Projects & Heavy Transport Manager

Role Overview:

• Run the Projects & Heavy Transport Division across the Central Asian region as a general manager, holding full operational, strategic, commercial, and financial (P&L) responsibility for the division's strategy, fleet, and team. This role reports to the Regional Director Central Asia and receives personal mentoring from regional and Group leadership.

Core Responsibilities:

• Strategic & Financial Management: Turn corporate ambitions into concrete business plans and budgets. Own the financial results by closely monitoring margins, cash, working capital, project budgeting, and overall operational costs.
• Project Delivery & Leadership: Oversee the high-level operational deployment, execution, and commercial delivery of complex engineered lifts and heavy transport, crane and SPMT (Self-Propelled Modular Transporters) operations. Ensure every job is executed safely, on time, and within budget across all regional operations.
• Commercial & Client Relations: Manage regional accounts and build a strong pipeline with end clients, EPC contractors, and partners across wind, oil & gas, energy, and infrastructure. Lead commercial tendering, contract negotiations, and logistics service bids in collaboration with engineering, project, and legal teams.
• Operations & Fleet Optimization: Run a lean, cost-aware operation. Optimize the overarching scheduling, planning, and deployment of the specialized fleet and workforce based on regional project demands.
• Team Leadership & Development: Coach, manage, and develop a diverse leadership and support team—including project managers, logistics coordinators, engineers, planners, and site supervisors. Build a strong organizational culture that can scale with the business.
• Safety & Compliance: Lead visible, uncompromising safety by example. Ensure strict compliance with all corporate safety standards and regional legal regulations across all project sites.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act by building strong relationships with clients, authorities, and partners across the region, leading seamlessly from the yard to the boardroom.

Role Requirements:

• Experience: At least 10 years of leadership experience, including full P&L responsibility. A proven track record of winning and delivering large, complex projects. Experience in project logistics, heavy transport and heavy lifting.
• Skills & Style: Entrepreneurial, hands-on when necessary, and commercially sharp. Strong network in the Central Asian market.
• Languages: Fluent Russian and English; Kazakh or other regional languages are a plus.
• Mobility: Willingness to travel across Kazakhstan and abroad regionally.