Senior Project Manager

siscojobs; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Senior Project Manager in Dubai, UAE is sought to lead complex initiatives across engineering, construction, and procurement. You will drive end-to-end delivery, align stakeholders, manage budgets, schedules, and risk registers, and ensure compliance with contracting and quality standards.

The role requires strong leadership of multidisciplinary teams and a track record of delivering projects on time and within scope.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex projects through full lifecycle.
• Strong ability to plan schedules, milestones, resources, and tracking.
• Proven ability to monitor budgets, costs, forecasts, and variances.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring and completion.
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, contractors, vendors, consultants and stakeholders.
• Monitor progress, costs, risks, dependencies and deliverables against plans.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation and corrective actions.
• Manage project documentation, reporting, change controls and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure activities comply with contracts, quality standards and procedures.
• Lead project teams and drive timely resolution of delivery issues.

Skills

Project management

Planning scheduling

Budget cost management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management/PM

Postgraduate qualification in Project/Business Management

PMP/PRINCE2 or equivalent

Job description

We are hiring on behalf of our client for the position of Senior Project Manager in Dubai, UAE.

Our client is seeking skilled, motivated professionals with strong project leadership and delivery capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead projects from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and successful completion.
• Develop detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate project activities across internal teams, contractors, vendors, consultants, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress, costs, risks, dependencies, and deliverables against approved plans.
• Identify project risks and implement appropriate mitigation and corrective-action plans.
• Manage project documentation, reporting, change controls, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure project activities comply with contractual requirements, quality standards, and applicable procedures.
• Lead project teams and drive timely resolution of operational and delivery issues.

Required Skills

• Project Management: Ability to manage complex projects through the complete project lifecycle.
• Planning & Scheduling: Strong capability in project schedules, milestones, resources, and delivery tracking.
• Budget & Cost Management: Ability to monitor project budgets, costs, forecasts, and variances.
• Risk Management: Experience identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring project risks.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to coordinate effectively with clients, contractors, vendors, management, and project teams.

Preferred Skills

• Contract and change-management knowledge.
• Project reporting and project-control capabilities.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams.

Work Experience Requirements

The source does not specify an experience requirement. Typical for a Senior Project Manager role: approximately 8–15 years of relevant professional experience, including substantial experience managing projects and multidisciplinary teams. Candidates would typically have demonstrated responsibility for project planning, execution, budgets, schedules, risks, and stakeholder coordination.

Education

• Minimum: Typical — Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Preferred: Typical — Postgraduate qualification in Project/Business Management.
• Additional: Typical — PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project-management certification.