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Ref: HP331-1235
Job description / Role
We are currently looking for an Utilco. Package Coordination Manager with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in Utilities/ Roads, Tunnels & Bridges and Car Parks projects to join our team in Saudi Arabia.
Role:
• Ensure sufficient communications take place within the team, conduct team meetings and direct actions
• Set budgets for individual disciplines and agree budget allocation with Design Manager / Design Team Leader prior to start of each design element
• Monitor the package expenditure against budgets, resources and expenses
• Monitor the package monthly forecast costs to completion and revenue
• Provide/facilitate progress information for billing purposes
• Ensure change control process is in place
• Input to Design Delivery Director on contractual issues
• Establish and monitor progress against the package programme
• Agree programme with Design Managers and Design Team Leaders including identification of key milestones
• Ensure project execution plan and QA procedures are prepared and in place at commencement of project
• Ensure quality and consistency of product
• Ensure the Project Procedures are maintained and developed
Faithful+Gould is one of the world’s leading consultancies providing integrated project and programme management services for construction and engineering projects, with a turnover in excess of £200 million.
Faithful+Gould worldwide has access to 2,300 consultants, of whom 400 are in the Middle East across six offices. We have successfully delivered commercial advice and management support for over 65 years to clients in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, UK, and North America. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Atkins Group, the design and Engineering company.
Active in the Middle East for 18 years, Faithful+Gould combines in-depth knowledge of the region with the ability to draw on our global resource and constructive expertise, to deliver the most challenging of projects. With registered companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, this makes us one of the strongest international construction consultancies in the region.
We offer an excellent package which includes:
• A competitive salary;
• Accommodation allowance;
• Transportation allowance;
• 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.
Requirements
• Degree qualified in civil engineering, preferably Chartered Engineer
• Member of a recognised professional institution
• Minimum of 15 years of postgraduate professional experience of which 5 will have been in a similar senior position within the consultancy/construction industry
• Present evidence of multi-disciplinary team management
• 5 years’ work experience either within the Middle East or on the design of Middle East projects
• Detailed knowledge of applicable international design standards across the disciplines
• Sound managerial and technical skill set
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
• Ability to liaise with a wide variety of staff and clients at all levels essential
• Be able to show Leadership skills
• Have excellent team building skills
• Fully conversant with the commercial aspects of project management
Desirable:
• Working knowledge of Health & Safety best practices in the Middle East
• Administrative skills
• Delegation skills
• Presentation skills
• Behavioural Competencies
Essential:
• Skilled negotiator and influencer
• Ability to listen and assimilate information quickly and effectively
• Self starter
• Articulate/good communicator
• Confident
• Approachable and able to motivate and inspire project management team
• Attention to detail
• Collaborative
• Seeks continuous improvement
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).