About Us
With over 14,000 professionals globally, GHD is a leading multidisciplinary professional services company delivering engineering, design, and advisory solutions across water, energy, resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation sectors.
About the Role
The Assistant Project Manager will play a crucial role in ensuring that construction projects adhere to established quality standards and meet regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports the Project Manager as the Company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during the program execution. Frequently interfaces with upper-level management and client personnel.
- Follows up on instructions and commitments associated with the project.
- Monitors contractor performance pertaining to schedule and conformance to plans and specifications.
- Supports Project Manager in overseeing of the Project Execution Plan, Health and Safety Plan, Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan, and other documents as required. Ensures that the project meets or exceeds goals established in these plans.
- Oversee time and cost budgets inclusive of initial set up with the direction of the senior project management team.
- Demonstrative capability in project controls (scheduling, cost reporting, forecasting, variation management etc).
- Monitoring and evaluating project performance in line with time and budgetary constraints.
- Communicating project performance results with the project management team.
- Managing changes in project processes to resolve identified shortcomings in operational methods.
- Plan and coordinate the resources for each job including inputs from other offices, subconsultants and other suppliers, and manage all jobs to deliver them on time, within the budget.
- Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate to support the Project Manager.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- An advanced degree in Business Administration or Project / Program Management is desirable
- Minimum of 6 years’ related construction phase experience
- Middle Ease project experience
- Incumbent should have a broad general technical and business background.
- Professional registration may also be required.
- Must have the ability to interface with clients and enjoy being hands on technically in the project.
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards Incumbent must meet GHD project management certification requirements.
- Proven ability to perform in a management capacity, excellent written and oral communications
Why Join Us?
- Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary, innovative environment where your input shapes both standardised and bespoke solutions.
- Join a team that values knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and professional excellence.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Minimum of 6 years of related construction phase experience
- Middle East project experience
- Broad general technical and business background
- Professional registration
- Ability to interface with clients and work hands-on technically
- Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards
- Meet GHD project management certification requirements
- Proven ability to perform in a management capacity
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Advanced degree in Business Administration or Project or Program Management
GHD Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GHD and has not been reviewed or approved by GHD.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support, flexible work options, and confidential mental-health assistance are emphasized across the offering. Employee assistance programs for employees and their families further strengthen lifestyle support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid-leave flexibility is highlighted, with the option in some locations to purchase additional leave. Paid holidays and time off are also part of the package in regions where listed.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and life insurance are available in certain countries, and healthcare options are regarded positively in some locations. These medical benefits contribute to a broadly comprehensive baseline.
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What We Do
GHD recognises and understands the world is constantly changing. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. We are a global professional services company that leads through engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Our forward-looking, innovative approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 200 offices, across five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region.
