Major Accountabilities
1. Design Management & Consultant Coordination
- Oversee all design processes and activities.
- Communicate, collaborate, and manage architectural and engineering consultant offices.
- Contribute to innovative, functional, and aesthetic architectural concepts.
- Ensure building plans, prototypes, and structures operate safely, efficiently, and reliably.
- Ensure all building systems are functional, reliable, and safe.
- Ensure compliance with local safety regulations, building codes, and industry standards.
- Monitor and evaluate consultant performance.
- Report design progress and quality to management.
- Review and validate consultant fees and invoices.
2. Drawings, Specifications & Documentation Review
- Review drawings, specifications, materials, tender packages, and contracts.
- Ensure designs meet project requirements, approved budgets, and timelines.
- Ensure compliance with architectural standards, local regulations, and building laws.
- Coordinate and consolidate multidisciplinary engineering designs.
- Ensure integration of sustainability and energy efficiency solutions into architectural designs.
3. Tendering & Awarding Process
- Participate in contractor and bidder evaluation and selection.
- Handle technical clarifications and contractor queries.
- Arrange and conduct pre-tender and site meetings.
- Prepare and submit required documentation to authorities for construction permits.
- Report tendering progress and updates to management.
4. Construction Phase Management
- Coordinate with consultants and contractors to ensure project delivery according to contract requirements.
- Conduct regular site visits and monitor construction progress.
- Perform periodic inspections to ensure compliance with project specifications and timelines.
- Ensure construction quality and correct installation of building systems according to design specifications and performance standards.
- Support in resolving site issues and managing corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with approved construction permits.
- Manage change requests in coordination with business stakeholders, consultants, and contractors.
- Inform the Head of Projects Department of any expected schedule or budget deviations.
- Review and approve contractor interim payment invoices.
- Monitor contractor performance and report progress and quality to management.
5. Commissioning & Project Closure
- Participate in testing, inspections, documentation, and handover activities (partial and final).
- Verify the quality of completed works and system performance compliance.
- Manage defect rectification and outstanding issues.
- Prepare and track the commissioning documentation checklist.
- Ensure receipt and completeness of final project documentation including:
- As-built drawings
- Equipment warranties
- Operation & Maintenance manuals
- Product data sheets
- Review and approve project acceptance documentation.
- Report closure phase progress to management.
- Review and validate final contractor invoices.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from a recognized Egyptian university.
- +10 years of relevant professional experience.
- Previous site experience with both consultant offices and contracting companies is preferred.
- Experience in automotive and/or industrial projects is highly preferred.
Job-Specific Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong critical thinking abilities
- Active listening
- Effective time management
- Coordination and multitasking skills
- Problem-solving capability
- Project management skills
- Good command of English (written and spoken)
- Proficiency in computer-aided design (CAD) software
Contract Type
- This position will be hired on an outsourcing basis with a three-year contract.
