Project Director (Infrastructure)
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About the Role
Parsons seeks a highly experienced Project Director to lead large-scale infrastructure projects in Abu Dhabi. You will oversee the full project lifecycle, manage client relationships, and drive commercial performance.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of major infrastructure projects
- Act as primary client contact and manage stakeholder relationships
- Oversee project governance, delivery strategies, and reporting
- Drive commercial performance including budgets, forecasts, and change management
- Identify and manage project risks and opportunities
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards
- Lead project planning, scheduling, and resource management
- Mentor and develop project managers and teams
Requirements
- Highly experienced in large scale infrastructure project delivery
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams
- Strong commercial and financial management skills
- Excellent client and stakeholder management
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Job Description
- Parsons is seeking a highly experienced and results driven Project Director to join our team in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- You will provide strategic leadership for the successful delivery of large scale infrastructure projects, overseeing the full project lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the end to end delivery of major infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives, contractual requirements, and Parsons' quality standards.
- Act as the primary point of contact for clients, government authorities, stakeholders, consultants, and contractors throughout project execution.
- Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.
- Establish and oversee project governance, delivery strategies, execution plans, and reporting frameworks.
- Drive commercial performance by managing project budgets, forecasts, change management, claims, and overall financial outcomes.
- Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and opportunities to ensure successful delivery.
- Ensure compliance with all health, safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements across the project.
- Lead project planning, scheduling, and resource management to achieve key milestones and programme objectives.
- Oversee procurement strategies, contractor performance, and consultant coordination throughout the project lifecycle.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders while identifying opportunities for additional work and long term partnerships.
- Lead negotiations relating to scope changes, commercial matters, and project variations with clients and key delivery partners.
- Monitor project progress, performance metrics, and key deliverables, providing regular updates to executive leadership and clients.
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