• Motivates and inspires a high-performance culture through clear direction, providing continuous feedback, recognizing and rewarding exceptional performance and fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation and accountability.
• Provides design leadership to Design team managing the design, coordinating technical, procurement, commercial, risk and opportunities management across all disciplines, systems and interfaces.
• Leads the design team in undertaking technical design reviews to ensure compliance with all Project Requirements and Strategy, Project, Design and Development Briefs.
• Leads the design process in coordination with external consultants through design stages ensuring conformity to the project stated objectives, in line with Ways of Working (WOW), and provides recommendations.
• Manages outputs of design consultants, including related design documentation, to ensure compliance with Strategy, Project, Design, Development Briefs, and Project Requirements.
• Leads coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors and authorities to ensure early identification of design risk and proposal of mitigating strategies.
• Liaises with Cost Consultants to assess cost of design changes and track accordingly to ensure change management processes are adhered to through design stages.
• Ensures team maintains strict compliance with industry standards, codes, required regulations and framework, regulations and templates to guarantee the success of the project.
• Manages design change process and design notification instructions in coordination with Project Management and Development Teams.
• Assesses the Consultants and Contractors submittals to ensure conformity to the specifications including correct processes and procedures.
• Oversees production of Work Breakdown Structure for design/engineering deliverables which is suitable for production of design documentation and is in accordance with procurement, construction staging and project phasing requirements.
• Oversees the effective functional management and production of all design/engineering deliverables including drawings, specifications, reports and presentations.
• Leads functional review and reporting on progress of design/engineering deliverables based on agreed milestone gates and earned value.
• Acts as technical liaison including design matters relating to contracting, procurement and requisitions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Architecture or Construction Management, Project Management or relevant field of study.
• A master’s degree would be an advantage.
• Professional registration in the respective discipline (or similar – i.e. Chartered Engineer) would be an advantage
• Registration as a Project Management Professional (PMP) would be an advantage.
• 20 years’ min relevant experience in engineering design within developers, Contractors or Consultants
• Experience in leading a design team to deliver to program, balancing competing requirements on project to deliver design outcome (e.g. cost v. time v. quality).
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes and regulations.
• Previous KSA/Middle East experience preferred
• Major program experience – managing multiple projects, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders.
• Supports team through periods of business change.
• Provides strategic oversight and guidance in managing and prioritizing the workload, deadline-driven and ability to optimize workload.
• Leverage exceptional written and verbal skills in English – articulate ideas, strategies, and project performance to a range of audiences and to influence at senior levels.
• Leverage in-depth knowledge of enterprise-level digital design solutions and applications.
• Strong leadership skills to inspire large, diverse teams and deliver results.
• Strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills and the ability to lead the function's direction, specifically endorsing or opposing practices as needed.