Project Manager - Resort Development Projects

Atlantis; Dubai; On-site; AED 246,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Food & beverage privileges

Discounted rates at Kerzner properties

Health insurance (incl. dental)

Annual flights home

Life insurance

Incentive programme

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Atlantis Resorts is seeking a Project Manager for Resort Development Projects in Dubai to coordinate design, construction, refurbishment, and delivery across a luxury resort environment. You will manage scope, budgets, contractors, consultants, and approvals, ensuring timely handover and alignment with commercial objectives.

The role requires end-to-end project coordination, client-side representation where needed, and collaboration with internal teams, operators, and leadership to deliver

Qualifications

• Proven project administration and delivery experience overseeing consultants, contractors, budgets, and construction coordination.
• Experience coordinating complex hospitality or resort development projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to manage cost, schedule, quality, and regulatory requirements across project phases.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate resort projects from definition through construction, commissioning, handover, and warranty completion.
• Engage consultants, designers, and contractors to establish detailed scopes and measurable objectives.
• Ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business objectives throughout planning and delivery.
• Maintain project schedules, budgets, and change controls with clear reporting to senior leadership.
• Prepare cost-to-completion summaries and timely progress reports for management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Construction coordination

Vendor management

Client liaison

Risk management

Tools

Opera

RAMCO

Job description

Project Manager - Resort Development Projects Job Snapshot

Role: Project Manager - Resort Development Projects

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospitality

Function: Project Management

Experience: Proven project administration and project delivery experience involving consultants, contractors, budgets, and construction coordination

Job Type: Full-time

Job Overview

Project Manager - Resort Development Projects in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a Hospitality role responsible for coordinating design, construction, refurbishment, and special project delivery across a complex luxury resort environment. The position manages project scope, budgets, contractors, consultants, authority approvals, quality controls, payment applications, stakeholder reporting, team performance, and final handover while ensuring business-critical projects remain aligned with approved timelines and commercial objectives.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: Hospitality

Function: Project Management

Salary: 22000-35000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Project Manager provides end-to-end coordination for special projects that affect resort facilities, guest spaces, operational areas, and supporting infrastructure. Acting as a client-side representative where required, the role connects designers, consultants, external project managers, contractors, specialist suppliers, commercial teams, legal teams, operators, and senior leadership. The position has direct influence on project cost, construction progress, quality, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness. It also carries wider leadership responsibilities involving departmental budgeting, colleague development, workforce planning, performance management, and cross-functional execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate resort projects from initial definition through construction, commissioning, handover, and warranty completion.
• Work with consultants and designers to establish detailed project scopes and measurable objectives.
• Confirm technical feasibility before projects advance into execution.
• Engage relevant operational and business stakeholders during planning and design development.
• Represent the client when an external Project Manager is appointed.
• Coordinate internal teams, consultants, contractors, vendors, and specialist suppliers throughout delivery.
• Maintain control over project schedules, budgets, scope, and expected outcomes.
• Drive projects toward completion within agreed business timelines.
• Monitor project expenditure and maintain visibility of committed and forecast costs.
• Prepare project cost-to-completion summaries for management review.
• Issue timely progress, cost, and risk reports to senior leadership.
• Maintain transparent communication with stakeholders regarding project status.
• Review recommendation reports submitted by consultants or project teams.
• Coordinate comments and approvals from the VP of Special Projects, senior management, and resort operators.
• Obtain required internal approvals and authorized signatures.
• Work with commercial and legal teams during LOI and contract finalization.
• Track contractual requirements affecting project execution.
• Coordinate government and authority approvals through appointed consultants.
• Verify that required design NOCs are obtained.
• Confirm construction NOCs and building permits are secured before applicable works commence.
• Monitor regulatory approvals against the construction schedule.
• Evaluate design development against agreed project objectives.
• Review construction progress through site meetings and physical inspections.
• Prepare detailed weekly and periodic project status reports.
• Identify major construction delays and emerging delivery risks.
• Report critical matters to the VP of Special Projects.
• Coordinate corrective action with consultants and project managers.
• Minimize potential delay to approved construction programmes.
• Inspect completed works against drawings, specifications, and required quality standards.
• Identify defective or non-compliant work and ensure corrective action is completed.
• Apply appropriate project controls when scope, schedule, or cost changes occur.
• Maintain complete project trackers, records, correspondence, and approval documentation.
• Develop productive working relationships with external suppliers and contractors.
• Support evaluation of contractor and supplier payment applications.
• Assist with valuations before payment certification.
• Verify payment recommendations against contractual terms and completed work.
• Participate in pre-handover inspections with consultants.
• Coordinate snagging schedules before project completion.
• Track snagging items through final rectification and sign-off.
• Reinspect completed works where necessary.
• Monitor outstanding defects during the defect liability and warranty periods.
• Ensure unresolved DLP issues are followed through to closure.
• Support departmental administration when operational coverage is required.
• Raise and administer project requisitions and internal approvals.
• Use Opera and RAMCO systems where applicable.
• Prepare formal reports, correspondence, and management information requested by the Department Head.
• Maintain close working relationships with other departments across the resorts.
• Stay informed about operational initiatives that may affect project priorities.
• Contribute to annual departmental budget preparation.
• Monitor actual financial performance against budget.
• Highlight unfavorable expenditure trends promptly.
• Recommend corrective measures where financial performance falls below expectations.
• Identify opportunities to improve project efficiency and departmental performance.
• Translate department priorities into clear individual objectives for team members.
• Monitor performance against agreed expectations.
• Provide ongoing coaching and formal feedback.
• Develop colleagues through practical guidance and structured development activity.
• Deploy available resources according to workload and business priorities.
• Support the leadership team with project and departmental performance insight.
• Lead through collaboration across departments where direct reporting lines do not exist.
• Build engagement and accountability within the project team.
• Support recruitment and selection for direct reports and wider team requirements.
• Participate in appraisal and personal development processes.
• Address colleague performance or disciplinary matters in coordination with Human Resources.
• Maintain an accessible management approach for colleague concerns.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Kerzner people processes and deadlines.
• Support probation reviews, performance reviews, and related follow-up actions.
• Review staffing requirements with operational and Human Resources teams.
• Maintain productive staffing levels while controlling unnecessary payroll expenditure.
• Participate in talent reviews and succession planning.
• Ensure mandatory training compliance across responsible teams.
• Encourage active participation by departmental trainers.
• Review labor turnover trends and address areas requiring management action.
• Conduct coaching sessions with department heads and team leaders.
• Support engagement survey communication and action planning.
• Participate in recruitment interviews when required.
• Review replacement hiring and manpower requirements.
• Support regular corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Ideal Profile

• Proven professional experience in project administration or project management.
• Experience delivering construction, fit-out, refurbishment, capital works, or hospitality projects is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of project planning and coordination.
• Able to manage consultants, designers, contractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Comfortable acting in a client-side project management capacity.
• Good understanding of construction programmes and site progress reporting.
• Experience monitoring cost, budget, and forecast information.
• Familiar with contractor valuations and payment certification processes.
• Understanding of scope variation and change control.
• Experience coordinating contracts, LOIs, and management approvals.
• Familiarity with government approval and NOC processes is beneficial.
• Good knowledge of snagging, handover, DLP, and warranty follow-up.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills.
• Strong internal stakeholder management capability.
• Excellent written and spoken communication.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Able to handle multiple projects and competing deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Confident preparing reports for senior management.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Strong Microsoft Excel capability.
• Competent in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of Opera is advantageous.
• Knowledge of RAMCO is advantageous.
• Commercially aware and comfortable working with budgets.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Able to coach, motivate, and develop colleagues.
• Comfortable supporting performance management activities.
• Strong customer and operational service focus.
• Able to influence teams across departmental boundaries.
• Adaptable within a fast-moving resort and construction environment.

Skills Set

• Project management
• Resort development
• Hospitality projects
• Construction coordination
• Project administration
• Client representation
• Scope development
• Technical feasibility
• Design management
• Consultant management
• Contractor coordination
• Vendor management
• Supplier management
• Project scheduling
• Construction programmes
• Budget control
• Cost tracking
• Cost-to-completion forecasting
• Project reporting
• Senior management reporting
• Progress monitoring
• Construction inspections
• Quality control
• Snagging management
• Project handover
• Defect liability management
• Warranty follow-up
• Change control
• Risk mitigation
• Project documentation
• LOI coordination
• Contract administration
• Payment applications
• Contractor valuations
• Payment certification
• Government approvals
• Design NOCs
• Construction NOCs
• Building permits
• Stakeholder management
• Cross-functional coordination
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office
• Opera
• RAMCO
• Department budgeting
• Financial monitoring
• Team leadership
• Performance management
• Workforce planning
• Employee development
• Recruitment support
• Resource allocationProblem-solving
• Hospitality operations

Why Join Us

The role provides broad project exposure within Dubai 's Hospitality sector, covering design coordination, construction delivery, cost management, authority approvals, commercial processes, quality inspections, handover, and operational integration. Working across complex luxury resort environments gives project professionals the opportunity to strengthen both technical delivery capability and senior stakeholder management experience.

The position includes a competitive tax-free salary in UAE Dirhams,

• food and beverage privileges
• discounted rates across participating Kerzner properties worldwide
• comprehensive health insurance including dental coverage
• annual flights home
• life insurance
• an incentive programme
• colleague wellness initiatives

Professional development, leadership exposure, multidisciplinary project work, and mobility across the wider Kerzner portfolio provide additional pathways for long-term career progression.

About the Company

Atlantis Resorts operates Atlantis, The Palm and Atlantis The Royal in Dubai as part of Kerzner International. Its extensive hospitality portfolio requires ongoing capital projects, refurbishments, technical improvements, guest‑area upgrades, restaurant developments, and operational enhancements, supported by dedicated project teams responsible for coordinating design, construction, commercial controls, consultants, contractors, and final project delivery.