Chief Operations Officer – Telecom Engineering & Construction Full Time

This is an Executive-Level opportunity for a Global Vice President of Telecom Engineering & Construction to join an established global infrastructure services business. The successful candidate must have extensive telecom project execution experience, proven leadership of large-scale engineering and construction portfolios, and strong expertise across fiber optic, civil works and data centre projects.

Current/recent experience working in the Africa market is mandatory, and any experience managing delivery across multiple continents or countries will be a massive bonus

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Fluent Arabic language skills is mandatory for this role – whilst visa sponsorship cannot be provided, this is a remote role (with international travel) where flexibility can be provided on your home-base locatio

n.

What’s in it for y

ou?

In this Executive-Level role as the Group Director of Engineering & Construction, you will join an established infrastructure engineering company that is operating across multiple continents, working closely with some of the world’s leading telecom and infrastructure companies. You’ll lead and drive strategic leadership across the telecommunications, fibre optic and data centre portfo

lio.

This is a senior leadership position responsible for overseeing both bidding and project delivery functions, driving operational excellence, portfolio performance, governance, and sustainable growth across the business. The role will play a key part in expanding engineering and construction capabilities into emerging digital infrastructure markets while ensuring consistent delivery standards, profitability, and client satisfaction across all reg

ions.

KEY RESPONSIBI

LITIES

Portfolio Leadership & Perf

• ormanceProvide executive oversight and strategic direction to bidding and project delivery teams across all
• Opcos.Drive achievement of portfolio-wide operational, transformation, and business objectives, including bid success rates, revenue delivery, gross margin performance, quality standards, and customer satisf
• action.Ensure seamless coordination between business development, bidding, and project execution teams to maximise end-to-end project lifecycle perfo
• rmance.Review and approve major escalations, strategic bids, programme approaches, change requests, and portfolio risks to ensure alignment with corporate obje
• ctives.Monitor financial performance, schedule adherence, quality delivery, cost optimisation, and risk management across all engineering and construction acti
• vities.Act as the senior escalation point for critical project, client, operational, and organisational chal

lenges.

Business Growth & Strategic Dev

• elopmentLead the expansion of engineering and construction capabilities within fiber optic and data centre
• sectors.Identify new market opportunities and establish capability development and readiness plans across regional operating co
• mpanies.Support business growth through strong client engagement and strategic stakeholder man
• agement.Provide portfolio-level insights, lessons learned, and recommendations to senior leadership and executive com

mittees.

REQ

UIREMENTS

• Essential15+ years of experience delivering telecommunications engineering and construction
• projects.Extensive experience managing large-scale telecom rollouts, fiber optic infrastructure projects, and data centre p
• rogrammes.Proven track record leading multi-country or multi-business-unit project p
• ortfolios.Strong commercial awareness with experience managing revenue, margin, forecasting, and operational pe
• rformance.Experience working with project management, scheduling, and portfolio managem

ent tools.