Our client is seeking a Program Manager.
To oversee the planning, execution, and control of a Metro portfolio, ensuring alignment with company strategies. Ensure the project is executed with high quality from start to finish. Provide strategic advice, monitor performance, and coordinate with partners to maintain compliant, efficient, and results-driven delivery. Ensure program management components align with the company's strategic objectives, governance frameworks, quality standards, approved budgets, and operational excellence standards.
Roles & Responsibilities:
* Ensure Gold Line Metro rail design projects' objectives are aligned with the company's strategy, Dubai Strategic Plan, and Rail Network Plan 2032, with a focus on design standards, asset lifecycle, and infrastructure integration.
* Ensure consistency between program objectives and Dubai's wider urban development frameworks and approved transport and infrastructure masterplan.
* Ensure Gold Line Metro projects comply with the governance framework and corporate and technical standards.
* Lead strategic committees for Gold Line Metro projects and coordinate corporate partnerships, memberships, and participation in external forums/agreements; follow up on outputs and performance commitments.
Operations
* Review and track design submissions, contractor mobilization, and work design progress to support delivery milestones.
* Conduct review and provide preliminary approvals on vendor and contractor deliverables to ensure alignment with program requirements, rail design standards and agreed specifications.
* Monitor lifecycle and performance including milestones, budgets, resource utilization, risk/challenge analysis and deliverables; prepare progress and completion reports and highlight deviations and recovery actions to the CEO.
* Provide oversight of value engineering reviews at key stages, reviewing comprehensive reports with recommendations for cost reduction, service improvement, and operational resilience.
* Oversee and align multidisciplinary rail design, review, and approval process covering architectural, structural, civil, MEP, accessibility, and signage elements including amendments and updates to ensure compliance.
Process Improvement
Champion digital transformation and predictive project control by integrating advanced tools
(e.g., BIM, GIS, AI-enabled project tracking) into design and commercial governance.
* Review performance reports and statistical data to identify challenges and propose actionable
solutions.
* Assist in dissemination of pioneering practices and lessons learned from projects in rail.
* Guide the benchmarking of rail design performance against global best practices and lead
continuous-improvement initiatives.
* Provide recommendations on AI initiatives (including Proof of Concepts and use-case
validation); ensure compliance with corporate documents.
* Promote a culture of innovation and motivate departments to adopt cutting-edge solutions.
* Support capacity-building sessions and awareness initiatives to strengthen program and
project delivery capabilities.