Manager Structures

Job description / Role

* The Manager Structures role involves overseeing and integrating structural design aspects through RIBA stages, ensuring compliance with project briefs, budgets, and technical standards.
* The position requires managing Structural Design Consultants, leading design reviews, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, efficient, and constructible designs.

Client Details

Leading developer in the UAE creating world-class projects. The company is committed to driving economic growth and enhancing the UAE's position as a global destination, focusing on innovation, sustainability, and delivering exceptional projects.

Description

* Project Collaboration: Work with the Development Design team to define the Project Brief and ensure that the structural design aligns with the project budget and overall vision.
* Consultant Management: Lead interactions with Structural Design Consultants and sub-consultants, ensuring their work adheres to the Project Brief, Programme, and Budget.
* Design Process Oversight: Manage the structural design process, ensuring deliverables are on time, high-quality, well-coordinated, and technically sound.
* Stakeholder Coordination: Manage inputs from stakeholders, implement Design Freezes, and resolve any conflicts or overlaps in the design activities of the consultants.
* Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC): Champion QA/QC processes for structural designs, ensuring consistent and high-quality design reviews, and that consultants respond appropriately to comments.
* Leadership in Design Review: Lead the structural design review process, ensuring compliance with technical and statutory requirements, and that designs are fit for purpose, constructible, and operable.
* Value Engineering: Identify and evaluate opportunities for Value Engineering to optimize designs and ensure technical and budgetary efficiency.

Job Offer

Offering a competitive compensation package, including a market-aligned salary and benefits, reflective of the candidate's experience and expertise. Beyond financial rewards, the candidate will have the opportunity to work on iconic, large-scale projects that have a significant impact on the region's development.

* The successful candidate for the Manager Structures role will be a highly experienced structural or civil engineer with a minimum of 8 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
* They will have a proven track record in managing complex structural design projects, particularly through RIBA stages 2, 3, and 4, ensuring alignment with project briefs, budgets, and technical standards.
* This individual will excel in leadership, with the ability to manage and coordinate Structural Design Consultants and cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality, timely, and technically sound deliverables.
* The candidate will possess a deep understanding of local and international codes, UAE regulatory processes, and will be skilled in implementing quality assurance and quality control measures.
* Additionally, they will be digitally fluent, capable of advancing digital aspirations in design, and will demonstrate strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead design reviews, resolve conflicts, and optimize designs through Value Engineering.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

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The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.