Project Director

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups.

In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Project Director to join our team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Providing overall leadership and strategic direction for the successful delivery of the project, ensuring alignment with client objectives, project requirements, and KEO standards.
• Acting as the senior point of contact for the client and key project stakeholders, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Leading and managing a multidisciplinary project team, ensuring effective coordination, collaboration, and accountability.
• Establishing and maintaining project delivery strategies, governance structures, processes, and performance standards.
• Overseeing project programme, budget, resources, procurement, commercial performance, and overall delivery to ensure project objectives are achieved.
• Monitoring project progress against approved programme, budget, scope, and quality requirements, identifying potential risks and implementing appropriate mitigation measures.
• Providing strategic oversight of design development, technical coordination, construction activities, and project interfaces.
• Ensuring effective coordination between the client, consultants, contractors, authorities, and other project stakeholders.
• Leading project meetings and providing clear direction on critical project matters, decisions, and actions.
• Managing project risks, opportunities, changes, and complex issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery.
• Overseeing project controls, reporting, document control, change management, and governance requirements.
• Reviewing and monitoring contractor and consultant performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project requirements.
• Supporting the management of variations, claims, commercial issues, and contractual matters in coordination with the commercial and contracts teams.
• Ensuring that health, safety, quality, environmental, and sustainability requirements are maintained throughout the project.
• Providing regular senior-level reporting to the client and KEO management on project progress, programme, cost, risks, and key decisions.
• Developing and…