Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure (Design)

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Job Description

Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure (Design)

Qatar

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Project Manager to join our team! In this role you will have the opportunity to showcase your talents by managing projects, overseeing teams, and ensuring successful design delivery within our organization.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Developing project plans and timelines:
  • Define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Create detailed work breakdown structures.
  • Establish realistic timelines and milestones.
  • Identify task dependencies and scheduling buffers.
  • Regularly review and update project plans.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams:
  • Facilitate regular meetings and communications.
  • Ensure clear assignment of roles and responsibilities.
  • Mediate conflicts between team members.
  • Align various functional teams towards common project goals.
• Managing budgets and procurement:
  • Develop comprehensive project budgets.
  • Track expenditures and identify cost variances.
  • Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships.
  • Optimize procurement strategies.
• Ensuring quality/safety compliance:
  • Stay updated on relevant building codes and regulations.
  • Incorporate compliance requirements into project planning.
  • Implement robust safety protocols for construction activities.
  • Obtain necessary permits and approvals.
• Monitoring progress and making adjustments:
  • Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to track project health.
  • Regularly review schedule, budget, quality, and risk data.
  • Identify and address issues or roadblocks promptly.
  • Evaluate the need for changes and adjust accordingly.
• Communicating with stakeholders:
  • Provide comprehensive status reports to project sponsors.
  • Engage with end-users, community groups, and other affected parties.
  • Manage public relations and address concerns.
  • Document decisions, changes, and lessons learned.
• Reviewing the Contract and Facilitating Delivery of Requirements:
  • Thoroughly review the contract to understand all obligations.
  • Develop a comprehensive plan for timely delivery of contract deliverables.
  • Coordinate closely with legal and procurement teams to address contractual issues or changes.
• Coordinating with Project Control Team for Payment and Collections:
  • Collaborate with project control and finance teams.
  • Monitor project budgets and cash flow, identifying issues or variances.
  • Facilitate timely collection of payments from the client to maintain project cash flow.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Preferred certifications: PMP/PE/CENG.
• Minimum 17 years’ experience in demonstrable relevant design/ Management experience of large infrastructure.
• Ability to interpret complex contract documents and drawings.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Advanced negotiation and presentation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to organize staff, prioritize work, and lead multicultural teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications.
• MME/MMUP/UPDA certification.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• The ideal candidate will be a strong well disciplined, task driven highly technical and experienced water engineering individual - primarily surface and groundwater networks, collection systems, outfalls design and drainage (pipeline/tunnel) systems – who has worked primarily in the lead technical project delivery of large-scale projects in the water sector for most of his/her career.
• The ideal candidate is a person who has significant technical project delivery skills with supporting Project Management skills and experience.
• Ideally have 5 years of experience in Qatar/GCC region.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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