Saturday, 25 April 2015

Project Manager ( Facilities Management ) Emirates - United Arab Emirates-Dubai

Project Manager ( Facilities Management )

Emirates - United Arab Emirates-Dubai




Job description

Drive and influence business performance through strong partnership and collaboration with all the business units. Enable the delivery of our corporate objectives by partnering with the business to identify their strategic challenges and priorities to delivering them. Initiate; manage and deliver projects and enhance performance to enable simpler; more efficient; and practical and productive ways of conducting business. Be responsible for facilitating change - across people; processes and systems.

Job Outline:

Drive all business and IT projects in Facilities, making sure that timelines and budgets are met and that value is realised from projects

Report on performance of the department against operational and customer satisfaction measures
Provide quality assurance/ business process improvement recommendations

Support in formulating and documenting future facilities strategy

Identify; recommend and implement business improvement projects and initiatives to deliver the strategic business plans. Collaborate; support and in some cases initiate with the business and relevant business partners to focus on cross functional; high impact; far reaching; and potentially high conflict projects. Fully support performance and productivity enhancements to deliver sustainable growth whilst remaining agile.

  • Partner with the business and relevant support departments to actively seek and advise them on improvement opportunities. Proactively manage relationships with the stakeholders to drive close collaboration and partnership to rapidly resolve issues and concerns and mitigate risks. Ensure that post implementation reviews are conducted on high priority projects to ensure that the intended benefits to the business are realised.
  • Key Performance Indicators- Ensure department KPI's are developed and aligned to the strategic plan. Participate in the Senior Management meetings of departments and ensure that business performance is monitored and regularly communicated against agreed targets. Influence; agree and ensure that there are action plans to address underperforming KPI's.
  • Be fully informed of industry standards/ processes and inspire the adoption of best practice through continuous challenge of status quo to enable effective management of growth.
  • Continuously enhance and create new services through active participation in the Service Development teams. Ensure project deliverables are documented; and posted on the Performance Development site to enable collaboration; sharing and knowledge and skills transfer across the department. Act as a coach and mentor to the business and key partners to transfer skills and specialist knowledge in business improvement methodologies (e.g. LEAN; Six Sigma; consulting methodologies; Supply Chain; business analytics; simulation; customer engagement; innovation; etc.); and the implementation and management of change management techniques.
  • Encourage the creation and management of a portfolio of projects and the adoption and application of strong project governance within specific business departments to effectively manage; maintain; monitor and report on their projects. Act as a partner; coach; mentor and guide along with the Project Management Office team in providing good project governance.
  • Develop; coach and motivate the team of professionals in the department in a selection of tools; techniques and consulting methodologies. Provide performance related feedback for the team working with the job holder and suggest development opportunities to address gaps; if any.
  • Support and enable the delivery of a 2-5 year business strategy and prioritised strategic plan for the business unit. Maintain; update and monitor the plan whilst considering the changing needs of the business and the evolution of the industry.
  • Drive and support cross functional initiatives and continually enhance performance through consultation; collaboration; projects and support activities; including; but not limited to resource planning (e.g. manpower; equipment; fuel; etc.); organisational design; supply chain management; customer engagement; innovation and long term planning.
  • Ensure the presence of a Long Term Plan within specific business departments with a particular focus on the Manpower Plan. Collaborate and partner with the business; and other relevant business partners (HR; Finance; etc) during budget discussions to jointly deliver and maintain a 3 year rolling plan.
  • Provide recommendations to business managers ( across all operational areas within the group) to plan actions to optimise operational efficiency through systematically collating and analysing qualitative and quantitative drivers and available data impacting operational performance.
  • Guide and enable relevant stakeholders across all operational areas by providing business intelligence summaries and drill into specific operational processes; highlighting trends / deviations; in order to take corrective measures.
  • Represent networkwide operations at internal meetings and external stakeholder meetings; in order to share information on the health of the emirates operations and agree way forward.


  • Qualifications & Experience

    Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
    · Graduate in Industrial Engineering, or graduate level education in scientific/ commercial discipline with postgraduate degree/ diploma in Industrial Engineering / Operations Research.
    Minimum 8 years working experience in the fields related to processes and productivity improvement in a reputed organisation, although if the experience is in the airline or airport services industry, and/or in the areas of Performance Development or Consultancy relevant to Airline Industry, then the experience may be relaxed by two years.
    Good understanding of Project Management. Business Knowledge of the units responsible for. Understand the working and critical factors for the unit.
    People management skills to be able to handle the diverse group of staff and conflict situations in the job situation.
    Technical skills Basic knowledge of Innovation techniques; programme management; customer relationship management
    Advanced knowledge of process improvement; organisation design; project management; business planning
    For PDM -Operational Analysis Advanced knowledge and skills in operational and statistical analysis and thorough knowledge of the operational areas within the EK group.
    An excellent communicator; able to translate complex data into simple proposals Be a subject matter expert and have thorough understanding and natural interest in optimizing technology to deliver business information

    Salary and Benefits

    Tomorrow you could be living in dynamic Dubai and earning a tax-free salary with global benefits. Starting with two aircraft and a handful of enthusiastic people, we have grown at a phenomenal rate. We are now one of the fastest growing airlines in the world, flying to over 125 destinations across 6 continents. We are looking for people to join our global family of over 54,000 people from 160 nationalities across a diverse range of disciplines. If you are a high performer, seeking unparalleled career opportunities, join the Emirates team and help us create the future of travel.

    We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE. The Dirham is linked to the Special Drawing Right of the International Monetary Fund and it has been held constant against the US dollar since the end of 1980 at a mid-rate of approximately US$1=Dh3.66. Besides generous travel benefits normally associated with an airline, this managerial role also has excellent leave and health care packages, accommodation, power and water paid for, along with transport benefits, life insurance and other employee benefits making the role attractive to high performers. By viewing the 'Dubai Lifestyle' section in the careers website you can also consider the many benefits of Dubai as a location to live and work in.

    Job Category: Facility & Building Management

    Primary Location: United Arab Emirates-Dubai

    Please submit your application before 16-May-15, 11:59:00 PM GMT+4hours

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