Project Director

Position: Projects Director

Position overview:

We are looking for an experienced and results-oriented Package Director to lead and oversee a portfolio of large-scale, complex infrastructure projects. The role is responsible for ensuring strategic alignment, efficient execution, and successful delivery across the program, while driving high-level stakeholder engagement, cross-project coordination, resource optimization, and robust governance to achieve organizational objectives and maintain excellence in quality, schedule, and budget performance.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Project & Program Leadership

• Oversee the planning, initiation, and execution of multiple complex projects within the package, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic priorities.
• Define and refine scopes, objectives, and high-level deliverables across the entire project portfolio, collaborating closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional leadership.
• Conduct comprehensive feasibility analyses and risk assessments across all projects, ensuring risks are proactively identified, prioritized, and mitigated before impacting cost, schedule, or quality.
• Develop multi-project program roadmaps, including integrated schedules, budget frameworks, and resource plans to ensure successful delivery of the full package.

2. Cross-Project Execution & Performance Management

• Provide strategic direction and leadership to multiple project teams, ensuring smooth coordination and consistent adherence to program timelines, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish robust monitoring systems to track project health across the entire package, including progress, budget performance, interdependence, and resource utilization.
• Identify operational issues or deviations at both the project and program level; implement corrective actions, escalations, or process improvements to maintain delivery momentum.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardized delivery approaches across all projects for efficiency, consistency, and scalability.

3. Executive Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Serve as the primary point of accountability for all stakeholders across the project package, ensuring expectations are clearly defined and consistently met.
• Facilitate high-level communication with executives, clients, and cross-functional leaders through structured reporting, governance meetings, and status reviews.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, proactively managing concerns, aligning priorities, and ensuring transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead negotiations and conflict resolution efforts to remove organizational roadblocks and safeguard program success.

4. Resource & Capacity Management Across the Package

• Lead resource planning across multiple projects, ensuring optimal allocation of personnel, equipment, and materials to meet program objectives.
• Partner with functional managers to forecast staffing needs, resolve capacity gaps, and coordinate required expertise across different workstreams.
• Oversee resource utilization metrics and ensure strategic deployment to avoid bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or project delays.
• Promote a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing among project teams to enhance performance and capability.

5. Quality Governance, Compliance, & Risk Oversight

• Establish and enforce quality governance frameworks across all projects, ensuring deliverables consistently meet organizational standards, industry regulations, and client expectations.
• Oversee the identification, assessment, and management of risks across the project package, including enterprise-level risks with potential cross-project impact.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive mitigation and contingency strategies that preserve timelines, budgets, and quality outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with all internal policies, external regulations, and contractual obligations throughout the project lifecycle.

6. Program Closeout, Optimization, and Continuous Improvement

• Lead structured closeout processes for each project within the package, ensuring all deliverables, documentation, and performance criteria are fully met.
• Conduct cross-project evaluations and consolidated lessons-learned reviews to capture insights, enhance methodologies, and drive future organizational excellence.
• Present final program outcomes to senior leadership, highlighting achievements, performance metrics, risk outcomes, and recommendations for future initiatives.
• Create knowledge repositories, best-practice frameworks, and process standards that elevate the organization’s project maturity and operational efficiency.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 25+ years of experience leading large-scale, multi-project programs within infrastructure, demonstrating record of delivering complex project portfolios on time, within budget, and to quality expectations.
• Proven strategic leadership abilities, with experience guiding and empowering cross-functional project teams, fostering collaboration, and driving high-performance cultures across multiple workstreams.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at executive levels, resolve conflicts, and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Advanced knowledge of project and program management methodologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with a proactive approach to identifying risks, addressing issues, and implementing strategic mitigation plans across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex, and evolving environment, effectively managing competing priorities, shifting demands, and multiple high-visibility projects while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and quality.