Construction Director - PMO

Overview

Job Description

Construction Director

What You'Ll Be Doing

• Lead program-wide construction integration across multiple zones/packages, acting as the senior interface between PMO, PMCMs, contractors, and client stakeholders
• Drive construction governance frameworks, execution strategies, and performance control systems in alignment with PMO mandates
• Provide executive oversight of contractor performance, progress, and recovery strategies, ensuring alignment with approved program baselines
• Take ownership of program-level construction risk identification, escalation, and mitigation, particularly across interfaces and dependencies
• Lead multi-party coordination across PMCMs, designers, contractors, and stakeholders to resolve integration delivery issues and constraints
• Oversee and validate construction reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and executive-level updates to support informed client decision-making
• Ensure consistency of construction delivery approaches across all packages, including logistics strategies, sequencing, and phasing
• Provide strategic direction on delay mitigation and recovery planning, challenging contractor methodologies where required
• Champion QA/QC, HSE, and compliance assurance at program level, ensuring systems—not just outputs—are robust and auditable
• Act as a senior escalation point for non-performance, non-conformances, and systemic delivery failures across the program
• Support procurement and tender evaluation strategies from a constructability, phasing, and delivery risk perspective
• Contribute to value engineering and buildability optimization, ensuring alignment with cost, schedule, and design intent

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• Minimum 20 years of experience in delivering buildings and infrastructure construction.
• Proven track record in delivering complex theaters, large public venues
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent knowledge of construction methodologies, contract management, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience working in high-profile or government-led development programs is a plus.
• PMP or similar certification is advantageous.

Skills & Competencies

• Must demonstrate Project Director-level leadership, managing large multidisciplinary teams across multiple zones/packages
• Must demonstrate experience operating in a PMO / client-side integrator role, managing performance and outcomes without direct contractual control
• Proven ability to drive program delivery, commercial outcomes, and stakeholder alignment
• Strong background in strategic planning, sequencing, and risk mitigation on mega projects
• Experience interfacing directly with senior client stakeholders and executive leadership
• Ability to establish and lead integrated site delivery strategies across civils, infrastructure, and landscape works
• Extensive experience delivering mega-scale urban development, public realm, or landscape-led infrastructure projects
• Proven track record in complex, multi-package construction environments with significant interface management (civils, utilities, infrastructure, landscape, and vertical elements)
• Strong background in civil engineering and infrastructure works (roads, utilities, earthworks, drainage, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in hard and soft landscaping delivery at scale, including integration with wider urban infrastructure
• Experience working within live, high-profile environments with demanding stakeholders and accelerated delivery timelines
• Ability to manage and coordinate multiple PMCM's
• Deep understanding of construction logistics, site phasing, and access strategies for major projects
• Strong focus on health, safety, environmental, and quality leadership in large workforce environments
• Experience working in the Middle East (preferably KSA) or similar regulatory and climatic conditions is highly desirable
• Capability to operate within client-side or PMCM environments, ensuring governance, reporting, and performance management at a senior level
• Proven ability to operate within a high-accountability PMO environment where responsibility for outcomes exceeds direct authority, requiring strong leadership, influence, and stakeholder management skills
• Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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