Director-Operations

Responsibilities: • Lead the execution and tracking of key strategic initiatives and milestones across the organization, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives. • Oversee the rollout and continuous monitoring of corporate culture campaigns, ensuring relevance, engagement, and alignment with organizational goals. • Develop and implement a comprehensive annual strategy to promote and embed corporate culture values across all levels of the organization. • Drive employee engagement through flagship programs and initiatives, achieving high levels of participation and satisfaction. • Plan and deliver leadership engagement sessions, ensuring seamless co-ordination of logistics, impactful agendas, and meaningful interactions. • Curate relevant speakers, team-building activities, and structured discussions that foster strategic alignment, collaboration, and leadership effectiveness. • Lead the coordination and delivery of company-wide engagement initiatives, ensuring a minimum threshold of employee participation and satisfaction scores. • Serve as the primary coordination point for reporting and performance updates across departments, ensuring timely and accurate submission of progress reports and data to senior leadership. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support strategic decision-making through proactive reporting, performance reviews, and executive forums. • Monitor effectiveness through engagement surveys and adjust plans based on feedback and data-driven insights. • Lead the annual budgeting process for relevant functions in collaboration with Finance. Manage the OPEX budget for the department, ensuring optimal utilization within approved parameters. • Establish processes for monthly tracking, quarterly variance reporting, and cost optimization to support financial accountability and efficiency. • Ensure high standards of operational efficiency through process improvements, stakeholder management, and clear internal communication. • Minimize escalations by proactively addressing issues and maintaining strong internal coordination. Requirements: • Bachelor s degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline from a recognized university. • Professional engineering registration and/or a recognized project management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent certification is preferred. • Strong knowledge of infrastructure design and construction standards, contract administration, project controls and Dubai authority approval processes. • Minimum 12 years of progressive experience in infrastructure project delivery, including at least 5 years in a senior project management or leadership capacity. • Demonstrable experience delivering large-scale roads, utilities and masterdevelopment infrastructure projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. • Substantial UAE experience is preferred, with practical knowledge of Dubai authorities, utility providers, regulatory requirements and stakeholder interfaces.