Senior Vice President – Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects.

Black Pearl Consult; Dubai; Vor Ort; AED 2.000.000 - 4.000.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Black Pearl Consult is assisting in an exclusive, confidential search for a Senior Vice President – Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects in Dubai. The role shapes and leads a major capital projects portfolio, setting investment priorities, governance, and end-to-end delivery across generation to grid infrastructure.

Ideal candidates bring senior executive experience on the asset owner/developer side with a track record in multi-billion portfolios, CAPEX accountability, and strong stakeholder

Qualifikationen

• Senior leadership experience in asset owner/developer roles in large power/infrastructure organisations.
• Experience with asset owner/developer side and responsibility beyond project execution.
• Experience in power generation, transmission and/or distribution infrastructure.

Aufgaben

• Lead a portfolio of major power, energy, and infrastructure capital projects.
• Drive long-term capital planning, prioritization, and investment decisions.
• Oversee feasibility through handover of projects.
• Establish portfolio governance, controls, risk management, and performance frameworks.
• Manage senior relationships with regulators, EPC contractors, and strategic partners.

Kenntnisse

Portfolio governance

CAPEX planning

Executive oversight

Team leadership

Regulatory engagement

Contractor management

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Vice President – Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 08/26/2026

Black Pearl is supporting a confidential executive search for a major asset-intensive organization in the UAE seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President – Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects .

This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and leading a major capital projects portfolio — from determining infrastructure investment priorities and long-term development requirements through engineering, governance, execution, commissioning, and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of major power, energy, and infrastructure capital projects.
  
• Drive long-term capital planning, project prioritization, and investment decisions.
  
• Determine infrastructure development requirements based on future capacity, demand, asset performance, and business priorities.
  
• Lead major projects across power generation, transmission, distribution, substations, grid infrastructure, and associated assets .
  
• Oversee projects from feasibility and concept development through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
  
• Establish strong portfolio governance, project controls, risk management, and performance frameworks.
  
• Provide executive oversight of CAPEX, budgets, schedules, contractors, consultants, and project performance.
  
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering, project management, commercial, and technical teams.
  
• Manage senior relationships with regulators, authorities, developers, consultants, EPC contractors, and strategic partners.
  
• Ensure capital projects support long-term network reliability, capacity expansion, modernization, and operational requirements.
  

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you need to meet the following criteria:

We are particularly interested in senior executives who have worked on the asset owner/developer side of large power or infrastructure organizations and have had responsibility beyond project execution.

Candidates should ideally demonstrate experience in:

• Large-scale power generation, transmission and/or distribution infrastructure
  
• Multi-billion capital project or infrastructure portfolios
  
• Capital investment planning and portfolio prioritization
  
• Infrastructure master planning and network expansion
  
• Major EPC and engineering projects
  
• Portfolio governance and executive-level decision-making
  
• CAPEX planning and financial accountability
  
• Contractor, consultant, and commercial management
  
• Government, regulatory, and senior stakeholder engagement
  
• Leading large multidisciplinary teams
  

Candidates currently or previously holding titles such as the following may be particularly relevant:

SVP / VP – Projects | VP – Capital Projects | VP – Major Projects | Executive Director – Projects | Executive Director – Power Projects | Head of Capital Projects | Head of Major Projects | Director – Power Projects | Director – Transmission Projects | Director – Generation Projects | Director – Grid Infrastructure | Director – Infrastructure Development | Programme Director – Power Infrastructure

Candidates currently based in the UAE are preferred , followed by candidates with relevant GCC experience. International candidates should ideally come directly from the power, electricity, energy, or closely related infrastructure sector and be operating at a comparable functional and leadership level.

This is a confidential search , and further information regarding the organization will be shared with suitably qualified candidates at the appropriate stage of the recruitment process.

To view other requirements, please check our website - www.blackpearlconsult.com