Design Project Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities:Project Management:

• Working closely with clients, project team, and various stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Taking ownership of project?s execution from initiation to completion and ensuring adherence to project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Monitoring progress, identifying potential risks, and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams, including architects, engineers, contractors, and vendors, to ensure seamless project execution.

Client Collaboration:

• Engaging with clients to understand their project requirements, objectives, and design preferences.
• Providing expert advice and guidance to clients throughout the project life cycle.
• Fostering strong client relationships and managing stakeholders? expectations effectively.
• Presenting design concepts and proposals to clients and obtaining necessary approvals.

Design Coordination:

• Monitoring the project team to ensure delivering the design as per the project?s contractual, stakeholders, relevant authorities and ALSUWEIDI requirements, codes and standards., avoiding abortive works and reducing variations required as per client/stake holders? decisions.
• Communicating to the project team and management the project?s objectives and goals and securing its delivery via the project execution strategies.
• Coordinating and chairing -as required- project coordination meetings, presentations, and workshops, between the project team, client, authorities, management and any relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitating effective communication and collaboration among project team, client authorities, management and any relevant stakeholders.
• Supporting project team engagement and aligned coordinated processing of project activities.

Quality Control:

• Ensuring the quality and completeness of the project?s deliverables, procedures.
• Implementing quality control procedures to maintain high standards throughout the project lifecycle, as per the client -if requested- and ALSUWEIDI policies and procedures.
• Securing the quality control tools and techniques for the project team as per ALSUWEIDI policies and procedure and complying with client?s guidelines as required.
• Reviewing project quality audits and review reports and impact of team performance, to reporting corrective and preventive actions and recording them as applicable in the lessons learned and risk registers.

?Budget and Cost Management:

• Monitoring project budgets and expenditures.
• Tracking costs related to project activities, resources, required tools and techniques.
• Identifying cost-saving opportunities and propose them without compromising project quality.
• Preparing and reviewing project financial reports, forecasts, change orders and cost impact of team performance

Contract Management:

• Reviewing and negotiating agreements with subconsultants, experts, freelancers, or any other supporting external party.
• Ensuring contractual obligations are fulfilled and managing any contract variations or disputes.

Documentation and Reporting:

• Reporting as per the ALSUWEIDI and contractual requirement
• Managing project documentation, including design drawings and documents, time schedule, contracts, invoices and correspondence.
• Preparing team, scope, cost and time management and progress reports, schedules and records at ALSUWEIDI portal and any other requested formats, such as but not limited to project briefs, scope outlines, responsibility matrix, resources allocation and time schedules, reference and guideline documents, risk registers, lessons learned records and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, as per ALSUWEIDI and client procedures.
• Compiling project documentation for handover and record-keeping purposes, during or after project completion

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