Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for leading the planning, execution, and successful delivery of major projects across Abu Dhabi and the UAE. The role requires strong project management expertise, stakeholder management capabilities, commercial acumen, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams throughout the project lifecycle. The successful candidate will oversee project delivery, manage client relationships, coordinate consultants, contractors, and key stakeholders, and ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. • Lead the delivery of projects from feasibility, planning, design, procurement, execution, commissioning, and close-out stages. • Manage multidisciplinary project teams, consultants, contractors, and specialist advisors. • Develop and maintain project execution plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, and reporting frameworks. • Monitor project performance and implement corrective actions where required. • Ensure compliance with client requirements, project governance standards, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements. • Manage stakeholder engagement activities with clients, authorities, partners, and project stakeholders. • Coordinate project reviews and delivery activities to ensure successful project outcomes. • Lead risk management processes and proactively identify and address project challenges and opportunities. • Oversee contractor and consultant performance, contract administration, variations, claims, and commercial matters. • Prepare and present project progress reports, dashboards, and executive summaries to clients and senior management. • Support business development activities, proposals, and client relationship initiatives. • Mentor and develop junior project managers and project team members. • Promote a culture of safety, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline. • Minimum 12+ years of experience in real estate industry. • Strong knowledge of the full project lifecycle, including planning, design, procurement, construction, and handover. • Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders. • Strong understanding of project controls, cost management, scheduling, risk management, and reporting. • Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing capabilities. • Experience working on transportation, roads, utilities, aviation, rail, water, energy, or urban development projects. Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.  Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Please find out more about us at  www.turnerandtownsend.com/   Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:  Twitter Instagram LinkedIn It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.  Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of