Operations Manager

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day scaffolding operations across Dubai and the UAE.
• Oversee material, inventory, and asset control, including stock reconciliation and loss prevention.
• Manage mobilization, installation, dismantling, dispatch, collection, and material returns.
• Optimize manpower, scaffolding materials, transport, and equipment utilization.
• Monitor productivity, costs, and resource utilization to protect margins.
• Oversee yard operations, workforce transportation, logistics, and accommodation.
• Maintain client relationships and deliver operational commitments on time.
• Drive HSE, quality, operational discipline, and compliance across yards and project sites.
• Establish KPIs and improve productivity, inventory accuracy, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years of relevant operational experience, including significant management responsibility.
• Strong background in scaffolding, construction, equipment rental, industrial services, or access solutions.
• UAE or GCC sector experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing a large workforce, ideally 100 or more personnel.
• Strong knowledge of scaffolding materials, rental operations, installation, and dismantling.
• Strong yard, inventory, asset control, and logistics management experience.
• Commercial understanding of rates, costs, productivity, utilization, and margin protection.
• Excellent English communication skills; Arabic is advantageous.
• A degree, diploma, or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction management, operations, logistics, or a related discipline is preferred.