Project Manager- Design Management

With more than 14000 people around the globe, GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. Serving clients across five continents and the Pacific region, GHD people share a passion for exceeding the expectations of our clients and contributing to their success.

Our Middle East operations is currently seeking an experienced Project Manager who will be supporting the Engineering Services and Design Business Group to deliver their projects. The successful candidate will join the GHD team, based in our Doha, Qatar office and will be reporting to the Leader – Design Services. 

As a member of the Design Services Team, you will act as an active member leading local and global teams to achieve excellent project outcomes. This role will be working closely with the Project Directors and Business Group Leaders to deliver large retail, residential, industrial, and commercial projects. The PM will be managing high-profile clients and other key internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• You will be a forward-thinking individual ready to change the status quo and bring fresh ideas to the team on how we can manage and deliver our projects.
• Design management of the engineering/Architecture disciplines for deliverables, coordination, and quality controls
• Coordinate as a Design manager, all design matters relating to a project, to ensure that the multi-disciplinary teams building the project work together smoothly and that deliver on time, quality and within budget.
• Reviewing and advising on design technical matters, ensuring they meet regulatory, legislative requirements, the client’s brief and GHD standards.
• Chairing design meetings, writing reports and giving presentations within the design team and with Clients.
• Participate in design meetings and provide continual input to optimize design and deliver high quality standard submission.
• Assist in developing Design Delivery Schedule along with clients, team leads and sub-consultants.
• Develop comprehensive scope-of-work and contract document deliverables list for each related discipline in coordination with team leads.
• Evaluate and motivate designers toward continued growth and leading design solutions.
• Project prioritization of design tasks, assignment and management to the design team.
• Identify risks and potential design issues that could impact project delivery.
• You will provide leadership and planning, coordinate the resources for each project including inputs from other offices, sub-consultants and other suppliers and manage all jobs to deliver them on time, within the budget. You will also provide technical expertise on projects and assist the development of other staff through appropriate supervision and training.
• You will work closely with the Project Directors (PD’s) and Business Group Leader (BGL) to during the initial project setup, project planning stage, delivery stage and close-out phase to achieve the agreed strategy and project’s KPI and follow GHD Project Delivery Framework. 
• You will be able to report on the project’s technical and commercial status to the internal management and external stakeholders. 
• Possess legal and contract management skills to monitor the project Contract, manage scope & variations and identify key risks.
• Maintain and promote a safe environment within your project, business group and wider team. 
• Monitor the coordination of the MEP disciplines with structure and architecture.
• Understanding project life cycle.
• Strong understanding and adherence to GHD’s Winning Work Procedures and preparing proposals.
• You will have a passion for the digital world, and you will understand the power and benefit of BIM delivery being ready to operate in a fluid, digital, and transformation operation harnessing the power of technology to deliver world class projects for our clients.
• Document Preparation: Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.
• Stakeholder Management: Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships for projects and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
• Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to reviewing existing operations in own area of work, and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation: Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Project Assurance: Conduct assurance reviews within the project, facilitate the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, so that senior stakeholders have confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Scope Definition: Manage the delivery of research, workshops, and other activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.
• Project Planning: Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.
• Project Reporting and Review: Draft project review reports and presentations, including key information, commentary, and recommendations, to support the review process and enable stakeholders to evaluate progress and agree on change.
• Project Resource Management: Manage the deployment of project resources, proactively managing project costs, providing forecasts, and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Project Closeout and Handover: Draft elements of product documentation and user training to support handover to business as usual. Contribute to post-project reviews and identification of lessons learned.
• Project Team Management: Lead a small project team; communicate the necessary outcomes and the direction required to achieve them; coordinate team actions on project tasks; request additional team member support when needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Requirements Management: Coordinate the identification and elicitation of requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for completion and alignment; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable. Generally done at the level of project phases.

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