Programme Director (Construction) - Africa

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT Marine Systems plc</span> (<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT</span>) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies, products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT</span> is an exciting company where high-quality results are rewarded. We are ambitious and constantly seek to innovate in order to deliver better products and services to our customers. We strive to make <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT </span>a rewarding and challenging place to work, where talented, hard-working individuals have the opportunity to make a real impact across the marine industry.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Role Overview<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> –</span> P<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">rogramme Director</span></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The role of P<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">rogramme Director</span> will be permanently located in <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">East Africa</span> or willing to work a set in-country working pattern. You as an individual will have previous experience of working in the Africa's or Middle East region and either already live in; or be willing to relocate to country for the duration of the project.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The role is an extremely “hands-on” position where you will have overall management of <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT</span> in-country teams. Here you will be instrumental in the management and execution of significant complex projects that involve the building of infrastructure such as data centres, control rooms, communication towers and commercial buildings, along with the installation of complex electrical systems that include power systems and sensitive communication equipment across a number of our projects in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">East Africa</span> region.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>The role is to understand, plan and manage the required process to complete the projects and to co-ordinate and actively manage the multiple contractors, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SRT</span>’s own resources and logistics to successfully complete each site and ultimately the whole project.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>You as our P<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">rogramme Director</span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> </span>will be able to demonstrate a track record of managing and delivering similar projects in non-Western countries. 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