Head of Technical Services at Asset & Resource Management Holding Company

Main Responsibilities
Design and Construction:

• Leadership, direction, and management for technical teams. This includes hiring, training, and managing technical personnel, in addition to administering employee performance reviews.
• Leverage technical acumen to suggest new techniques, enhance existing technologies, and ensure projects are delivered to time and cost specifications
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all other technical employees
• Design Projects’ organizational structure
• Be responsible for managing, controlling and approving of all the technical solutions and construction methods provided in the RFQs and bidding documents.
• Ensure all standards as established by Mixta’s safety department and legally required are complied with both by the Mixta staff as well as contractors/ vendors for the project
• Ensure that the necessary licenses required for the site such as construction, usage of pavement (if any), connections to infrastructure etc. are prepared by relevant parties
• Monitor and ensure conformity of materials, installation and construction equipment operated by contractors on construction site against contract and approved technical and other requirement
• Publish frequent reports for the senior management identifying major progress, quality and cost issues impacting the project
• Provide the sales team with technical advice and support
• Oversee each projects’ life cycle from conception to completion, with an emphasis on technical soundness and resource efficiency
• Develop and revise statements of work, which should include accurate time and cost estimates across the board
• Provide leadership to apply architectural and functional specifications to each project, collaborate with our design team to create accurate and detailed mock-ups for market testing and other uses
• Meet with clients to refine and evaluate requirements, strategy and content needs as required
• Assist in creating in-house standards.

Procurement:

• Overall approving authority of all material and service contracts executed by the department
• Organize the implementation of policies, regulations and decisions regimes of the Group
• Puts in place strong checks and balances to prevent fraud; report irregularities right after the occurrence and propose direction of solutions. In case of emergency, report right away by the fastest means of communication possible
• Approve the vendors and price of materials, supplies in coordination with Procurement Head
• Approve the contractors and executing the construction contracts in coordination with the contracts head
• Approve proposals for payment according to contracts, orders that are signed according to regulations in coordination with Contracting Head and Procurement Head.
• Manage the quality, volume, progress of implementations of duties, functions of the Department
• Approve contracts, as assigned by the leaders of The Client to the Company for approval of contracts and authority for approval of spending.

Deliverables:

• Technical Services strategy plan
• Successful delivery of all projects to time and cost budgets
• Value Engineering and Tine and Costs Savings
• Quality Projects that pass all QA/QC assessments
• Progress report on all Mixta development projects
• Policy and process review report.

Requirements
Education, Experience and Other Requirements

• Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent) in Construction, Architecture, Civil Engineering
• 15 years of professional experience; 3-5 years of experience within a similar role
• Experience in the management of multi-million-dollar construction project with oversight in both the property development and the financial management
• International experience (across African countries) will be an advantage
• Second Degree in Finance, an MBA Degree or well recognized project management course will be required for the role

Skills:

• Superior communication skills, both verbal and oral (In English and French)
• Excellent understanding of real estate market and associated industries
• Expertise in procurement best practices owing to experience in working with internationally reputed firms/ real estate developers
• Thorough understanding of the principles and application of good corporate governance, business and operational risk and control processes and procedures
• Gathers information nationally and internationally about what could be; visualizes the future and assesses what needs to change; thinks strategically, considers wider effects thoroughly, including customers, shareholders and people; promotes and builds enthusiasm for the vision.
• Balances the needs of the stakeholder triangle; assimilates and analyses relevant information; identifies core principles, and applies them consistently to decisions; identifies and mitigates risks; creative in providing solutions; owns decisions.
• Good planning/project management skills
• Exceptional negotiation, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Outstanding people leadership and management skills. Ability to drive change management across the organization
• Sets milestones and timeframes to achieve objectives and operational requirements; determines priorities and allocates responsibilities and manages workflow; establishes measures and monitoring systems; monitors unit and individual performance, putting (joint) action plans in place to address areas of non-compliance; anticipates hurdles and has contingency plans to get around them.