Construction Manager - Utilities Diversion and Traffic Management

About the role

AECOM is seeking a Construction Manager to lead the delivery of enabling works on a major rail project in Dubai. The role covers overall leadership, contractual and commercial management, and ensures delivery excellence in line with client and company objectives. It focuses on the relocation, diversion, protection and reinstatement of utilities and traffic systems.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage enabling works for rail corridors, stations, depots, viaducts, bridges and tunnels, and coordinate with authorities, utility providers, designers and contractors.
• Identify, verify and coordinate wet and dry utilities, including potable water, sewerage, stormwater, irrigation, district cooling, electrical HV/LV, telecommunications, gas, street lighting and traffic systems.
• Prepare utility diversion strategies, review as-built drawings, GIS data, survey data and trial pits, and ensure detection, protection, temporary and permanent diversion and decommissioning.
• Coordinate NOCs, permits, approvals, shutdowns, tie-ins and service diversions, and oversee diversion drawings, method statements, temporary works, traffic management plans and construction sequencing.
• Manage interfaces between rail works, utilities, roads, existing assets and third parties, monitor progress against baseline programmes and control variations, claims and cost changes.
• Lead coordination meetings with the Client, PMC/Consultant, Contractor, utility authorities and designers, and monitor contractor performance, manpower and resources.
• Supervise excavation around live utilities, temporary utility arrangements, planned shutdowns and cutovers, and ensure testing, commissioning, pressure testing, CCTV inspection and authority acceptance.
• Relocate HV, MV and LV electrical cables, telecom, fiber-optic and ICT cables, and street lighting, traffic signals and ITS/CCTV networks, including live cable crossings and temporary power and communication arrangements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline (BSc, BEng or MEng).
• Minimum 20 years of experience managing large-scale rail projects.
• Proven track record delivering projects worth over AED 1 billion.
• Strong commercial and contract management experience, including claims and negotiations.
• Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams in a matrix organization.
• Chartered status or membership of a recognized professional body (MICE, MCIOB, MRICS) preferred; PMP or equivalent project management certification is an advantage.

What we offer

• Benefits depending on employment status, which may include medical, dental, vision, life and disability cover, paid time off, flexible work options, well-being resources, an employee assistance program, business travel insurance, a retirement savings plan and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Training and development programs and a global team working on projects across the industry.