Project Director

Job description / Role

Project Director - Philippines
Tier 1 Global Contracting Firm
Outstanding Expatriate Salary Package

A Tier 1 global contracting firm, our client has secured further expressways projects and now need to appoint a Project Director to lead this project. This project comprises an elevated 6 lane expressway project valued at USD250M. This role as Project Director is responsible for the project delivery of a major expressway project to program, quality and budget.

Reporting to the Operations Manager and managing a project team, the responsibilities of this role comprises to:
• Management of all aspects of delivering a project on a major programme of expressways and infrastructure development works.
• Management of construction team to facilitate the delivery of construction, coordinating logistics, permitting, commissioning and handover activities to contractual technical, budget, schedule and quality requirements.
• Interface with the Controls and Commercial Teams to ensure coordination and reporting is of a level that assists in the timely delivery of contract deliverables.
• Monitor works to confirm, they are being carried out in accordance of the standards, policies, procedures and best practices.
• Liaise with the Engineering Team to assist in the execution of design solutions that promote constructability and value engineering.
• Monitor and report on the performance of the construction supervisors and the contractors.
• Ensure best safety practices employed during construction.
• Obtain the required support to assist in the timely payment of invoices and resolution of variations and claims.
• Ensuring that daily, weekly and monthly site records are maintained by the project team.

Requirements

• Degree qualification in Construction or Engineering is required with significant project delivery experience (15+ years) on the executive of expressways and major infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership, self-motivation and the ability to maintain a positive work environment is critical to this role.
• Strong experience in cost control and project management as well as must be able to drive projects for performance results and display proven leadership abilities.
• Experience and skills of managing major highways, projects in excess of USD200 Million.
• Candidates with expatriate experience in South East Asia or other expatriate locations will be highly regarded, although is not essential.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join our client at a time of substantial growth in and around Asia. An excellent expatriate salary package, with this highly regarded global firm, will be negotiated to attract quality candidates to this role.

About the Company

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