Associate Director Infrastructure

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 112offices worldwide.

The Associate Director - Infrastructure will lead the successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects and programs across Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE. The role requires strategic leadership, client relationship management, commercial oversight, and multidisciplinary project delivery expertise across sectors including transportation, utilities, roads and highways, rail, aviation, ports, water, energy, and urban development.

The successful candidate will provide leadership to project teams, act as a trusted advisor to clients, and ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, sustainably, and in accordance with client objectives and government regulations.

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure projects/programmes across the lifecycle, ideally across sectors and clients. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy.
• Excellent leadership skills, capable of setting high standards and managing performance against these, utilising people and resources efficiently to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Able to succeed in ambiguous and challenging environments.
• Leads and is accountable for the health, safety, and wellbeing of those within your sphere of responsibility. Has a practical understanding of CDM and is able to apply this appropriately across teams.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and determine applicable solutions, innovating as necessary, through your depth of understanding of stakeholder needs. Can do this sustainably.
• Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, diving a ‘one business’ collaboration mindset within T&T and across clients.
• Foster client and industry partnerships, developing and growing relationships.
• Able to use your leadership skills and influence to bring our purpose and vision to life, expanding your impact as you do.
• Coach and mentor others and encourage development of people around you, and you have a thirst for learning; using this to develop best practice. You spot, harness and nurture emerging potential.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with a diverse range of personalities across clients and partner organisations and able to build long‑term trusted advisor relationships with our clients.
• Creative, curious and growth mindset, and acts as a role model.
• Promoter of inclusive environments, acting as a role model.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure project or program management.
• Proven experience delivering major infrastructure developments within the UAE or GCC region.
• Experience managing large multidisciplinary project teams and external consultants.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure planning, design, procurement, construction, and handover processes.
• Experience managing complex stakeholder environments, including government entities and utility authorities.
• Strong knowledge of project controls, risk management, governance, and reporting.
• Experience administering and managing FIDIC contracts and major infrastructure procurement strategies.
• Demonstrated success in client relationship management and business development activities.
• Experience working on Abu Dhabi government projects.
• Experience in transportation, rail, aviation, utilities, energy, water, or smart city developments.
• Consultancy and client-side…