Senior Manager Programme Compliance

Senior manager programme compliance job details in Abu Dhabi

Each project stays within the post’s remit from its concept stage until final handover and close-out. The mandate also reaches into risk mitigation and continuous improvement for the whole portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Governs engineering and compliance on the Ports Cluster’s capital-expenditure construction projects, covering contractual, regulatory, quality and safety standards
• Heads a technical excellence centre whose solutions must be innovative, safe, sustainable, cost-effective, commercially satisfying and fit for purpose, in line with Group governance and strategic goals
• Gives engineering guidance on ports and maritime programmes inside the division and across the Ports Cluster, and maintains relationships with contractors, consultants, suppliers and other senior managers
• Oversees and approves technical requirements for engineering studies in the ports and maritime field, and for design standards, procedures, performance and construction specifications and other technical documents, and aligns them with the authorities, end users and project stakeholders involved
• Handles the technical reports prepared for internal and external stakeholders, explains technical points to non-technical audiences such as clusters and potential customers, and steers the early, preconceptual engineering schemes drawn up for ports and maritime projects that may come later
• Assesses the main risks facing ports and maritime projects, settles issues with the parties involved and prepares mitigation plans
• Directs several engineering teams along with the consultants and contractors appointed to projects, gives the wider portfolio teams concise instructions, and distributes work across resources while planning future resource needs
• Drives ongoing refinement of the department’s standards and procedures, and follows future digital trends in portfolio delivery while supervising how new technologies and practices are brought in

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related field
• Proven engineering and construction project experience
• Time served in a senior engineering management position
• Experience in multi-disciplinary engineering environments
• Extensive background in ports and maritime development
• Excellent English

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree
• Time spent in construction and consultancy organisations alike
• Arabic language skills