We have an excellent opportunity with the UAE's design & fit out contractor. Due to recent contract awards, we have been commissioned to recruit an experienced senior fit out project manager. 

The Company
Our client is a well-established market leader within construction & fit out in the UAE They specialise in high end, luxury projects within the commercial & hospitality sector in the UAE.

The Candidate
The ideal candidate would be talented and experienced in their field (10 years+) with a proven track record of project delivery on high end/value projects. Commercial & hospitality projects.

Career driven - you must be a highly motivated, self-starter individual, with a drive to succeed & progress in your career.

Key Attributes: Long term vision, customer focussed, solutions driven, excellent communicator.
Must have worked for reputable, market leading contractors in the UK or Europe.

UAE project experience is essential

Job Summary
As part of the site management team the Works/Section Manager perform a technical, organizational and supervisory role to ensure that the works are constructed in compliance with technical, quality, safety and program requirements and within budget.

Works/Section Manager also plans and establishes procedures and methods by which staff must abide when performing tasks. He also reviews production reports on a regular basis and implements corrective actions, if necessary.

Duties
You will be responsible and accountable for providing project direction to ensure the safe, successful, cost efficient and timely delivery of a variable number of projects at any time, enabling and providing as necessary, effective risk management and problem resolution.
 
To oversee, provide coaching and personal input to client, professional and supplier relationships for assigned projects, ensuring development of skills for their team.
 
To ensure adequate resources for the assigned projects, ensuring appropriate levels of skill, especially for design and engineering, facilitating skills transference with the assigned project team staff to develop their recruitment, selection and resourcing capability.
 
To provide guidance and to personally manage, as appropriate, risk and client and professional expectations through early identification of issues from project reporting, project meetings and other inputs.
 
To proactively set health & safety standards and culture for all assigned projects and to take appropriate action where necessary to reduce safety risk.
 
Key accountabilities

Winning Work:

• Select, with divisional leadership, appropriate skills to prepare and lead proposals and presentations to win projects.
• Ensure that bid teams are fully briefed and also debriefed, sharing learning and feedback with the team and divisional leadership.

Effective Resourcing:

• Plan skill requirements for assigned projects, managing and personally working with the project teams to recruit and select quality employees within budget and headcount (permanent and where necessary, agency or freelance), adhering to company recruitment and selection processes and agency preferred suppliers.

Project Set-up and Close-Out:

• Direct timely, quality and cost efficient set up for all assigned projects, ensuring that meeting and reporting documentation and schedules are implemented from the outset and are in accordance with company Best Practice.
• Ensure set-up is linked to close-out in terms of establishing quality processes, problem resolution and snagging with focus on alignment of cost, scope and timescale from project start-up.

Best Practice Health & Safety:

• Proactively monitor project health & safety processes, culture and behaviours, ensuring compliance with the Safety Management System and personally attending any serious incidents.

Quality Project Reporting:

• Manage and take an active part in the monthly divisional project reporting process ensuring the line manager has reliable and accurate information on which to base his Board Report.  Through the monthly reporting process and other feedback, identify and address potential problem areas, ensuring that client reporting is accurate and appropriate.

Effective Risk Management:

• Proactively manage and monitor programmes, change process and financial reporting for assigned projects to ensure commercial and relationship risk avoidance and management.

Effective People Management:

• Manage project construction teams in line with the values and culture of our client.
• Provide effective feedback to project teams and individuals.

Skills & experience

• Significant experience of working at Project Manager level
• Has been involved at a senior level in at least one large (£5+) project.
• Industry experience. Track record of successful projects either internally or externally.
• Understands the pre-construction process. Can organise and manage the design phase of a project. Help prepare and maintain the client decision matrix.
• Has a good political awareness.
• Able to collate information from his team to prepare and present the project report.
• Understanding of how to comply with a Health & Safety policy and Health & Safety management system
• Evidence of strong interpersonal and people management skills are essential
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to understand the wider picture whilst devoting attention to detail
• Proactive, diligent, able and willing to think ahead
• Attitude: characterised by enthusiasm, commitment to personal and divisional success
• Values: the person must understand the values of our client and respond positively
• Commercial awareness: understanding and ability to make profit whilst retaining relationships and company values
• Quality driven; demonstrates attitude and experience of delivery projects based on quality, attention to detail and client satisfaction

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree or Qualification
• Significant experience of working at Project Manager level
• In-depth knowledge of the Fit-Out construction process
   

Reporting Line
Operations Director
 
Remuneration Package

AED 35,000 starting salary is open for discussion on the candidate.

Please send your cv to lm@opusrecruit-me.com