Senior High-Rise Project Manager: Design & Contracts Lead

Lighthouse Green Fuels Limited; Makkah Region; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Career progression

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

DAR Engineering, a leading design and engineering consultancy in Saudi Arabia, seeks a highly experienced Project Manager to lead a major high-rise building project in Makkah. The role demands expertise in contract management, design coordination, construction supervision, and project controls to ensure delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

Requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and 20+ years of relevant experience, including 10+ years in senior leadership as PM/Resident

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from a recognized university.
• Professional project management or engineering certifications will be considered an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall planning, management, and delivery of the project from inception through completion and handover.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership throughout the design and construction phases.
• Oversee and coordinate design development, construction supervision, and site execution activities.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, project specifications, approved drawings, and applicable standards.
• Manage and administer contracts in accordance with FIDIC principles and other relevant construction contract requirements.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules, budgets, and key milestones.
• Establish and maintain effective project management procedures, controls, reporting, and governance mechanisms.
• Identify project risks, delays, and potential issues and implement appropriate mitigation and corrective actions.
• Lead coordination among the client, consultants, contractors, designers, and other key stakeholders.
• Review and provide direction on project programmes, resource requirements, progress reports, and recovery plans.
• Oversee construction supervision activities to ensure quality, safety, and compliance with project requirements.
• Manage contractual matters, including variations, claims, extensions of time, and other project-related issues.
• Provide regular project updates and executive-level reporting to senior management and the client.
• Ensure successful project completion, testing, commissioning, handover, and close-out.

Skills

Contract management

Design coordination

Construction supervision

Project controls

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Arabic proficiency

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

PMP certification (advantage)

Job description

DAR Engineering, a leading design and engineering consultancy in Saudi Arabia, seeks a highly experienced Project Manager to lead a major high-rise building project in Makkah. The role demands expertise in contract management, design coordination, construction supervision, and project controls to ensure delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

Requires a Bachelor's in Engineering and 20+ years of relevant experience, including 10+ years in senior leadership as PM/Resident