Senior Construction Director Middle East

About SRT Marine Systems

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems. Headquartered in the UK, the company serves a global customer base and specializes in Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) technologies, products, and systems designed to enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. SRT works with clients ranging from national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

The Role of Senior Construction Director, Middle East

SRT Marine Systems is seeking a Senior Construction Director for its projects in the Middle East region, specifically in Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time, hands-on, site-facing role requiring 5-10 years of experience. The Senior Construction Director will support the Programme Director by leading project delivery, coordinating assigned workstreams, and controlling delivery against agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and customer commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery aligns with scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and customer outcomes.
• Maintain project governance, including delivery reviews, action tracking, decision logs, escalation routes, reporting cycles, and customer-facing progress forums.
• Oversee integrated planning, schedules, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), change control, and delivery forecasts.
• Coordinate in-country delivery across customer, government, regulatory, ICP (In-Country Partner), consultant, subcontractor, and internal SRT interfaces.
• Maintain a regular site presence across in-country site locations, traveling frequently to review progress, resolve blockers, and confirm construction and installation readiness.
• Act as design manager/coordinator during design development, overseeing ICP design consultant deliverables, review cycles, comment responses, approval submissions, and alignment with SRT/customer requirements.
• Coordinate design workshops and reviews between SRT technical teams, the Programme Director, ICP, consultants, customers, and site delivery teams.
• Manage design queries, technical clarifications, deviations, approvals, procurement dependencies, and installation-readiness constraints.
• Ensure construction and design activities comply with applicable in-country health, safety, environmental, and statutory requirements.
• Assist with tender activity, scope interpretation, and delivery advice as required.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Strong, proven experience in project management and delivery of complex construction and system integration projects, including construction delivery interfaces on complex multi-site programs.
• Experience in civil build, construction, and design for communication towers and data centers is highly beneficial.
• International build, construction, and design knowledge is highly beneficial.
• Experience working with in-country partners, design consultants, customer-side stakeholders, government/regulatory stakeholders, and local subcontractors in the Middle East or comparable international delivery environments.
• Ability to review and challenge contractor programs, identify schedule risk, support recovery planning, and translate program issues into practical site actions.
• Strong capability in managing design clarifications, technical deviations, approval dependencies, procurement interfaces, and installation-readiness constraints.
• Experience acting as a design manager, design coordinator, or client-side design lead, including management of consultant deliverables, design review trackers, technical queries, comment close-out, and approval workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of project governance, integrated planning, RAID management, change control, progress reporting, stakeholder management, and commercial delivery awareness.
• Experience supporting a Programme Director or equivalent senior delivery leader by consolidating delivery reporting, escalating risks, and ensuring project execution remains aligned to program objectives.
• Comfortable operating in an extremely hands-on, site-based capacity, with the flexibility to travel regularly across the Middle East for extended periods as project delivery requires.
• IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Project Schedule software including P6 and MSP, CAD).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adjust communication style to suit customers, partners, and internal teams.