About setec KSA

Setec is one of the world’s leaders in multidisciplinary engineering; an independent group owned by its engineers who rely on their talent, passion, and know-how. Over the last 60 years, Setec has gained an international reputation for services excellence, with a workforce of over 3,300 multidisciplinary specialists throughout the world.

Setec has prestigious references for a wide range of fields that cover infrastructure, transport, water engineering, energy efficient buildings, industrial installations, and project management consultancy services. Playing a role on some of the largest current design & construction projects worldwide, the group’s engineers take on challenges in real estate development by bringing value to the projects they engage.

Key accountabilities

You are responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of day to day operations, studio overall performance, ensuring key deliverables and milestones are achieved with continuous process improvement.

Key Responsabilities

• Driving the Design Studio’s successful establishment, operations and hand-over using proactive management, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Focus on and be accountable for actualizing core business segments:

(1) Establishing an efficient operating Studio building on the current working studio offices including the physical plant and all operational systems & procedures

(2) Establishing the associated digital platform including web portal, library-archives, general administration, outreach, intraoperative and external parties training, submissions compliance certification workflow, and monitoring-reporting.

(3) Transacting the compliance review of submittals against set criteria on Urban Identities, Architectural Identity Guidelines (AIGs) including third party orientation-process induction, advice, submissions-review-certification, site audits, directives-guidelines-codes feedback and continuous process improvement/QA/QC review and feedback.

• Manage and be accountable for the business: facilities establishment, requirements fulfillment strategy, key deliverables during Phase 1 Establishment period & Ph.2 Operations period corresponding Objectives-Key Results-KPIs development-monitoring-enforcement, associated policies & procedures, program devpment-management, human-equipment-facilities resourcing & management, and budget-cost-accounting-P&L management.
• Assessing business requirements across all Design Studio segments.
• Collaborating with the Client to secure and maintain all required business registrations, licenses, and accounts.
• Managing operations and Supervising the Design Studio staff & works.
• Designing deployment schedules commensurate
• Designing and presiding over the employee performance appraisal process.
• Ensuring the workplace is conducive to maximum productivity, safe, free of security issues and in compliance with all government regulations.
• Preparing robust cross-coordinated business and program execution plans.
• Orchestrating workshops, awareness campaigns, brain-storming sessions, third party consultations, education seminars, town halls and making effective content-rich presentations to the Client, third parties, Setec and the Design Studio staff.
• Managing the Lean Process Design Program improving efficiency, eliminating waste, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and implementing team-wide planning & delivery with focus on making holistic decisions & integration of the business segments.
• Managing the Continuous Quality Improvement Program. Monitoring and implementing navigational actions to optimize and enhance performance.
• Leading the integrated team in driving forward a Center of Excellence.
• Taking ownership of all Design Studio decisions including firm but fair reconciliation of differences.
• Leading and being the Design Studio authorized signatory on all matters of general administrative, commercial, and QA-QC matters.
• Negotiating contracts and purchase orders including sub-consultants, seconded personnel, vendors, and suppliers; organizing & coordinating the same.
• Reviewing and approving the detailed progress and coordination of monthly and quarterly studio operations reports.
• Preparing Design Studio monthly and quarterly business summary including status reports accounting for all Objectives-Key Results-KPIs-P&L across the entire Design Studio business; reconciling the same with and assimilating the path forward with the Client and Setec KSA.

Skills & experience

Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture or Urban Design, with very substantial track record of business and project management responsibility & experience.

Minimum 15 Years post-graduate

• GCC experience, especially KSA
• Experience setting up and managing a Design Studio of approx. 15 personnel requiring the same or similar Responsibilities and Activities as outlined above.
• PMP Certification

• Understanding of legal and regulatory requirements of the business.
• Demonstrated track record of issues and decisions ownership & accountability.
• Demonstrable analytical thinking and business insight.
• Proactive problem averter-mitigator-solver.
• Project Management expertise
• Ability to deliver high quality results on time/on budget in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding leadership abilities; effective, empathic, fair, and inspiring.
• Excellent Client-facing skills.
• Clear, concise & confident communicator: oral, written and reports preparation.
• Fluent in Arabic language both oral and written.
• Proficient in English language both oral and written
• Experience recruiting, training, and managing employees, mentoring and initiating Knowledge transfer programs.
• Proficient in all typical Microsoft Office Applications, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat.
• Proficient in managing & engaging via MS Teams.