Senior Construction Manager (offshore)

As a head hunter we are searching for our client for following position:

Senior Construction Manager, UAE (M/W)

The Company

Our client is one of the leading offshore dredging companies in the Middle East. Located in the United Arab Emirates, our client acts in the Gulf Region, in India and beyond. The aggressive expansion course of our client brings it with it that numerous positions are to be filled in over the coming months. Attractive salary packages and an interesting field of activities in a multinational environment makes the client one of the most sought after employers in the region.

Key Result Area

• To execute activities related to reclamation and civil marine projects within deadline and budget available. Ensure high quality, safety and environmental standards.
• Focus on the employers business priorities while meeting customer demands.

Reporting to the Project Director

Supervises Construction Engineers and Superintendents

Expected relationships with other departments

Dredging Division, Reclamation Division, Technical Department

Description of Activities and Key Responsibilities

• Plays an active role in the development of the safety culture on the project, making safety a natural part of all work performed.
• Performs on-site management, supervision and coordination of all self-performed and contracted work.
• Ensures execution of field construction activities in conformance with project drawings, specifications, schedules, cost estimates, procedures, quality requirements and safety standards.
• Controls project schedule and cost through the efficient use of all construction resources and contractors.
• Oversees the development of project schedules in cooperation with the construction engineers and contractors.
• Ensures that daily and weekly short-range planning is maintained down to the foreman level,
• Reviews design scope and approach with regards to constructability and submits recommendations for change.
• Determines manpower levels to attain schedule milestones and monitors manpower levels and craft mixes to ensure conformance with the construction plan.
• Monitors productivity and cost and implements appropriate action to maintain maximum labor productivity and cost-effectiveness.
• Controls change/scope creep, ensuring that all scope changes are quickly and properly documented and that change orders are approved prior to the performance of work.
• Assist the Site Industrial Relations in the overall administration of labor relations policies.
• Manages the contractual commitments of contractors, including cost, quality, and schedule and coordinates their field activities.
• Plans and manages the projects temporary facilities.
• Maintains quality of all work in accordance with the standards as specified in the design documents.
• Ensure effective construction equipment use and maintenance program.
• Ensure an effective plan for the supply and control of tools and supplies.
• Management of administers, trains, and motivates all personnel in construction operations.
• Remain knowledgeable of safety policies and procedures and performs assigned duties in a safe manner and, while supervising others, has responsibility for their safety and ensures that they comply with established safety policies and procedures and practice safe work habits.
• Manages and maintains all client relations as the site.

Educational Qualifications & Certificates

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent

Behavioral Skills

• Be able to manage personnel with different cultural backgrounds.
• Motivate and inspire colleagues to develop knowledge, skills and competencies. Provide objective and constructive feedback in an appropriate way.
• Stimulate a result-oriented organizational culture by regularly sharing the division's performance and results.
• Be able to translate department targets into concrete and measurable goals for the division for a timely achievement of goals.
• Take over ownership of own objectives agreed upon and of the objectives of the division.
• Investigate, understand and respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders. Build and maintain strategically important client contractor relations.
• Proactively serve and constructively respond to external client needs in order to meet business priorities.
• Initiate and stimulate teaming: horizontal (between departments) and vertical (Within the different departments) cooperation in the organization.
• Show respect, flexibility and loyalty towards colleagues throughout the organization.
• Collaborate constructively and effectively with all levels within and outside the organization orally and in writing. Actively listen and be persuasive in reasoning.
• Communicate clearly and succinctly orally and in writing. Adapt oral and written communication style to the audience.
• Drive the change and innovation of the division.
• Manage conflict, solve problems and mediate between different interests of multiple stakeholders.
• Be able to identify and mitigate risks within the scope of the division and related to other divisions/department interfaces.

Relevant Experiences

• Dredging
• Marine Construction

Years of Experience

15+ years

Languages

• English in verbal and writing
• Arabic preferred
• Any other language is an asset

IT skills

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Project
• Primavera 6