- Oversee claims management
- Preparation of and responsibility for performance measurement and cost reports and in particular the Monthly Project Review.
- Review deliverables against the resource and project schedules to establish performance against spend and programme to enable an accurate cost to complete to be maintained.
- Establish and maintain the administration and finance requirements through Deltek.
- Overall Financial management of the project including:
- Preparation and maintenance of the Project Cost Plan
- Cash collection
- Management of Change Control
- Maintain agreed cash flow objectives by billing in accordance with the agreement.

Scope & Quality:
- To direct policy on the standard and quality of outputs
- Preparation of the overall project brief and project management plan and manage delivery against the plan
- Ensure that contractual deliverables are produced to the quality standards required, issued on time and in compliance with the clients requirements
- Monitoring quality of the work with respect to Project/Client requirements

Reporting:
- To establish, implement and maintain a Project Reporting Plan
- Report to senior management by exception
- Chair and Issue meeting minutes of all formal project meetings with external and internal parties

Requirements

- Minimum 15 years’ experience in Project Management of the design of Hospitality and Mixed Use Development projects
- Strong building design experience gained from International Consulting Companies
- Must be a fully qualified Project Management Professional
- Experience in Middle East is a preference.
- Must possess an Architectural and/or Engineering Bachelor’s degree
- MSc / MBA degree in Construction or Project Management preferable

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions: