Urbanization Projects Department Manager

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Public Works Engineering, or equivalent qualification.

• Minimum professional experience of approximately 15 years.

• Profiles with less experience may be valued only when they present an especially solid and relevant career path.

• Consolidated experience in civil engineering projects and, especially, urbanization projects.

• Experience developing and leading complete projects.

• Experience coordinating technical teams, areas, specialties, or project groups.

• Ability to simultaneously manage different projects, clients, and priorities.

• Solid technical judgment and a global vision of projects.

• Experience in relations with clients and administrations.

• Ability to make decisions with a technical, organizational, and strategic perspective.

• Knowledge of AutoCAD and standard project drafting tools.

• Professional understanding of Catalan. Ability to speak it is valued.

• English valued.

The position is especially oriented towards professionals from large engineering firms who:

• Currently lead complete projects or a technical specialty.

• Hold positions such as Senior Project Manager, Area Manager, Urbanization Manager, or second-line management within a department.

• Have the experience and capacity to assume greater responsibility.

• Find their development limited by having a very consolidated hierarchical structure above them.

• Seek to take the step towards managing a department within a medium-sized and growing engineering firm.

Profiles excessively specialized only in railway or linear works will not be prioritized if they do not also have significant experience in urbanization.

• Close leadership and ability to develop teams.

• Empathy and ease in relating to different profiles.

• Clear communication and ability to explain, delegate, and follow up.

• Ability to generate trust and cohesion.

• Customer orientation.

• Strategic judgment and decision-making capacity.

• Organization and prioritization.

• Technical rigor.

• Ability to combine management and technical participation.

• Motivation to assume responsibility and build a long-term project.

• Joining a medium-sized, consolidated, and growing engineering firm.

• Leadership of one of the company's most relevant technical areas.

• A real career path towards the global coordination of the Projects Department.

• Participation in large-scale and high-impact urbanization projects.

• Ability to influence the organization, procedures, and team development.

• Multidisciplinary and collaborative technical environment.

• A stable project with visibility within the organization.

• Location: Barcelona.

• Indicative gross annual salary: 60,000-65,000 €, depending on experience provided.

At GHC, we are collaborating with a consolidated and leading engineering firm in Catalonia, specializing in urbanization and civil engineering projects, which is looking to hire a Head of Urbanization Projects Department in Barcelona.

We are looking for a senior profile with a solid technical background, experience leading complete projects, and the ability to coordinate teams, resources, clients, and different engineering specialties.

The selected person will initially assume leadership of the Urbanization area, with the objective of progressively evolving towards the global coordination of the Projects Department, once the integration period is completed and the fit with the team has been validated.

To lead urbanization projects technically and organizationally, coordinating the professionals and specialties involved, guaranteeing compliance with quality standards, deadlines, and the commitments made to clients.

In addition to providing technical judgment, they must exercise close leadership, facilitate the team's work, and maintain solid communication with clients and administrations.

• Lead the Urbanization Projects area.

• Coordinate and supervise the execution of projects assigned to the area.

• Directly assume leadership of the most relevant or complex projects.

• Organize workloads, resources, and team priorities.

• Coordinate project managers, engineers, technicians, assistants, and drafters.

• Supervise reports, calculations, plans, specifications, measurements, budgets, and technical documentation.

• Ensure coherence between the different specialties involved in the projects.

• Coordinate transversally with the hydraulics, structures, linear works, and highways areas.

• Provide technical support and facilitate team decision-making.

• Maintain communication with clients, administrations, and other involved parties.

• Detect deviations, risks, or difficulties and establish action plans.

• Coordinate the drafting area and ensure correct resource allocation.

• Participate in planning and monitoring meetings with Management.

• Contribute to the improvement of procedures and the organization of the department.

• Evolve, once the fit is consolidated, towards the global coordination of the Projects Department.