Senior Project Manager (Substations / Power Infrastructure Construction)

Austin NAWIC; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Linesight is seeking a Senior Project Manager for substations and power infrastructure in Dubai, UAE. You will lead expert teams on complex electrical projects, drive safety, schedule adherence, and interfaces with utilities, EPCs, and clients to deliver critical infrastructure on time and within scope.

The role requires deep experience across full project lifecycles, from design through handover, with a track record in high‑visibility, multi‑stakeholder environments.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership in large electrical/power infrastructure projects.
• Strong stakeholder and client-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Be a visible onsite leader, ensuring safe work practices and progress.
• Coordinate with client, consultants, and contractors on snagging, schedule, and engagement.
• Identify and resolve issues proactively; monitor processes for improvements.
• Lead meetings, communicate impacts, and ensure project procedures are followed.

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager (Substations / Power Infrastructure Construction) at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Be a visible leader onsite, assessing progress and ensuring safe work practices
• Coordinate with the client team, consultant team and the contractor on all snagging activities, including the schedule and partner engagement
• Identify issues proactively and work with the team to resolve effectively.
• Implement and monitor key project processes, partnering with the client to make improvements and revisions
• Lead and attend key meetings to monitor progress, actively collaborate on solving problems and communicate impacts to partners
• Implement project procedures and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that this procedure is always observed.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have a minimum 12-15 years' relevant project delivery experience, with a proven track record managing complex electrical/power infrastructure projects.
• Have significant substation experience strongly preferred, ideally involving HV/EHV substations, grid connections and associated transmission/distribution infrastructure.
• Are experienced managing substation projects through the full project lifecycle, including design, authority/utility interfaces, procurement, construction, testing, energisation and handover.
• Have data Center / mission-critical experience (advantageous); candidates with strong DC electrical infrastructure experience may also be considered where they can demonstrate appropriate HV/substation knowledge.
• Demonstrate GCC / Middle East experience, particularly experience working with local utilities, authorities and approval processes.
• Have experience working with Tier 1 international consultants, EPC contractors, OEMs and specialist electrical contractors on major infrastructure or mission-critical programmes.
• Demonstrate a strong technical understanding of HV electrical infrastructure, including substations, transformers, switchgear, protection/control systems, grid connections and associated interfaces.
• Have a proven ability to manage multidisciplinary interfaces, particularly between utility/grid infrastructure, sitewide electrical systems, Data Center MEP systems and commissioning teams.
• Show strong contractor and consultant management capability, with the ability to drive programme, quality, safety, technical resolution and commercial outcomes.
• Exhibit strong programme and project-controls awareness, including schedule management, risk, change, procurement, reporting and identification of critical-path issues.
• Have excellent client-facing and stakeholder-management skills, with experience working within an international, highly structured project environment.
• Have a strong communication and leadership style, capable of reporting to the Project Director while independently owning the substation/power workstream and escalating key risks and decisions appropriately.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we're not like the others. We're different. Unique. It's our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world's most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!