Project Manager - Construction

Job description / Role

The incumbent is responsible for overall project planning and scheduling, resource allocation, project accounting, and control, while providing technical direction and ensuring compliance with quality standards. The project manager responsibilities span a broad spectrum, covering all the areas of project management like - Project Planning, Cost Management, Time Management, Quality Management, Contract Administration, and Safety Management.

Roles:
- Charting out the project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants.
- Bringing about optimum utilization of resources- labor, materials and equipment, and ensuring their procurement at most cost-effective terms.
- Implementation of various operations through proper coordination.
- Development of effective communications and mechanisms for resolving conflicts among the various participants.

Responsibilities:
- Oversee the construction project from start to finish.
- Perform a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed.
- Create the teams, develop the objectives/goals of each and assign individual responsibilities.
- Project accounting functions including managing the budget, tracking if team expenses and
- inimizing exposure and risk in the project
- Ensure that construction activities move according to predetermined schedule.
- Devise the project work plans and make revisions as and when need arises.
- Communicate effectively with the sub-contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project.
- Coordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, which include the architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors and laborers supplies.
- Monitor the progress of the construction activities on a regular basis and hold regular status meetings with all the sub-teams.
- Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality and safety standards.
- Ensure project documents are complete.
- Identify the elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims.
- Serve as a key link with the clients and review the deliverable prepared by the team before passing onto client.

Requirements

- Ability to plan and organize a team effort.
- Good client management and goodwill building ability.
- Capacity to motivate, lead and boost morale of the teams.
- Effective time management and logical decision-making ability.
- Capacity to handle pressure.
- Willingness to travel across the construction sites.
- Strong focus on quality.

Knowledge and Skills Required:
- A four-year Bachelor's degree in civil engineering. A postgraduate degree in construction management is an added advantage.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in UAE/GCC in construction projects.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Good understanding of MEP building systems.
- Thorough knowledge of legal issues and safety standards is essential.

About the Company

Kele Contracting has established an impressive portfolio of projects built upon the success of the parent companies.

Our expertise includes the construction of large-scale, low-rise and high-rise residential developments, commercial projects and complexes. Kele also has extensive experience in the hospitality and leisure industry, having constructed landmark holiday resorts and amusement parks benefiting numerous tourist destinations.

Sporting venues have historically been one of Kele’s specialties as demonstrated in the run up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, when Kele was appointed as the contractor for a series of purpose-built sporting venues. Kele has constructed a wide variety of civic buildings - hospitals, libraries and police stations across Australia.