Construction Director

Job Description

Overview

The Construction Director will provide overall leadership for project construction activities, ensuring safe, efficient, and successful delivery of major capital projects while achieving quality, schedule, and budget objectives.

Your role

• Lead all site construction activities from mobilization through commissioning and handover.
• Develop and implement construction execution strategies.
• Manage construction management teams, contractors, and subcontractors.
• Drive safety, quality, and productivity performance across the project.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, and construction interfaces.
• Monitor project progress and implement recovery plans where necessary.
• Lead client, contractor, and stakeholder engagement at site level.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, regulatory requirements, and company standards.
• Support commissioning, startup, and operational readiness activities.

About you

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum 15-20 years of construction leadership experience.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale industrial projects.
• Strong knowledge of construction methodologies, project controls, and commissioning processes.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary construction teams within EPC/EPCM environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, semiconductor, or data center projects will be a significant advantage.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Job Type

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

About Us

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.