Assistant / Project Manager

Atkins Middle East; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Dubai is seeking an experienced Assistant / Project Manager. The role involves client relationship management, project delivery, and team leadership on various projects across the Middle East and North Africa. The ideal candidate has strong project management skills and a proven track record in delivering projects on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills with a track record of delivering projects on time and cost.
• Ability to build and manage client relationships effectively.
• Experience in drafting technical reports and bid responses.

Responsibilities

• Form relationships with clients and promote the company.
• Manage project timelines, costs, and quality.
• Lead and develop project teams.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Team management

Technical reporting

Bidding and estimation

Leadership

Job description

Overview

Atkins has been established in the Gulf for over 40 years, with initial design and supervision work in the Gulf area beginning in 1967. The regional head office (Dubai) was established in 1979. We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes. Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, Sharjah. The Emerging Markets Business focuses on markets outside the Gulf region in areas where Atkins is not yet established, including North Africa, Middle East and Eurasia.

Due to continued growth, our Emerging Markets Business is looking to recruit an Assistant / Project Manager to be based in Dubai to work on a number of projects in the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia.

Responsibilities

• Forming and managing relationships with clients, networking and promoting the company.
• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality with no rework required.
• Able to manage the drafting of successful responses to bids within their area of expertise.
• Able to check work of all those in the project team.
• Able to realistically estimate pricing/timing associated with projects within their area of expertise.
• Clear knowledge of work procedures, and ability to brief project team on them.
• An effective team member able to apply knowledge gained.
• Responsible for completion of projects to time, cost and quality.
• Developing relationships with Atkins colleagues outside of the business area.
• Increasing knowledge of, and use of Atkins capabilities outside of business units.
• Flexible and enthusiastic and able to make sound judgments.
• Building relationships with clients.
• Able to discuss in detail with clients the local business technologies and markets.

Managerial (Project and/or People) Role

• Display strong team management skills.
• Understanding of People Management issues and can conduct staff development and appraisals; demonstration of a prior track record.
• Fully conversant with the commercial aspects of project management.
• Proven project management skills with responsibility for completing projects to time and cost.
• Good leadership qualities and gains respect from colleagues.

Functional Relationships

• Clients
• Project Directors
• Project Managers
• Delivery Team – Architects / Engineers / Sub-consultants / Cost Management Team
• Head of Departments

About The Company

Atkins is a leading provider of professional, technology-based consultancy and support services to industry, commerce and governments in major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins offers a broad range of skills and resources and provides clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of built-environment projects. We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Our vision is to focus on quality, seek world-class design and excellence, strive to add value, and be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society.

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, Atkins Middle East now employs over 2,000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat), Qatar (Doha), Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait City, and India (Bangalore).