Vice President - Highways

Job Description

Position : Vice President - Highways

Reporting to : Chief Operating Officer

Location : Mumbai

Job Summary :

The Vice President for Highways at a leading Infrastructure Company will be an experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully leading multiple Highway/ Roads projects and multi-disciplined teams. This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities for managing engineering and project execution activities related to highway and complete street planning/design. The successful candidate will use their management and leadership skills to drive multiple projects to successful completion.

Job Responsibility :

- Leadership, growth and development of a leading Infrastructure Company in highways adding value to the established national and state capability.

- Preparation of proposal and designs at feasibility, planning and detailed design stages and identifying and leading on added value, sustainable engineering and lean initiatives relating to Highways.

- Creating and providing technical direction to people, stakeholder, cross functional teams, clients, contractors and third parties.

- Managing project delivery including financial management and monitoring and people/team management and building world-class organization.

- Project manage within agreed budget, scope, programme and quality constraints set for the specific/multiple project(s) and deliver the benefits within the business case compliant with NHAI/ others project management procedures and processes.

- Be responsible for creating culture of excellence and provide directions for Business processes to monitor and control project performance through the use of applicable project management tools i.e. risk and issue management, escalation criteria, project tolerances and KPI's.

- Produce formal project progress and financial reports for management team and external use as necessary.

- Procure specialist expertise, advice and guidance regarding engineering, safety, compliance, quality and operations for the design and delivery of works as necessary.

- Be the point of contact on Freedom of Information matters relating to the project(s).

Job Education, Experience and Competencies :

- Must be an Engineer with specialization in Civil Engineering or any other relevance to the role.

- Minimum of 20 years of relevant experience in field of Highways and must have completed successfully minimum 5 Highways Projects with minimum worth of INR 500 Crores and above.

- Should have extensive knowledge in Indian Road congress (IRC), Indian standards and Ministry of Road Transportation & Highways (MORTH) specifications, codes and etc.

- Must be matured enough to manage various stakeholders and construction operational challenges.

- Developed leadership, planning and negotiation skills, with ability to multi task and deal with multi-disciplined problems and issues in a changing environment and make timely sound decisions as the project progresses.

- Strong verbal/written skills, and ability to convey complex information in a constructive manner.

- Must be conversant in English, Hindi and other local language will be desirable.

- Must be hard task master, quick decision maker, positive thinker, strong executive presence and delivers high quality construction work proactively.

- Experience in contract management, negotiation, claims assessment or similar with the ability to administrate and prepare the necessary documentation in support of this.

- Motivated, committed and results orientated, with a desire to achieve results and reach targets.

- Identification of risk, mitigation actions required and mitigation implementation particularly affecting project delivery and achievement of required outcomes.

- Understanding, assessing and implementing corrective action for factors affecting project performance and should be able to take decision on the fly and in quick turn around time.

- Management of multi-disciplined professionals, both internal and external, for all stages in project life-cycles, including construction and other forms of implementation.

- Financial management of projects and budget compliance and reporting.

- Must be hands on in MS office, Auto CAD and relevant construction tools.

- Excellent in negotiating and persuasive skills, both in one-on-one or group discussions.