Project Manager

Role Description
• This is a full-time, on-site role for a Project Manager, located in Uyo. The Project Manager will oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of healthcare-related projects, ensuring they align with the organization’s mission and client objectives. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, budgets, and resources, conducting inspections, resolving logistical challenges, and ensuring timely delivery of project milestones. The role also involves active communication with stakeholders to ensure project alignment and success.

What You’ll Do:
• Provide strategic leadership across the entire project lifecycle, setting governance, reporting lines, and decision-making frameworks.
• Develop and manage integrated project schedules Primavera P6 / MS Project ensuring design, procurement, construction, and commissioning milestones are achieved.
• Oversee project budgeting, cost control, and financial performance, collaborating closely with Finance and Commercial teams.
• Supervise all construction activities, civil, structural, architectural, and MEP, ensuring compliance with approved drawings and specifications.
• Coordinate design and technical approvals, managing constructability and integration across disciplines.
• Drive procurement and contracts, approving key agreements, variations, and claims.
• Champion HSE and QA/QC, promoting a zero-incident safety culture and zero critical defects.
• Identify project risks, implement mitigation strategies, and lead recovery plans for cost or schedule deviations.
• Act as the primary liaison with Board members, consultants, contractors, regulators, and external stakeholders, providing executive-level updates.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team, promoting accountability and knowledge transfer.
• Oversee commissioning, testing, and handover, ensuring seamless transition to operations and facilities management teams.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Construction Management, or related field Master’s preferred.
• Professional certification PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent preferred.
• 18–20+ years of experience delivering large-scale hospitals, high-rise buildings, or infrastructure projects.
• Proficient in Primavera P6, MS Project, ERP systems.
• Deep knowledge of construction methodologies, sequencing, and contract management FIDIC preferred.
• Proven leadership, commercial, financial, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker, decisive, and able to drive complex projects to completion.