Project Manager

Reports to: Managing Director

Location: Ahmedabad (Head Office base), with extensive travel across active project sites

Direct reports: Project Engineers / Site Managers; plant and machinery in-charges; site supervisory teams

Role Purpose

Own end-to-end project delivery across the entire division execution, quality, cost, schedule, safety, and plant utilisation.

Key Responsibilities

Project Execution & Delivery

• Own delivery of all active and incoming road projects to scope, schedule, and budget, with project-level P&L accountability.
• Run high-volume, multi-work programmes many small parallel sub-works executed simultaneously with disciplined pre-construction and billing throughput, recognising the pre-construction cell as the critical bottleneck.
• Resolve site-level execution hindrances (alignment, encroachment, approvals, obstruction) and keep works moving.

Quality & Technical Standards

• Ensure all bituminous (DBM/BC) and RCC work meets specification and the standards of the relevant government and municipal authorities.
• Drive quality systems, material testing, and adherence to estimated vs. actual quantities; eliminate rework and length-variance leakage.

Plant, Machinery & Resources

• Maximise utilisation of the company’s batch mix plants, mechanised paving equipment, and vehicle fleet; minimise idle time and breakdowns.
• Own on-site fuel discipline (diesel/LDO efficiency) and coordinate closely with Procurement on bitumen, aggregates, cement, and steel.

Cost & Productivity

• Drive on-site cost control and productivity against estimated norms; own daily progress reporting (DPR) discipline and site-level reporting to the MD.

People & Leadership Development

• Build, lead, and motivate the site management organisation across all locations.
• Personally mentor the two designated high-potential engineers through their 18-month path to division-head readiness — an explicit, measured part of the mandate.

Client Interface (Execution Level)

• Manage day-to-day relationships with client engineers and officials; own measurement books and the site-side substantiation of running account (RA) bills.

Safety, Compliance & Systems

• Ensure site safety, and labour, statutory, and environmental compliance at sites and plants.
• Institutionalise SOPs so delivery is repeatable and not founder-dependent.

Qualifications & Experience

• B.E./B.Tech in Civil Engineering (M.Tech or MBA an advantage).
• 10–20 years in road/highway/infrastructure construction, with proven experience running multiple sites simultaneously.
• Deep, hands-on bituminous and RCC road execution experience; familiarity with batch mix plant and mechanised paving operations.
• Strong track record with government and municipal clients and their measurement and billing systems.
• Experience leading large site teams; ideally exposure to a firm that scaled or professionalised.