Project Manager (Hospitality / F&B Fit-Out & Openings)
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PMO * Emirates Hills Project Manager (Hospitality / F&B Fit-Out & Openings) Multiple chef-led restaurant launches. Real projects, real deadlines, real impact. If you have delivered hospitality fit-outs, you will thrive here.
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Pmo
- Emirates Hills
- Project Manager (Hospitality / F&B Fit-Out & Openings)
- Multiple chef-led restaurant launches.
- Real projects, real deadlines, real impact.
- If you have delivered hospitality fit-outs, you will thrive here.
- We are seeking multiple Project Managers to support the delivery of hospitality and F&B fit-out projects, with a particular focus on restaurant openings, site delivery, and project coordination from design through to handover and launch.
- This role is suited to someone who has gained solid early project management experience and is ready to take more ownership of live projects, while still developing under a structured PMO or senior project leadership environment.
- The ideal candidate will have experience in restaurant, hospitality, retail, or store opening projects, with direct exposure to fit-out, construction coordination, programme tracking, and operational readiness.
- Candidates with an understanding of F&B environments, particularly the practical delivery of restaurant fit-outs and openings, will be strongly preferred.
Project Delivery & Coordination
- Support and manage the day-to-day delivery of multiple fit-out and opening projects across hospitality and F&B sites
- Coordinate project activities from design development through procurement, construction, handover, and opening
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, designers, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and operations teams to keep projects moving in line with programme and budget
- Assist in driving projects through all stages of delivery, ensuring that actions, approvals, and dependencies are followed up on proactively
- Support senior project leadership in maintaining delivery standards, timelines, and reporting requirements
Fit-Out & Construction Management
- Monitor on-site progress during fit-out and construction phases
- Track contractor performance, key milestones, design issue resolution, and site readiness
- Coordinate with consultants and contractors to ensure works are aligned with approved drawings, project requirements, and delivery dates
- Identify programme risks, construction delays, incomplete information, or coordination issues and escalate them appropriately
- Support site inspections, snagging, testing, commissioning, and handover processes
Programme & Reporting
- Develop and maintain project programmes, trackers, and progress reports
- Monitor key stages including:
- Design deliverables
- Statutory and authority approvals
- Procurement and long-lead items
- Site mobilisation
- Fit-out progress
- Testing, handover, and opening readiness
- Prepare weekly and monthly project updates for PMO and management review
- Maintain action logs, risk registers, issue trackers, and project reporting dashboards
- Ensure project information is accurate, organised, and current
Budget & Commercial Support
- Track approved budgets, committed costs, variations, and forecast spend against project progress
- Support the monitoring of consultant fees, contractor payments, and project cash flow milestones
- Flag potential budget overruns, discrepancies, and cost risks to the PMO or senior project team
- Assist in maintaining CapEx summaries and payment tracking across live projects
Openings & Operational Readiness
- Support pre-opening coordination, ensuring project delivery aligns with operational launch requirements
- Work with operations and brand teams to track opening-critical items including FF&E, equipment, utilities readiness, authority sign-offs, training coordination, and final handover requirements
- Assist in ensuring that the transition from project completion to live operations is properly managed
- Support project close-out documentation and post-opening follow-up where required
Documentation & Systems
- Maintain structured project files, logs, reporting templates, and document control processes
- Ensure project records are complete and properly filed across drawings, approvals, contracts, trackers, and handover documents
- Support continuous improvement of project reporting, templates, and PMO controls
Candidate Requirements
- 3-6 years’ experience in project management, project coordination, fit-out delivery, or construction-related roles
- Proven experience supporting or managing fit-out, hospitality, restaurant, retail, or store opening projects
- Exposure to construction, interior fit-out, and site coordination
- Good understanding of project delivery stages from design through handover
- Strong programme and reporting skills, including experience with MS Project, Smartsheet, or similar planning tools
- Strong Excel skills, including trackers, cost monitoring, and reporting
- Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple moving parts across live projects
- Clear communication skills and confidence in coordinating with consultants, contractors, and internal teams
- Able to work in a structured way while remaining practical and hands-on
Preferred And Advantageous
- Experience in F&B or hospitality projects, especially restaurant fit-outs and openings
- Experience in retail rollouts, multi-site openings, or programme-based delivery
- PMP, PRINCE2, or similar project management certification
- Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Interior Design, Project Management, or a related field
- Exposure to UAE approvals, landlord coordination, and handover processes
- Familiarity with pre-opening coordination and operational readiness for hospitality sites
Profile We Are Looking For
- A practical and organised project manager with the confidence to coordinate live projects and push actions forward
- Someone who understands that restaurant and hospitality delivery requires both construction discipline and opening readiness
- Comfortable working across consultants, contractors, procurement, operations, and PMO reporting
- Keen to develop further into a stronger standalone project manager over time
- Ideally someone who has worked on restaurant, café, hospitality, or retail fit-out projects, rather than purely office or generic construction environments
- Department PMO Locations Emirates Hills Employment type Full-time
- The FAB Group we always looking passionate creative and driven individuals who share our love for great food and exceptional experiences.
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Pmo
- Emirates Hills
- Project Manager (Hospitality / F&B Fit-Out & Openings)
- Multiple chef-led restaurant launches.
- Real projects, real deadlines, real impact.
- If you have delivered hospitality fit-outs, you will thrive here.
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