Project Manager

Location: Dubai / Ajman, UAE

Employment Type: Full-Time

Salary: Up to AED 15,000 per month

Benefits: Company Car, Fuel, Mobile Allowance, Medical Insurance & Employment Visa

Pergola UAE Aluminium SPS LLC is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead our regular-project portfolio and manage a team of Project Engineers across multiple aluminium, steel and glass projects.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring projects are properly controlled, technically sound, accurately reported and delivered according to agreed quality and timelines. The role requires a highly technical, organized and credible leader who can manage a fast-paced project environment while maintaining strong client relationships and continuously improving project systems and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and control the regular-project portfolio of approximately 100–130+ active projects, ensuring proper prioritization, coordination, escalation, and follow-through from project award to handover and close-out.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of 8 Project Engineers, ensuring accountability for project delivery, reporting, site supervision, technical execution, client coordination, and project closure.
• Maintain clear visibility of project status, deadlines, client commitments, drawing approvals, material and fabrication readiness, site readiness, installation progress, snagging, handover, and critical risks.
• Participate in project kickoff and verify that scope, responsibilities, timelines, site conditions, technical requirements, and key dependencies are properly established before execution.
• Review project assignments and workload distribution with the Project Coordinator, and recommend or implement reassignment based on capacity, complexity, location, urgency, and Project Engineer capability.
• Review and approve technical/project decisions within the regular-project portfolio, including constructability, installation methodology, drawings, and site execution, while escalating exceptional or unresolved matters to the Project Director.
• Coordinate closely with the Planning Engineer to monitor schedules, milestones, look-ahead requirements, manpower, resource constraints, and forecast dates, ensuring client commitments are realistic and supported by current project data.
• Intervene promptly when delays, missed milestones, production/material constraints, resource conflicts, quality issues, or client commitments are at risk, and drive appropriate recovery and reprioritization actions.
• Coordinate with Planning, Production, Procurement, Technical, Commercial, Finance, QA/QC, HSE, and other departments to resolve cross-functional issues affecting project delivery.
• Lead major client escalations involving serious complaints, repeated delays, quality concerns, deteriorating relationships, or strategically important clients, while maintaining professional and effective communication.
• Ensure financial or commercial matters—including scope changes, claims, penalties, discounts, refunds, rework costs, or other monetary exposure—are escalated to the Project Director for approval.
• Own the overall Project Portfolio Status / Management Dashboard, ensuring management receives accurate and timely visibility of project performance, risks, delays, critical actions, and decisions required.
• Enforce reporting and ERP discipline across the Project Engineering team, ensuring project status, next actions, responsibilities, dates, and remarks remain current and reliable.
• Monitor Project Engineer performance and apply coaching, corrective action, training, or disciplinary measures where necessary to improve accountability and team performance.
• Ensure projects are executed to the required quality, safety, and technical standards, with prompt snag closure and timely handover.
• Prevent avoidable operational failures such as deployment to unready sites, missed installation slots, repeated remobilization, unresolved shortages, preventable rework, and recurring execution issues.
• Continuously improve Engineering Department systems, workflows, reporting, checklists, escalation processes, and project controls, introducing industry best practices that strengthen efficiency and accountability.
• Resolve operational matters at Project Manager level wherever possible, reducing unnecessary escalation and allowing the Project Director to focus on higher-level commercial, strategic, and high-risk matters.

Mandatory Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years relevant project-management/project-delivery experience.
• Minimum 3 years as a Project Manager.
• Minimum 3 years UAE experience.
• Demonstrated experience in aluminium, steel, and glass works.
• Strong site/construction experience.
• Proven team-management experience.
• Valid UAE Driving License.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Computer literate and with experience using project-management systems.
• Strong technical ability in drawings, constructability, installation methodology, QA/QC and site execution.

We are Looking for a Project Manager Who:

• Leads through credibility. Someone whose team follows their direction because they trust their judgment, technical capability, consistency, and professionalism—not simply because of their title.
• Demonstrates strong ownership and accountability. Takes responsibility for outcomes, follows issues through to closure, does not avoid difficult situations, and does not shift blame when problems arise.
• Is technically excellent. Able to confidently discuss engineering and construction matters with clients, consultants, Project Engineers, and internal teams, particularly within aluminium, steel, glass, façade, and related specialist works.
• Makes sound, fact-based decisions. Evaluates available information, project deadlines, client commitments, financial exposure, operational impact, and priorities before making decisions rather than acting impulsively.
• Remains composed under pressure. Handles difficult clients, project delays, competing priorities, and operational pressure professionally without shouting, cursing, becoming defensive, or allowing stress to affect judgment.
• Communicates clearly and concisely. Able to explain technical and project matters in a structured, articulate, and practical manner without unnecessary verbosity.
• Is highly organized and disciplined in follow-up. Tracks actions to closure, maintains visibility of deadlines and commitments, follows up before issues become critical, and ensures important matters do not get overlooked.
• Is proactive and prevention-focused. Identifies risks, delays, bottlenecks, and conflicts early and acts before they become disruptive to operations or client relationships.
• Treats people professionally and respectfully. Does not misuse authority, intimidate subordinates, pick unnecessary conflicts, or behave disrespectfully toward Project Engineers, clients, or colleagues.
• Develops the team. Coaches Project Engineers, corrects performance issues professionally, recognizes when training is required, and builds stronger capability across the department.
• Drives continuous improvement. Regularly looks for ways to improve workflows, reporting, project controls, checklists, communication, quality, and overall Engineering Department performance.
• Builds systems, not dependency. Creates processes and structures that continue to function effectively even when the Project Manager is not personally following every action.
• Demonstrates strong integrity and professional ethics. Keeps commitments, reports problems honestly, provides management with early visibility of risks, and maintains credibility through consistent actions.

Immediate joiners and candidates with a 30-day notice period are preferred; however, highly qualified candidates will still be considered regardless of notice period.

If you believe your experience, technical capability, and leadership approach align with what we are looking for, we would be glad to hear from you. Please send your CV to [email protected] with the subject line: Project Manager Application – [Your Name]

Pay: Up to AED15,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• What is your current monthly salary in AED? Please note that the information provided may be subject to verification.
• What is your expected monthly salary in AED?
• What is your current notice period / earliest possible joining date?

Experience:

• Aluminium: 3 years (Required)
• Project Manager: 3 years (Required)
• Civil engineering: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• UAE Driving License (Required)

Work Location: In person