Project/ Construction Director - Road Infrastructure

Parsons; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 220,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a highly experienced Civil Engineering professional to lead the delivery of major road and infrastructure packages in Abu Dhabi. The role requires overseeing interfaces, coordinating utilities, and ensuring compliance with Abu Dhabi standards and approvals.

You will manage risks, drive performance, and deliver testing, commissioning, and handover activities with a focus on safety and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or related field from a recognized university.
• 17+ years of experience on related road/infrastructure projects.
• Experience with Abu Dhabi standards and NoC processes, authority approvals, and utility coordination.
• Proven leadership in managing major road, infrastructure, or civil construction programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of all construction packages and interfaces across the Initiative.
• Monitor contractor performance, progress, milestones, and recovery actions against the programme.
• Ensure works comply with designs, permits, NoCs and authority requirements.
• Direct management of risks, issues, changes, variations, and commercial impacts.
• Oversee health, safety, environmental, quality, inspection, and non-conformance processes.
• Coordinate utilities, traffic management, stakeholders, authorities, and asset interfaces to minimise disruption.
• Provide regular Initiative-level reporting on progress, delays, payments, risks, and disputes.
• Lead testing, commissioning, asset readiness, handover, and post-handover closeout activities.

Skills

Civil Engineering

Project Leadership

Programme Controls

Risk Management

Contract Administration

Stakeholder Coordination

Health & Safety

OSHAD Regulations

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

BIM

MS Project

Primavera

Job description

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Job Description:

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of all construction packages and their interfaces across the Initiative.
• Experience working on road upgrade projects including large structures such as bridges and underpasses.
• Monitor contractor performance, progress, productivity, milestones, and recovery actions against the approved programme.
• Ensure that construction works are delivered in accordance with approved designs, specifications, permits, NoCs, and authority requirements.
• Direct the management of project risks, issues, opportunities, changes, variations, claims, and commercial impacts.
• Oversee the implementation of health, safety, environmental, quality, inspection, audit, and non-conformance processes.
• Coordinate utilities, traffic management, stakeholder, authority, and maintained-asset interfaces to minimise disruption to road users and local businesses.
• Provide regular Initiative-level reporting covering progress, delays, performance trends, payments, variations, risks, incidents, inspections, and disputes.
• Lead testing, commissioning, asset readiness, handover, and post-handover closeout activities.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering or related field from a recognized university.
• 17+ years of experience on related projects.
• Experience with Abu Dhabi standards, DMT/ADM/ITC requirements, NoC processes, authority approvals, and utility coordination.
• Proven leadership experience in managing major road, infrastructure, utilities, or civil engineering construction programmes.
• Strong knowledge of programme controls, construction management, cost management, risk management, change control, and contract administration.
• Demonstrable experience coordinating contractors, supervision consultants, government authorities, utility providers, and multiple project stakeholders.
• Sound understanding of health and safety requirements, including OSHAD-related regulations and construction industry practices.
• Ability to lead collaborative, high-performing teams and make timely decisions on complex programme, technical, commercial, and delivery matters.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience delivering complex urban road, highway, interchange, bridge, utility, public realm, or traffic management projects.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management, cost forecasting, payment certification, variations, claims, provisional sums, and final accounts.
• Experience with testing and commissioning, BIM, asset information, operational readiness, and structured handover into maintenance.
• Experience applying collaborative enterprise-delivery principles, continuous improvement, value engineering, constructability reviews, and best-practice knowledge sharing.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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