Head of Buildings

Job description / Role

We are looking for Head of Building Design based in Saudi Arabia.

Responsibilities:


- Overall for the regional financial and service delivery of the Building Design Business Unit which includes Concept Design,

- Masterplanning, Architectural, Structural and MEP design teams

- Overall utilization of Building Design Business Unit projects

- PSRs performance (EBIT, Cash) of all Building Design Business Unit to the required technical standards

- Performance to approved budgets and programmes on projects budget

- Financial performance of the Building Design Business Unit in line with Work team

- Winning new work for the Business Unit in collaboration with the Win

- Staff development and recruitment to address the expected pipeline, whilst maintaining compliance with Saudisation

- Individual client utilization >50% & Compliance with Saudisation


Team management:


- Operational responsibility for the deployment of the Building Design talent pool across projects, drawing upon resources from

- RoMEA and globally to ensure target utilization.

- Line management responsibility and professional development for the Building Design leadership team

- Overall responsibility for the recruitment and retention of staff in the Building Design business unit match planned pipeline, market demand and the evolution of Building

- Manage size and composition of the Building Design team to best

- Ensure compliance with Saudisation requirements for team.

- Design services based on client needs


Project delivery:


- Responsible for PSR performance of all Building Design Business Unit client commissions (EBIT, Cash) in collaboration with relevant PDs and PMs

- Responsible for delivery to agreed budgets and programmes of all Building Design projects in collaboration with relevant PDs and PMs

- Responsible for quality delivery and client satisfaction in line with client requirements, local standards and QSSE guidelines

- Ongoing development and ownership of service delivery toolkits and responsibility for project delivery in line with best practice. Close collaboration with KSA, UAE and RoMEA team leaders to maximise consistency in ME service delivery

- Provide thought leadership to bring innovation to our design solutions

- Embrace the use of the GDC to maximise efficiencies in service delivery

- Develop and implement an improved method of design delivery utilising a Technical Professional Office approach, maximising the use of shared resource across the ME business

- Close collaboration with Technology Director and Digital Delivery

- Manager on the roll-out of digital tools and capabilities to deliver a better and more effective client service


Winning work:


- Close collaboration with Business Development Director on building a pipeline of Building Design opportunities with target client accounts in the Middle East

- Direct engagement with clients and the market on the changing needs for Building Design services and how we can best meet these via rethinking our services and how they are delivered

- Key point of contact with clients in terms of service delivery performance on projects with a view to securing repeat business

- Drive thought leadership and marketing of our Building Design services and innovations on how can support our clients, including entering for local and international awards and presenting at relevant conferences


Requirements:


- Relevant university degree, preferably in engineering or architecture.

- Relevant industry accreditation (eg. MICE or RIBA)

- 15 years of experience leading Building Design businesses

- Strong people leader with a track record of managing a diverse resource pool

- Track record of delivering strong financial results across a portfolio of projects and delivering innovative solutions

- Track record of winning new revenue in the Building Design market potential partners

- Strong market network and Middle East market profile with clients and

- Experience and the use of technology and digital tools to deliver building design commissions


Rewards & Benefits:

We offer an excellent package which includes:


- A competitive salary

- Transportation allowance

- Medical and life insurance cover

- Annual leave

- 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;


SNC Lavalin's Atkins business is one of the largest multidisciplinary, multi sector engineering design consultancies in the world and is part of the SNC Lavalin Group.

As one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies with a leading track record in the defence sector, Atkins are ideally placed to respond to this market. We have a broad establishment and proud, 50 year history throughout the Middle East region.

We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes.

Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Sharjah.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting - and then developing - brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It's precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.

Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering consultants, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.

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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).