# Sr HR Manager - Construction Industry

**Company:** [The Greater Change](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/uLYmtjqLjzXPXYiioViao1.md)
**Location:** Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** The Greater Change

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## Description

**Industry:** Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure  
**Reporting To:** Chief Executive Officer (CEO)  
**Location:** Abu Dhabi, UAE

### Role Purpose

The Senior HR Manager is a strategic business leader responsible for developing and executing the organization’s human capital strategy to support business growth, project excellence, and long-term sustainability. The role ensures alignment between people strategy, organizational capability, leadership development, and workforce performance across all business units.

This role will foster a high-performance culture while ensuring strict compliance with UAE labor law, Emiratization policies, and international HR best practices in a complex, multi-project contracting environment.

### Key Responsibilities

### Strategic HR Leadership

-   Develop and execute a long-term HR strategy aligned with corporate goals.
-   Translate business objectives into workforce planning, organizational design, and talent strategies.
-   Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO on succession planning, leadership development, and people risk management.

### Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

-   Lead recruitment strategies for executive, technical, and operational positions.
-   Strengthen employer branding within the construction and engineering sector.
-   Oversee manpower planning, mobilization, and demobilization across multiple projects.

### Performance, Learning & Development

-   Design and implement performance management frameworks.
-   Lead leadership development and succession planning initiatives.
-   Drive continuous learning, competency development, and capability building.

### Employee Relations & Culture

-   Enhance employee engagement, retention, and organizational culture.
-   Manage grievance handling, disciplinary procedures, and investigations.
-   Promote diversity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing initiatives.

### Governance & Compliance

-   Ensure compliance with UAE labor law, WPS, visas, and Emiratization.
-   Maintain HR policies, procedures, and audit readiness.
-   Oversee HR risk management and governance reporting.

### Digital HR Transformation

-   Lead HRIS implementation and HR automation initiatives.
-   Utilize HR analytics for data-driven workforce decisions.

## Requirements

### Experience & Qualifications

-   Atleast 10+ years of HR leadership experience within construction or engineering organizations.
-   Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field.
-   Strong knowledge of UAE labor law and GCC HR practices.
-   Proven experience managing large, multicultural workforces.

### Skills & Competencies

-   Strategic and business-driven mindset.
-   Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation abilities.
-   High integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality

## Benefits

### Compensation & Benefits

-   Offered Salary: Upto 30K + Benefits