We are seeking an experienced Manager, Project Management to play a key leadership role in driving infrastructure project delivery. Acting as the operational bridge between the project execution team and the Senior Manager / Project Team Leader (PTL), you will lead project teams, strengthen governance, and ensure projects are delivered successfully within approved scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Responsibilities:
Project Implementation
- Review and validate project implementation readiness, including master schedules, budgets, development work programmes, authority approvals, site constraints, and resource availability to ensure feasibility prior to activation.
- Lead project activation and oversee design development, cost control, and implementation planning to ensure delivery within approved time, budget, and scope.
- Coordinate and chair key pre-construction and project coordination meetings with internal stakeholders and consultants to ensure alignment, readiness, and continuous progress.
- Monitor and track statutory submissions, approvals, and design compliance, including infrastructure and engineering requirements, to support timely and compliant execution.
- Support the Senior Manager / PTL and Development Manager by providing consolidated implementation updates and planning progress for management and board-level reporting.
Project Progress Monitoring
- Exercise full oversight of daily site operations, ensuring construction activities align with the program, budget, and quality benchmarks. Proactively identify slippages and implement recovery plans.
- Coordinate daily project and site activities, working with developers, consultants, and internal teams to resolve technical issues and ensure smooth implementation.
- Resolve on-site technical and coordination issues by facilitating collaboration between contractors, consultants, and internal technical teams to maintain project momentum.
- Ensure the project is completed on schedule and within the approved budget.
Project Quality & Safety
- Resolve on-site technical and coordination issues by facilitating collaboration between contractors, consultants, and internal technical teams to maintain project momentum.
- Monitor site Safety Committee, ensuring all the works carried out at site complies with relevant OSHA regulation, monitoring safety compliances and reporting safety issues & progress to related departments.
Contract Administration & Construction Management
- Ensure effective cost control, minimize variation orders, and maintain high-quality standards in both product and workmanship.
- Drive value and minimize cost overruns by enforcing strict control over Variation Orders, ensuring all variations are justified, priced accurately, and approved prior to execution.
- Collaborate with the Contracts team on pre- and post-contract tasks, including tender reviews, agreement drafting, contract preparation, subcontractor negotiations, contract administration, and correspondence.
- Coordinate with clients, contractors, authorities, and project consultants to address technical matters, ensure quality assurance, and oversee daily operations in line with project plans and specifications.
Authority Liaison & Compliance
- Coordinate authority engagement to facilitate timely approvals, ensure regulatory compliance, and proactively address compliance risks or issues that may impact project delivery.
- Monitor regulatory and statutory requirements, ensuring project activities, submissions, and approvals are aligned with prevailing laws, guidelines, and compliance standards.
- Oversee the preparation, submission, and tracking of statutory documentation to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and avoidance of approval-related delays.
- Enforce governance and cost discipline by reviewing and controlling Variation Orders to ensure all variations are justified, accurately priced, and formally approved prior to execution.
Project Finance
- Manage the project's financial execution by controlling the construction budget, tracking all costs (labor, materials, subcontractors), and forecasting final project cost.
- Review and endorse all progress payments to contractors and consultants, certifying that work completed meets the required standards and quantities before submission to Finance.
Reporting, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as schedule variance, cost variance, productivity rates, defect trends, safety statistics, and approval turnaround times.
- Provide clear visibility on critical path activities, milestone achievements, and potential impacts on handover, CCC, and vacant possession timelines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Building Surveying, Construction Management, or equivalent.
- Total Work Experience: 710 years of total working experience.
- Total Relevant Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in construction and project management, with strong site-based exposure.
- Strong knowledge of contract administration, construction management, and site coordination.
- Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, work programmes, and statutory requirements.
- Good commercial awareness with experience managing costs and variation orders.
- Proven ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and drive projects to completion.
- Proficient in Primavera Unifier, Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and AutoCAD.
