Project Director

Job Description: Parsons is seeking an exceptional Project Director to lead the delivery of a prestigious ultra-luxury hospitality development. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring that the project is delivered to the highest standards of quality, guest experience, sustainability, safety, schedule, and commercial performance. The Project Director will act as the senior project representative and will lead coordination between the client, consultants, contractors, operators, authorities, and other stakeholders. What You ll Be Doing • Provide overall leadership and direction for the successful delivery of the project. • Establish and maintain project objectives, delivery strategies, governance structures, and performance standards. • Lead the project team through design development, tendering, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover. • Manage coordination between the client, design consultants, contractors, specialist suppliers, hospitality operators, and authorities. • Oversee project scope, budget, schedule, risk, quality, health and safety, and stakeholder management. • Ensure that the design and construction meet the standards expected for an ultra-luxury hospitality destination. • Monitor the integration of architecture, interiors, landscape, structural, MEP, specialist systems, life safety, and operational requirements. • Lead executive-level meetings and provide accurate progress reports to the client and senior management. • Review and approve key project management plans, procedures, reports, and recommendations. • Identify potential project risks and implement effective mitigation strategies. • Manage change control, claims, variations, commercial issues, and key contractual matters. • Ensure effective coordination of mock-ups, samples, prototypes, materials, finishes, and guest-facing areas. • Support the delivery of brand standards, operator requirements, sustainability targets, and local regulatory requirements. • Promote a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance project culture. • Ensure a smooth transition from construction to operations, including testing, commissioning, training, snagging, and final handover. What Desired Skills You ll Bring • Professional registration or membership with a recognized engineering, architectural, or project management institution is preferred. • Experience in the Middle East or other major international hospitality markets is preferred. Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Confidential What Required Skills You ll Bring • Bachelor s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, or a related discipline. • Minimum of 20 years of relevant experience, including significant experience in major hospitality, luxury hotel, resort, mixed-use, or high-end real estate developments. • Demonstrated experience managing complex projects from concept or design development through completion and handover. • Strong knowledge of project controls, contracts, procurement, construction, commissioning, and stakeholder management. • Experience working with international design consultants, hospitality operators, contractors, and specialist vendors. • Excellent leadership, negotiation, communication, and decision-making skills. • Proven ability to manage large multidisciplinary teams and complex stakeholder environments.