Development Manager (Construction)
Skyports
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be responsible for development projects from inception to completion
- Undertake site feasibility assessments and identify surveys that need to be completed
- Prepare and manage business plans and budgets
- Select, appoint and manage professional teams
- Procurement and management of the contractor
- Manage planning applications and procurement of required consents
- Manage design processes ensuring value maximization, budget and programme control
- Manage developments ensuring value maximization, budget and programme control
- Ensure compliance with all health and safety and environmental regulations
- Monitor and report on all financial aspects of projects
- Manage projects through to completion and operational readiness
- Professional qualification, ideally RICS with 5+ years PQE
- Experience working as a Development Manager in Dubai and GCC region
- Experience of working with RIBA processes & plans
- Project experience at multiple different project phases
- Knowledge and experience of all of the main project management concepts, tools, and techniques
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Excel proficiency is a core requirement.
- A highly motivated, proactive, self-starter and team-player who likes a challenge and has the ingenuity and resilience to find the solutions to overcome them
- Ability to quickly master complex, technical issues
- A strong interest in aviation and advanced air mobility is preferred
- Being comfortable navigating through ambiguity as this is a new industry and no one yet has all the answers
- Embraces opportunities to learn new skills and take on new tasks whenever they arise
- Flexibility to travel is preferred
- A competitive salary
- Company pension scheme
- Fantastic learning environment
- A unique exciting fast-paced working culture where we can truly make a change for good to the world of sustainable transportation