Design Manager – FIFA Stadiums Lead Lifecycle

Sener; Abu Dhabi; Hybrid; AED 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Job summary

Sener is hiring a Design Manager Stadiums to lead the complete design lifecycle of FIFA-standard stadium projects in the region. The role requires a structural or architectural engineering background and extensive leadership of multidisciplinary design teams across concept to IFC stages.

You will act as a primary interface with clients and stakeholders, oversee design progress and quality, and ensure successful delivery of high-impact stadium projects with a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of overall experience.
• Mandatory experience as a Structural or Architectural Engineer on FIFA-standard stadium projects.
• Mandatory experience managing the complete design lifecycle of major FIFA-standard stadium projects.
• Strong design management experience across concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC stages.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary design activities across concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC design stages.
• Manage structural and/or architectural design teams, resources, deliverables, programs, technical quality, and design coordination.
• Coordinate structural, architectural, MEP, civil, specialist, and other design disciplines.
• Lead design reviews, technical workshops, coordination meetings, constructability reviews, and design resolution activities.
• Act as a key point of contact with clients, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders on design matters.
• Monitor design progress, risks, interfaces, changes, and deliverables.
• Review and oversee key design documentation, technical submissions, design changes, and design assurance activities.
• Provide design management leadership throughout the complete stadium design lifecycle.

Skills

15+ years experience

Design management

Stadium design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Structural/Civil Engineering or Architecture

Job description

Sener is hiring a Design Manager Stadiums to lead the complete design lifecycle of FIFA-standard stadium projects in the region. The role requires a structural or architectural engineering background and extensive leadership of multidisciplinary design teams across concept to IFC stages.

You will act as a primary interface with clients and stakeholders, oversee design progress and quality, and ensure successful delivery of high-impact stadium projects with a hybrid working model.