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 multidisciplinary teams, and ensure delivery on schedule and budget.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of major infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives and quality standards
- Act as primary point of contact for clients, government authorities, stakeholders, consultants, and contractors
- Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary project teams
- Establish and oversee project governance, delivery strategies, execution plans, and reporting frameworks
- Drive commercial performance by managing budgets, forecasts, change management, claims, and financial outcomes
- Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and opportunities
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory requirements
- Lead project planning, scheduling, and resource management to achieve key milestones
- Oversee procurement strategies, contractor performance, and consultant coordination
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, identifying opportunities for additional work
- Lead negotiations on scope changes, commercial matters, and project variations
- Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to executive leadership and clients
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related technical discipline
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, or civil engineering projects
- Significant experience in a Project Director or senior leadership capacity
- Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary project teams on complex, high value infrastructure programmes
- Strong commercial acumen with proven experience managing project financial performance, contracts, claims, and risk
- Extensive knowledge of project delivery methodologies, engineering practices, construction management, and industry standards
- Proven ability to manage executive level client relationships and engage with government authorities
- Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and decision making skills
- Experience developing project execution plans, delivery strategies, governance frameworks, and programme reporting
- Thorough understanding of health, safety, quality, and environmental management systems
- Professional registration (PE, CEng, PMP, or equivalent) is preferred
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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 from planning through closeout.
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.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of progressive experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, or civil engineering projects, including significant experience in a Project Director or senior leadership capacity.
- Demonstrated experience leading large, multidisciplinary project teams on complex, high value infrastructure programmes.
- Strong commercial acumen with proven experience managing project financial performance, contracts, claims, and risk.
- Extensive knowledge of project delivery methodologies, engineering practices, construction management, and industry standards.
- Proven ability to manage executive level client relationships and successfully engage with government authorities and key stakeholders.
- Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and decision making skills.
- Experience developing project execution plans, delivery strategies, governance frameworks, and programme reporting.
- Thorough understanding of health, safety, quality, and environmental management systems.
- Professional registration (PE, CEng, PMP, or equivalent) is preferred.
- Proven ability to lead high performing teams while delivering projects safely, on time, within budget, and to exceptional quality standards.
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