Project Director

About the role

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About the role

Parsons is looking for an experienced Project Director to join a major development program. In this role you will provide strategic leadership and project oversight across master planning, infrastructure, buildings, and multidisciplinary design and engineering, working closely with the client, consultants, contractors, authorities, and key stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as a client representative, providing strategic leadership and oversight across the development program.
• Oversee master planning, infrastructure, building design, engineering, procurement, and construction activities.
• Manage and coordinate consultants, designers, PMC teams, contractors, and specialist service providers.
• Ensure effective integration of buildings, infrastructure, utilities, transportation, public realm, and site-wide systems.
• Establish and monitor project governance, delivery strategies, schedules, budgets, risks, and key performance indicators.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, constructability reviews, technical assurance, and resolution of key project issues.
• Monitor consultant and contractor performance against contractual requirements, milestones, quality standards, and client objectives.
• Coordinate with authorities and stakeholders to support approvals, permits, utilities, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage project risks, interfaces, changes, dependencies, and key decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide clear reporting and recommendations to client leadership on project status, risks, priorities, and required actions.
• Build strong relationships with the client, developers, authorities, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to project teams, promoting collaboration, accountability, and high performance.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Urban Planning, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience delivering major master-planned developments, infrastructure, mixed-use, residential, hospitality, or complex building programs.
• Proven experience as a Project Director, Program Director, Development Director, or similar senior client-side/PMC leadership role.
• Strong experience managing multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Comprehensive understanding of the project lifecycle from master planning and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, design management, project controls, commercial management, risk, change management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent client-facing, leadership, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Previous client-side, PMC, PMO experience on major development programs.
• Experience delivering large-scale master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, hospitality, residential, infrastructure, or complex building portfolios in the UAE or wider Middle East.
• Knowledge of regional authority approvals, design codes, procurement processes, and utility requirements.
• Experience coordinating master planning, buildings, infrastructure, transportation, utilities, and public realm packages.

Additional information

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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