Job ID
49470
Job Title
Roads Project Manager
To work for
Combined Group Contracting Co. - Syria
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Engineering
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Not Specified
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
Job Purpose
The Roads Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end strategic planning, execution, and delivery of complex road, highway, and asphalt paving projects. This role ensures that all construction phases achieve rigid civil engineering compliance, strict adherence to budget constraints, milestone schedules, and high client satisfaction while proactively mitigating massive logistical, traffic management, geotechnical, and environmental risks.
Key Job Responsibilities
1. Strategic Project Planning & Execution Project Execution Plan (PEP): Author, establish, and dynamically update the comprehensive Project Execution Plan to align multi-kilometer linear site operations with corporate objectives and contractual timelines.
Schedule & Milestone Management: Oversee the development and maintenance of logic-linked baseline schedules (using Primavera P6 / MS Project). Monitor critical linear paths (e.g., earthworks, sub-base laying, asphalt courses, structures), identify float fluctuations, and execute acceleration plans when required.
2. Financial Governance & Cost Control Budgetary & Cash Flow Control: Manage the project budget, perform regular Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis, monitor variance (specifically targeting mass earthworks and bulk material costs), and maintain positive project cash flow. Commercial Management: Review and approve monthly client progress billings (Invoices based on volumetric quantities) in coordination with the consultant. Mitigate payment delays by ensuring compliance with contract conditions.
Variations & Claims: Identify, quantify, and negotiate Variation Orders and contractual claims related to unexpected ground conditions, utility unforeseen clashes, or scope changes to safeguard the company’s profit margins.
3. Resource Optimization & Workforce Alignment Manpower & Fleet Planning: Formulate strategic resource histograms to forecast engineering, technical, and operator requirements, specifically balancing specialized crew shifts (e.g., asphalt paving teams, structural concrete teams).Mobilization & Demobilization Strategy: Design and execute highly cost-efficient mobilization and demobilization schedules for specialized heavy machinery (e.g., excavators, graders, pavers, milling machines, rollers) to eliminate downtime, optimize fuel consumption, and reduce operational overhead.
4. Subcontractor & Cross-Departmental Interface Management
Subcontractor Governance: Prequalify, select, schedule, and evaluate the performance of specialized sub-contractors (e.g., piling, road marking, signage, street lighting) and vendors. Ensure absolute alignment with the main contract specifications.
Internal Synergy: Drive seamless cross-functional coordination with critical supporting corporate divisions including Contracts, Procurement (for bulk bitumen, aggregates, and steel), Logistics, HR, and Finance to streamline material delivery and resource flow.
5. External Stakeholder Management & Statutory Approvals Client & Consultant Relations: Act as the primary interface for the company. Cultivate strong relations with clients, PMC (Project Management Consultants), and strategic partners. Statutory & Government Clearances: Lead the end-to-end coordination with municipal authorities, traffic police departments, environmental boards, and utility providers to secure all necessary design approvals, complex Traffic Diversion Plans (TDPs), right-of-way permissions, and final project clearances.
6. Technical Leadership & Performance Evaluation Technical Quality Transfer: Ensure that all execution methodologies (Method Statements for road layers, structural works), Shop Drawings, and alignment profiles are deeply understood by the section engineers and site supervisors. Reporting Architecture: Review and critically analyze daily, weekly, and monthly production reports (linear meters paved, volumes excavated), financial tracking, and administrative reports to deploy immediate corrective actions. Team Empowerment: Provide mentorship, resolve cross-disciplinary engineering conflicts (e.g., structural vs. earthworks), and conduct formal performance reviews for all core team subordinates.
Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) & QA/QC Responsibilities Policy Enforcement: Guarantee the unconditional execution of the project’s Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) (e.g., compaction tests, asphalt core testing, concrete slump tests) and Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) management systems.
Traffic & Field Risk Management: Conduct proactive risk assessments concerning live traffic diversions, deep structural excavations, heavy lifts for bridge elements, and public safety interface management.
Leadership by Example: Champion site safety culture by strictly adhering to and enforcing the wear of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including safety helmets, steel-toe boots, high-visibility class 3 vests (essential for road work), and protective eyewear at all times.
The Roads Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end strategic planning, execution, and delivery of complex road, highway, and asphalt paving projects. This role ensures that all construction phases achieve rigid civil engineering compliance, strict adherence to budget constraints, milestone schedules, and high client satisfaction while proactively mitigating massive logistical, traffic management, geotechnical, and environmental risks.
Key Job Responsibilities
1. Strategic Project Planning & Execution Project Execution Plan (PEP): Author, establish, and dynamically update the comprehensive Project Execution Plan to align multi-kilometer linear site operations with corporate objectives and contractual timelines.
Schedule & Milestone Management: Oversee the development and maintenance of logic-linked baseline schedules (using Primavera P6 / MS Project). Monitor critical linear paths (e.g., earthworks, sub-base laying, asphalt courses, structures), identify float fluctuations, and execute acceleration plans when required.
2. Financial Governance & Cost Control Budgetary & Cash Flow Control: Manage the project budget, perform regular Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis, monitor variance (specifically targeting mass earthworks and bulk material costs), and maintain positive project cash flow. Commercial Management: Review and approve monthly client progress billings (Invoices based on volumetric quantities) in coordination with the consultant. Mitigate payment delays by ensuring compliance with contract conditions.
Variations & Claims: Identify, quantify, and negotiate Variation Orders and contractual claims related to unexpected ground conditions, utility unforeseen clashes, or scope changes to safeguard the company’s profit margins.
3. Resource Optimization & Workforce Alignment Manpower & Fleet Planning: Formulate strategic resource histograms to forecast engineering, technical, and operator requirements, specifically balancing specialized crew shifts (e.g., asphalt paving teams, structural concrete teams).Mobilization & Demobilization Strategy: Design and execute highly cost-efficient mobilization and demobilization schedules for specialized heavy machinery (e.g., excavators, graders, pavers, milling machines, rollers) to eliminate downtime, optimize fuel consumption, and reduce operational overhead.
4. Subcontractor & Cross-Departmental Interface Management
Subcontractor Governance: Prequalify, select, schedule, and evaluate the performance of specialized sub-contractors (e.g., piling, road marking, signage, street lighting) and vendors. Ensure absolute alignment with the main contract specifications.
Internal Synergy: Drive seamless cross-functional coordination with critical supporting corporate divisions including Contracts, Procurement (for bulk bitumen, aggregates, and steel), Logistics, HR, and Finance to streamline material delivery and resource flow.
5. External Stakeholder Management & Statutory Approvals Client & Consultant Relations: Act as the primary interface for the company. Cultivate strong relations with clients, PMC (Project Management Consultants), and strategic partners. Statutory & Government Clearances: Lead the end-to-end coordination with municipal authorities, traffic police departments, environmental boards, and utility providers to secure all necessary design approvals, complex Traffic Diversion Plans (TDPs), right-of-way permissions, and final project clearances.
6. Technical Leadership & Performance Evaluation Technical Quality Transfer: Ensure that all execution methodologies (Method Statements for road layers, structural works), Shop Drawings, and alignment profiles are deeply understood by the section engineers and site supervisors. Reporting Architecture: Review and critically analyze daily, weekly, and monthly production reports (linear meters paved, volumes excavated), financial tracking, and administrative reports to deploy immediate corrective actions. Team Empowerment: Provide mentorship, resolve cross-disciplinary engineering conflicts (e.g., structural vs. earthworks), and conduct formal performance reviews for all core team subordinates.
Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) & QA/QC Responsibilities Policy Enforcement: Guarantee the unconditional execution of the project’s Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) (e.g., compaction tests, asphalt core testing, concrete slump tests) and Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) management systems.
Traffic & Field Risk Management: Conduct proactive risk assessments concerning live traffic diversions, deep structural excavations, heavy lifts for bridge elements, and public safety interface management.
Leadership by Example: Champion site safety culture by strictly adhering to and enforcing the wear of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including safety helmets, steel-toe boots, high-visibility class 3 vests (essential for road work), and protective eyewear at all times.
Qualifications
• Bachelor degree in Engineering.
• Must have from 12 years of working experience.
• Minimum 4 years as a project manager.
• Certificate in Professional Project Management (PMP) as an advantage.
• Must have from 12 years of working experience.
• Minimum 4 years as a project manager.
• Certificate in Professional Project Management (PMP) as an advantage.
Salary and Benefits
Competitive package.
About us
Combined Group Contracting Company (CGC) was established in 1965 in Kuwait as a limited liability company with a total paid capital of KD 7,500 (approximately USD 28,000 ). The company became a publicly traded shareholding company with a paid up capital of KD KD 12,276,917/700 approximately US$ 40,611,530/- Our activities now span the oil sector where we have become main contractors for pipelines for companies such as Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC), Kuwait National Petroleum Co. and the Joint Operations (JO). In the Roads and Infrastructure sector, CGC currently executing several large projects and has the highest degree of specialization in the roads and infrastructure sector From Bridges, Tunneling. CGC in 2007 was able to successfully penetrate the power generation industry and was awarded a contract for the supply, erection, and 5 years operation and maintenance of a 305 Megawatts power plant in Subbiya, Kuwait. The phases of supply, erection has been completed on the year of 2009 and now maintenance contract is undergoing. Supporting our contracting activities, CGC owns Asphalt Plants, Ready-Mix concrete batching plants and wide and diverse fleet ranging from heavy specialized equipment of light vehicles both in Qatar and Kuwait. With a dominant role in contracting in Kuwait, Qatar and UAE, CGC successfully executed projects in Iraq, Oman, Sudan, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Georgian, Magnolia and Uzbekistan, CGC is a building partner you can rely on an and Syria
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Posted On
Jul 05, 2026
Expiry Date
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