Project Director in Glasgow

Do you want to lead on our major projects? Can you inspire others and build good relations with our clients? Are you an experienced Project Director? Then, this is the place to apply your knowledge and curiosity to enable a better tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow. To deliver major infrastructure projects, we are looking for a Project Director to join us. Working on a variety of different projects, you’ll contribute to planning, bidding, overseeing and completing the projects that are part of COWI’s portfolio.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Planning and operating assigned projects within your portfolio, including risk management, interface management, resource management
• Key account and project client management
• Contract review and negotiation
• Preparing bids, including fee proposals, technical responses, programmes, tender designs, risk screenings and bid submission notes
• Completing projects in compliance with the COWI Quality Management System and utilising the Operational Excellence Project Management tools
• Achieving project financial, schedule, quality and client satisfaction goals
• Ensuring appropriate technical oversight/review is provided to the project team
• Project closure activities, including preparation of design cost statistics, updating of team member resumes and preparation of content for project reference sheets
• Contributing to regular month‑end closure activities including project estimates, resolving project overruns
• Long‑term planning sheets and resource planning
• Growing the business with clients, including taking advantage of cross‑selling opportunities

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for your team and supporting them in taking ownership of their work. You always delegate responsibility and ensure an open and safe dialogue, and you coach your people to achieve their aspirations through constructive, fact‑based feedback. Attracting and nurturing a diverse group of high‑potential team members is at the top of your agenda, as is creating an inclusive, caring and trusting culture in your team.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Engineering degree with a post‑graduate degree preferred in engineering or professional disciplines
• Project management experience for large, complex projects and line management or project portfolio management experience
• Experience working with major infrastructure projects
• Experience and ability to see projects through from concept to completion within a professional service environment
• Efficient leadership skills and proven ability to supervise and motivate teams
• Well‑developed understanding of business operations combined with practical technical knowledge
• Creative written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated capacity to manage and support others during complex, uncertain, and changing situations
• Self‑motivated, organized and able to handle multiple tasks in a growing environment
• Professional organizational and time‑management skills
• Willingness and ability to travel to suit project needs
• Innovative and creative mindset

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

• 28 days' holiday (plus bank and public holidays)
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme
• Corporate gym membership

Got more questions? If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM. Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.