Asset Infra Head - Airport Projects

Adani Group; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Adani Group seeks a Head - Project to lead end-to-end execution of airside, terminal and landside works at major airports. You will guide cross-functional teams, manage budgets, timelines and quality, and ensure regulatory compliance while coordinating with vendors, authorities and communities.

The role requires extensive site leadership, risk management, and a proven track record in large infrastructure projects within India’s aviation or civil sectors.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering is required.
• MBA or construction/project management qualification is preferred.
• 18+ years in site execution of large infra/EPC projects, with 6+ years as Site/Project Manager owning a full project front.

Responsibilities

• Oversee site delivery against baseline for cost, schedule, quality and safety.
• Integrate civil, mechanical, electrical, commissioning and enabling works.
• Ensure compliance with land, ROW, permits and conditions on site.
• Drive contractor performance, productivity and adherence to timelines.
• Maintain zero-harm safety culture and build-right-first-time quality.
• Control site costs, billing and change management with project controls.
• Manage stakeholder relations with local authorities, landowners and communities.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Site execution

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering

MBA / Construction or Project Management

Job description

Job Description:

Responsibilities

About Business:

Adani Group: Adani Group is a diversified organisation in India comprising 10 publicly traded companies. It has created a world class logistics and utility infrastructure portfolio that has a pan-India presence. Adani Group is headquartered in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India. Over the years, Adani Group has positioned itself to be the market leader in its logistics and energy businesses focusing on large scale infrastructure development in India with O & M practices benchmarked to global standards. With four IG rated businesses, it is the only Infrastructure Investment Grade issuer in India.

Adani Airports Holding Limited: Adani Airports Holding Limited is reshaping the aviation landscape, transforming airports into dynamic hubs of connectivity, innovation, and service excellence. By prioritizing passenger experience, leveraging state-of-the-art technology, and enhancing operational efficiency, we are redefining airport infrastructure across India. Our vision is to create world-class airports that serve as gateways to regional development and global connectivity, positioning Adani Airports as a leader in the aviation sector with a focus on sustainable growth and community impact.

Job Purpose: Head - Project is responsible for overseeing the successful execution of all airside, terminal and landside projects. This role involves leading cross-functional project teams, ensuring compliance with project budgets, timelines, and quality standards, and delivering projects that align with the strategic goals of the airports master plan. The role requires a strong focus on project management, stakeholder coordination, risk management, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities of Role

Site Delivery & Front Management

• Own delivery of the site against the baseline — cost, schedule, quality and safety — and the recovery plan when it slips.
• Integrate civil, mechanical, electrical, commissioning and enabling works into one sequenced, de-conflicted front.
• Keep work fronts open and productive — sequence fronts, balance resources and break the daily bottlenecks that stall progress.

Drive contractor performance and productivity;

• hold them to programmed, manpower and method commitments.

Safety, Quality & Statutory Ownership On The Ground

• Be visibly, personally accountable for zero harm — set the tone, walk the site, and back every stop-work made for the right reason.
• Own built quality — ensure hold-points, inspections and build-right-first-time discipline are real, not paperwork.
• Ensure statutory, environmental and labor compliance is live on site — permits, consents, hold-points and conditions are met before and during work.
• Make sure execution never runs ahead of land, ROW and statutory clearance for a given front.

Cost, Commercial & Resource Control

• Own site cost and productivity — manpower, plant, material and cash deployed for output, not just activity.
• Govern measurement, billing and certification with the Project Controller so paid work equals built work.
• Control change at source — flag scope creep and field changes early, with cost and time impact, before they become claims.
• Optimize the deployment of shared resources across contractors and fronts.

Stakeholder, Land & Community Peace

• Hold day-to-day peace with the local community, land owners, labor and local administration — the relationships that keep fronts open.
• Own escalation and resolution of land, ROW, R&R and statutory blockers that threaten the front, working HO and authorities together.
• Steward CSR, environment, horticulture and local-employment commitments as the projects license to operate.
• Be the projects credible local face when an issue could elevate beyond the gate. Site Organization, Risk & Readiness

Site Organization, Risk & Readiness

• Build and lead an integrated site team across functions and contractors; set clear ownership and a fast escalation path.
• Run a disciplined site governance rhythm — daily fronts, weekly progress, risk and look-ahead — that surfaces problems early.
• Own the top site risks and their mitigation; ensure no single failure can quietly stop the project.
• Drive readiness for testing, commissioning and handover from early in execution, not as an afterthought.
• Deliver site pre-con readiness against the zero-date model - secured land, statutory permissions, pre-con studies, site and staff infrastructure, worker infrastructure and logistics.
• Engage GC partners early for constructability and value-engineering and hold the proposed project start date so actual start matches plan.
• Run execution through the PMC-led alliance model with defined scope and role clarity across owner, PMC and GC, and confirm PMC mobilization and manpower deployment to plan.
• Conduct site project reviews on the Parivartan cost and schedule dashboards.
• Complete and sign off the project closure report for completed site projects.
• Uphold labor-law compliance with timely third-party audits, standardized worker accommodation, colony and central kitchen, effective grievance redressal, and end-to‑end workmen lifecycle monitoring.

Decision Authority & Accountability

• Final site authority on day-to-day execution, sequencing and resource deployment.
• Sole authority to stop work on safety, quality, statutory or labor-risk grounds, and to back others who do.
• Approves site-level spend, work-front release and contractor instructions within the Delegation of Authority.
• Authority to redeploy site resources across contractors and fronts to protect the critical path.
• Accountable to the CPO for site cost and schedule outturn, statutory compliance, zero fatality and front availability.

Internal Interactions CPO;

HO Function Heads (Pre-Construction, Engineering, CFMC, PMO, CAD, Safety, Quality); all Site Leads (Civil / Mechanical / Electrical / Commissioning / Environment / Safety / Security etc.); Project Controller; Capex TC; Project HR & Admin; Stores

External Interactions:

Contractors & PMC; District / local administration & police; Statutory, environmental & labor authorities; Land owners & community / R&R representatives; Utilities & service providers; Lenders / owners engineers (site visits)

Qualifications

Qualification:

• Bachelors in Civil / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering;
• MBA / Construction or Project Management preferred

Experience
18+ years in site execution of large infrastructure / EPC projects, including 6+ years as Site / Project Manager owning a full project front

Requirements: