Project Director

Mace Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project consultancy firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced project manager to oversee major construction projects. Key responsibilities include directing project delivery, managing resources, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in new build projects, advanced project management knowledge, and exceptional leadership skills. This role promotes a high-performing team environment and focuses on strategic objectives and client relationship management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering major new build construction projects.
• Advanced technical understanding of project management practices.
• Contract literate to a good standard.

Responsibilities

• Directing the coordination and delivery of a major project.
• Accountable for project delivery environment and team assembly.
• Responsible for improving performance and resource optimization.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Communication

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualifications in project management or construction

Job description

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well

• Client focus - Deliver on our promise

• Integrity - Always do the right thing

• Create opportunity - for our people to excel

Directing the development of strategic delivery plans, influences strategy implementation whilst establishing and managing key stakeholder relationships and influencing the management of resources. Ensuring the achievement of company objectives in accordance with stakeholder requirements, aligned to compliance and regulatory frameworks, ensuring effective commercial business practices and tangible operational productivity and improvement/s.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Directing the coordination and delivery of a major project and oversees the implementation of strategies, provides strategic direction and monitors delivery in alignment with overall vision and objectives.

• Accountable for defining and implementing an appropriate project delivery environment including people, organization, process, information and technology.

• Responsible for determining and assembling the right project team with the right skills, experience, capabilities and technical competency, including any required external specialist appointments.

• Responsible for improving performance from the bid baseline by optimizing resources and monitoring, reviewing and evaluating activities, systems and methodologies.

• Relationship owner and primary contact for executive team engagement. Responsible for ensuring efficient governance to support project activities and gaining organizational support and commitment within the business, ensuring the achievement of strategic priorities.

• Key client relationship management, interface, communication and constructive challenge, responsible for client relationship management (CRM).

• Acting as the public face of the programme to external stakeholders, chairing executive steering group meetings.

• Accountable for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability, governance, risk, stakeholder management and programme compliance standards.

• Focusing on delivering programme benefits and outcomes.

• Overseeing the development and maintenance of programme documentation, including process and procedures, plans, reports, registers, and lessons learned.

• Creating and nurturing a high-performing and inclusive team environment that encourages contribution and recognition.

• Engendering, promoting and influencing quality and service excellence in all conversations and programme interactions.

• Ensuring the programme is operating an effective risk management strategy with appropriate management actions and risk treatments established.

• Responsible for conveying and connecting the wider business strategy to the project team and promoting the associated initiatives.

• Actively networks and utilizes the full depth and knowledge of the business and Mace centres of excellence to support programme delivery. Actively promotes knowledge share with others.

• Ensuring operations are commercially and ethically viable, influencing the achievement of business objectives (including debt collection) and meeting organizational and regulatory compliance obligations. Building and maintaining internal and external relationships (e.g. clients, contractors, consultancies and other stakeholders) to foster growth and increase networks.

• Providing thought leadership and expertise in project management and execution.

• Promoting Mace's value of safety first, exhibiting visible safety behaviors, sharing lessons learned and using safety moments, safety tours and Mace's HSW framework, supports the safety and wellbeing of all Mace staff.

• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition, and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You’ll need to have:

• Proven experience and track-record for delivering major new build construction projects.

• Advanced technical understanding of project management practices, controls, governance and procedures.

• Full budgetary oversight both external project budget and internal fee budget.

• Advanced risk and opportunity management/practitioner.

• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills across estimating, scheduling, procurement, contract administration, financial controls and reporting, across the project lifecycle.

• Contract literate to a good standard.

• Performance management to ensure a high-performance culture is maintained.

• Industry body practitioner/contributor/mentor e.g. RICS, CIOB, ICE, APM, MSP.

• Contract literate to a good standard.

• Extensive sector and/or market-specific experience, knowledge and contacts.

• Extensive experience in successful delivery of major projects, through all phases.

• Leadership and management experience and capability to lead a large team.

• Tertiary qualifications in related (project management and/or construction related discipline), non-related degree or equivalent professional experience/apprenticeship, combined with a demonstrable level of role knowledge, (or equivalent).

• Appropriate professional organization membership such as MAPM/MRICS/MICE/CIOB.

You’ll also have:

• Highly effective communicator/presenter and ability to interface with senior clients, officials and other senior stakeholders with significant gravitas.

• Ability to capture the audience and clearly transmit the position/message.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to manage relationships with key stakeholders.

• Effective appraisal/analytical skills to support skilled negotiations, problem solving, or conflict resolution.

• Developing and maintaining excellent professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Growth mindset that promotes curiosity, high quality contribution and team collaboration.

• Encourages sharing of best practice and lessons learnt between teams.

• Encourages awareness of colleagues from different technical, social and cultural backgrounds.

• Uses enthusiasm to focus team on achieving improved programme performance.

• Encourages sharing of best practice and lessons learnt between teams.

• Encourages awareness of colleagues from different technical, social and cultural backgrounds.

• Acting as the public face of the programme to external stakeholders.

• Advanced competency and understanding of current health safety executive (HSE) (or local equivalent) regulations.

• Relevant and commensurate technical, leadership and management qualifications.

• Established and effective industry/sector wide network of clients, consultants and contractors.

• Advanced knowledge of consultancy/construction, infrastructure and property sectors.

• Proven innovator with a track-record of creating and implementing high-value innovations and better approaches/ways of working.

• Highly regarded across the relevant sector/market and operating at the highest level of compliance.

• Involves suppliers and key players in their business area, in improving core processes.

• Sets new standards of health, safety and wellbeing in their business area.

• Utilizes personal and industry network competencies to promote, support and drive

• Construction to production, digital and data and low carbon innovations.

• Has spent time in both a consultancy and a construction environment.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organization.

Apply now for a confidential discussion.

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