Senior Construction Director — Middle East Marine Projects

SRT Marine Systems plc; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading benefits package

Private health and travel insurance

Family relocation support

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Senior Construction Director to lead and deliver complex construction and system integration projects across the Middle East. The role is hands-on, site-facing, and requires coordinating ICPs, consultants, and internal teams to meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in civil build and design for telecoms towers or data centres, with a proven track record in international delivery environments and strong

Qualifications

• Extensive project management experience on multi-site construction and system integration projects.
• Experience with civil build, towers, and data centres preferred.
• Track record delivering in Middle East or international environments with in-country partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery remains focused on scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk and customer outcomes
• Maintain project governance, including delivery reviews, action tracking, decision logs, escalation routes, reporting cycles and customer-facing progress forums
• Oversee integrated planning, schedules, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, RAID, change control and delivery forecasts
• Coordinate in-country delivery across customer, government, regulatory, ICP, consultant, subcontractor and internal SRT interfaces
• Maintain a regular site presence across in-country site locations, travelling frequently to project locations to review progress and resolve blockers
• Act as design manager/coordinator during design development, overseeing ICP design consultant deliverables and alignment with requirements
• Coordinate design workshops and reviews between SRT teams, Programme Director, ICP, consultants, customers and site delivery teams
• Manage design queries, technical clarifications, deviations, approvals and installation-readiness constraints
• Ensure construction and design activities comply with in-country health, safety, environmental and statutory requirements
• Assist with tender activity, scope interpretation and delivery advice as required

Skills

Project management

Site-based

Stakeholder management

Communication

MS Word/Excel

CAD

P6/MSP scheduling

Tools

P6 Scheduling

MS Project

CAD

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Senior Construction Director to lead and deliver complex construction and system integration projects across the Middle East. The role is hands-on, site-facing, and requires coordinating ICPs, consultants, and internal teams to meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in civil build and design for telecoms towers or data centres, with a proven track record in international delivery environments and strong