Project Manager - Facility & Infrastructure

Job description / Role

• Project Manager – Facility & Infrastructure
• Location: Dubai, UAE | Full-time, site-based
• Volantes Technical Recruitment are seeking an experienced Project Manager – Facility & Infrastructure to join a major advanced aerospace programme in Dubai.

This is a senior delivery role with end-to-end responsibility for a technically complex facility and infrastructure programme, covering design coordination, procurement, contractor management, construction, testing & commissioning and final handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead facility and infrastructure delivery from planning through construction, commissioning and handover.
• Own and manage the facility programme, schedule, cost and critical path.
• Manage main contractors, consultants and specialist subcontractors.
• Lead tendering, procurement, contract administration, variations and contractor performance.
• Manage UAE authority approvals, permits, NOCs and utility interfaces.
• Ensure construction quality, HSE compliance and evidence-based progress reporting.
• Coordinate facility interfaces with engineering, test facilities, IT/OT, utilities and specialist equipment.
• Drive testing, commissioning, snagging and final operational handover.

Experience delivering aerospace, defence, test facilities, laboratories, hangars or technically complex industrial facilities would be a strong advantage.

Key Requirements

• 8–12+ years experience delivering major building/infrastructure projects end-to-end.
• Minimum 3 years as the accountable Project Manager on a live construction site.
• Strong experience managing contractors/consultants under FIDIC and/or NEC4.
• Proven UAE/GCC project delivery experience, including authority approvals and permits.
• Strong schedule and cost-control capability using Primavera P6 and/or MS Project.
• Experience with testing, commissioning, handover, HSE and formal change/document control.
• Degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent.

Salary:

AED 44,000 to 45,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

Additional benefits: Excellent benefits

About the Company

Volantes Technical Recruitment are leading experts in global aviation engineering recruitment with over three decades of experience recruiting first class contract and permanent specialists throughout the world for industry-leading airlines, MRO�s and helicopter operators both onshore and offshore.

Our vision is simple � we aim to provide a transparent and honest approach to aviation recruitment, providing bespoke tailored staffing solutions to clients in an often fluid, fast-paced industry.