Senior Vice President – Project Management

Role Overview

Senior Vice President – Project Management at Aldar Properties. This role manages overall delivery of individual property developments and infrastructure projects, while ensuring adherence to schedule, budget, quality, and HSE standards.

Role Purpose

Oversee the complete lifecycle of property development and infrastructure projects from planning through handover, ensuring all deliverables meet budget, schedule, quality, and contractual requirements while maintaining full HSE compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Team Management

• Manage project team and ensure project is completed as per budget, schedule and quality standards with all contractual requirements met.
• Manage project contracts and ensure project compliance with terms and conditions.
• Ability to manage small teams of at least 5 people.
• Perform final handover to asset operator.

Planning & Schedule Management

• Review, expand and refine initial high-level plan and budget developed by Project Control during feasibility phase against project schedule and budget.
• Ensure project is progressing according to plan and generate progress reports with support of Project Control.
• Suggest and implement modifications to project scope, deliverables, timelines and resources.
• Capable of managing project timelines, costs, and prioritize project tasks.
• Ability to plan, execute and manage tasks as per project schedule and budget.
• Ability to manage more than one project at a time; plan and execute as per project schedule and budget.

Budget & Cost Control

• Identify budget and schedule deviations, issues and risks, assess impact and define action plans in coordination with Planning and Control and seek Project Director approval.
• Proactively discourage variations and mitigate cost and schedule impact.

Quality & Constructability

• Manage all constructability issues and liaise with relevant parties to address them.
• Ability to implement and monitor QA/QC.
• Ensure onsite filing, control and maintenance of project design and execution documents.

Stakeholder & Contractor Coordination

• Coordinate activities of contractors and PMC, monitor performance, hold periodic meetings and schedule periodic on-site visits to verify status.
• Liaise with Procurement to ensure all contracts required to complete the project are in place and provide input on project scoping effort.
• Liaise with Design to assess and address design issues such as change orders.
• Follow-up with Government Relations and PMC to obtain required permits and licenses.

Design & Technical Support

• Provide input into project design phase if and when required.

Risk Management & HSE

• Identify risks by implementing Risk management plan in terms of quantifying risk, managing and monitoring/mitigating risk issues.
• Ensure project abides by HSE policies and guidelines.
• HSE champion with a proven track record.

Project Closure

• Perform project close-out and obtain stakeholder approvals.

Qualifications & Experience

Years of Experience

• Minimum 12+ years in project management with at least 5 years in senior project oversight position.
• Minimum 4+ years in a related managerial position.

Field Experience

• Proven experience managing construction for developments with CAPEX >1 billion AED.
• Knowledge and exposure to the GCC real estate market.
• Proven expertise in contractor management.

Education

• Bachelor degree in civil engineering, architecture, or equivalent.
• MBA, PMP or technical post-graduate degree is preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent project management skills.
• Full understanding of construction industry and all related technical components.
• Strong conflict resolution and management skills for resolving conflicts in the field.