Associate Director - Project Delivery - Dubai Holding Hospitality Assets

About Dubai Holding Hospitality:

Dubai Holding Hospitality encompasses a diverse range of assets, including luxury hotels, resorts, and a full-service F&B portfolio. The company operates and manages several hotels, resorts, and residences across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, maintaining a reputation for unmatched luxury and service quality.

About the Role:

• Ensure the supervision consultants are discharging their onsite duties in accordance with their contracted services.
• Together with the supervision consultants, review and comment on contractor programmes, logistics plans, method statements, resource plans and ensure they are aligned with the business requirements.
• Maintain governance over cost, schedule quality, risk and stakeholder management.
• Attend scheduled and ad-hoc meetings and ensure the supervision consultant chairs the meetings and issues minutes of meetings in a timely manner. In the absence of a supervision consultant, Senior Manager is to perform the same tasks.
• Follow up on open or unresolved items raised by the contractor (RFI’s) with the responsible party to ensure the project is not unnecessarily delayed.
• Monitor the project expenditure to ensure it is aligned with the agreed and approved project budget.
• Provide early warnings of possible variations / additional expenditure requirements.
• Suggest to management mitigation strategies for potential project programme delays or cost over-runs.
• Review interim payment applications and make recommendations for approval and / or deductions.
• Review the consultants and contractors’ quality procedures to ensure works are executed correctly, in accordance with good engineering practice and avoiding abortive works.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, brand standards and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct quality reviews, mock-ups, inspections and audits.
• Oversee testing, commissioning and rectification works.
• Ensure all project participants adopt best practice HSE protocols.
• Coordinate onsite witness testing and inspections as required.
• Ensure the supervision consultants inspect all aspects of the contracted Works and issue a comprehensive punch / snag list.
• Prepare and coordinate preliminary hand-over inspections and witness testing.
• Coordinate final hand-over inspections.
• Coordinate with the Operator / end user training procedures.
• Review and approve final hand-over inspections.
• Ensure the supervision consultant reviews for completeness the As-Built information together with the Operation and Maintenance manuals issued by the contractor.
• Coordinate with the relevant stakeholders in obtaining the necessary NOC’s from utility providers and government authorities.
• Coordinate pre-opening activities with the Operator.
• Inspect the Works during the Defects Notification Period and make recommendations for any contract adjustments.
• Provide executive reporting and recommendations.

• Provide a recommendation for the Final Payment Certificate.

About You:

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in the construction industry from either a developer or consultancy background.
• At least 5 years focused on project delivery, preferably within a top tier developer international project management firm with specific experience on luxury hospitality.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related discipline
• 8–15+ years’ project management experience, ideally client side or consultancy based
• Proven experience delivering hospitality led refurbishments or luxury hotel projects
• Experience working within live operational assets is essential
• Budgeting: Commercially aware of construction costs and the impact of the decision-making process on budgets. Able to manage and control costs and offer direction on cost effective solutions inc. leading value engineering processes.
• Establish and maintain relationships with project stakeholders from operational teams, consultants, contractors, authorities and those with project influence. Proactively engaging to foster effective communication.
• Able to implement Project management processes.
• Experience of sustainable construction, renewable technology and construction best practice.
• Able to prepare and advise on programme impact relative to the overall project delivery objectives and to mitigate the impact of project delays on the overall schedule.
• Able to manage and advise on quality control procedures on site to achieve an exemplary product.
• Able to prepare and present reports for the wider organisation to update progress on projects status
• An appreciation of risks and understanding of how to document them, including mitigation plans to ensure projects are delivered within their respective constraints.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills, Advanced organisation and time management skills, meticulous attention to detail, interpersonal skills.
• Must be proficient in MS Office suite of tools.

About the Benefits:

At Dubai Holding, we're committed to nurturing the success and well-being of our colleagues. Join our dynamic and diverse team, and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive compensation, career development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment. We strongly believe in creating an empowered workforce that will help us build a connected city for tomorrow. We are committed to attracting the brightest minds and nurturing the most pioneering candidates who desire to make a great impact on the future of Dubai.