Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure

Requisition ID: 301152 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Abu Dhabi

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Project Overview:

This major mixed-use island development is being planned off the coast of Abu Dhabi. The program involves the creation and development of multiple reclaimed islands that will accommodate residential communities, retail and commercial districts, marinas, beaches, hospitality facilities, public realm, significant infrastructure works and supporting infrastructure. These works include strategic transportation links, roads, bridges, causeways, utilities corridors, marine infrastructure, coastal protection and related enabling works required to support the overall development. The Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services are responsible for providing program-wide leadership, governance, and delivery oversight across the entire development. The PMO/PMC manages planning, design, procurement, construction, interfaces, risks, approvals, cost, schedule, and stakeholder coordination.

Job Summary:

Bechtel is seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior Project Manager – Infrastructure to provide leadership and delivery oversight for infrastructure, utilities and associated enabling works within the Nisi Islands program. As part of the Project Management Consultant (PMC) team, the role will lead the planning, design management, procurement coordination, construction oversight and handover of assigned infrastructure packages, ensuring alignment with client objectives, contractual requirements, regulatory approvals, safety expectations and sustainability commitments.

The Senior Project Manager will act as the primary delivery lead for assigned infrastructure packages, managing and coordinating the Lead Design Consultants, Construction Supervision Consultants, Executive Cost Consultant, contractors, utility providers, developers and adjacent project packages. The role is accountable for integrating scope, design, procurement, cost, schedule, quality, safety, risk, interfaces and stakeholder requirements and for driving timely resolution of issues affecting delivery.

The anticipated scope may include roads, streetscape, earthworks, site development, drainage and stormwater, utility corridors and associated wet and dry utility infrastructure where integrated within the infrastructure works, logistics, temporary works and related enabling infrastructure. The final package scope will be confirmed as the design, procurement and contracting strategy develops. The Construction Manager – Infrastructure will report directly to this role and will support field execution oversight through management of the Construction Supervision Consultant.

Major Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership & Team Management: Lead delivery of infrastructure packages as the primary client/PMC contact. Direct the Construction Manager and multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and setting clear performance expectations.
• Consultant & Stakeholder Coordination: Manage Design and Supervision Consultants, Cost Consultants, and contractors. Ensure design accountability remains with consultants while overseeing PMC reviews, planning, and compliance monitoring.
• Execution Strategy & Oversight: Establish governance and execution priorities. Oversee the project lifecycle from design and procurement through construction, testing, and closeout. Review and challenge execution methodologies and constructability.
• Interface & Utility Integration: Manage complex physical interfaces (roads, bridges, marine, public realm). Deliver integrated utility works and coordinate closely with the SPM – Utilities on capacities, permits, diversions, energization, and sequenced commissioning.
• Commercial & Contract Administration: Support PMC’s FIDIC Engineer duties by ensuring timely and compliant submissions. Monitor scope, cost, and schedule baselines; drive cost control, change management, and direct necessary recovery actions.
• Risk, Safety & Issue Resolution: Mitigate project risks (ground conditions, third-party approvals, long-lead items). Resolve technical and commercial issues. Promote a strict safety culture, ensuring high-risk activities are competently controlled.
• Handover & Closeout: Ensure the progressive development, verification, and acceptance of package records, as-built information, asset data, warranties, and O&M documentation.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in civil engineering, infrastructure engineering, construction management or a related discipline (or international equivalent) and 15+ years of relevant experience, or 19+ years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree, subject to company requirements.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven leadership experience on large, complex infrastructure programs involving multiple contracts, consultants, contractors, stakeholders and delivery interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience with roads, wet and dry utilities, drainage, utility corridors and networks, bulk utility connections, earthworks, site development and associated enabling works.
• Experience within a PMC or client delivery organization managing design consultants, Construction Supervision Consultants and contractors.
• Thorough understanding of the complete project lifecycle, including design development, authority approvals, contracting strategy, budget approval, procurement, mobilization, construction, testing and commissioning, handover, closeout and warranty management.
• Ability to integrate engineering, construction, project controls, commercial, procurement, quality, environmental, safety and stakeholder requirements into practical delivery decisions.
• Working knowledge of utility authority requirements, third-party interfaces, service diversions and connections, construction logistics, temporary works and commissioning processes.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness, including change management, forecasting, cost control, contractor performance, contract administration and FIDIC-based delivery arrangements.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, presentation and technical writing skills.
• Ability to analyze complex information, make sound decisions under pressure and resolve non-standard issues using extensive professional judgment.
• Experience within the UAE, Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC is preferred.
• Fluent written and spoken English; Arabic language capability is advantageous but not essential.
• Knowledge of digital project delivery, common data environments, BIM/GIS coordination, progress measurement and executive reporting on complex programs.

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