Senior Vice President – Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects.

Black Pearl is supporting a confidential executive search for a major asset-intensive organization in the UAE seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President Power Infrastructure & Capital Projects.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and leading a major capital projects portfolio from determining infrastructure investment priorities and long-term development requirements through engineering governance execution commissioning and handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of major power energy and infrastructure capital projects.
  
• Drive long-term capital planning project prioritization and investment decisions.
  
• Determine infrastructure development requirements based on future capacity demand asset performance and business priorities.
  
• Lead major projects across power generation transmission distribution substations grid infrastructure and associated assets.
  
• Oversee projects from feasibility and concept development through engineering procurement construction commissioning and handover.
  
• Establish strong portfolio governance project controls risk management and performance frameworks.
  
• Provide executive oversight of CAPEX budgets schedules contractors consultants and project performance.
  
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering project management commercial and technical teams.
  
• Manage senior relationships with regulators authorities developers consultants EPC contractors and strategic partners.
  
• Ensure capital projects support long-term network reliability capacity expansion modernization and operational requirements.
  

Requirements

We are particularly interested in senior executives who have worked on the asset owner/developer side of large power or infrastructure organizations and have had responsibility beyond project execution.

Candidates should ideally demonstrate experience in:

• Large-scale power generation transmission and/or distribution infrastructure
  
• Multi-billion capital project or infrastructure portfolios
  
• Capital investment planning and portfolio prioritization
  
• Infrastructure master planning and network expansion
  
• Major EPC and engineering projects
  
• Portfolio governance and executive-level decision-making
  
• CAPEX planning and financial accountability
  
• Contractor consultant and commercial management
  
• Government regulatory and senior stakeholder engagement
  
• Leading large multidisciplinary teams
  

Potential Relevant Titles

Candidates currently or previously holding titles such as the following may be particularly relevant:

SVP / VP Projects VP Capital Projects VP Major Projects Executive Director Projects Executive Director Power Projects Head of Capital Projects Head of Major Projects Director Power Projects Director Transmission Projects Director Generation Projects Director Grid Infrastructure Director Infrastructure Development Programme Director Power Infrastructure

Candidates currently based in the UAE are preferred followed by candidates with relevant GCC experience. International candidates should ideally come directly from the power electricity energy or closely related infrastructure sector and be operating at a comparable functional and leadership level.

This is a confidential search and further information regarding the organization will be shared with suitably qualified candidates at the appropriate stage of the recruitment process.

Interested candidates are invited to submit an updated CV highlighting the value and scale of capital portfolios managed power infrastructure exposure decision-making authority team size CAPEX responsibility and major projects delivered.

Only candidates whose experience closely aligns with the requirements will be contacted