SPECIFICATION MANAGER
INFRASTRUCTURE & UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION (UGC)

Location: Romania | National Coverage

We are recruiting a highly skilled and technically credible Specification Manager to strengthen the market positioning of advanced construction materials used in infrastructure and underground construction projects across Romania.

The role is central to influencing specifications, supporting engineering decisions, and ensuring that high-performance solutions for repair, waterproofing, injection, mortars, shotcrete, and UGC systems are integrated from the earliest phases of major projects.

This position requires a rare combination of deep technical knowledge, strong stakeholder influence, and the ability to work across the full lifecycle of complex infrastructure works — from concept and design to tendering and execution.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Specification Manager will play a critical role in promoting and specifying technical solutions for large-scale infrastructure and underground construction projects such as bridges, tunnels, metros, highways, hydrotechnical structures, and industrial foundations.

You will collaborate closely with engineering design houses, consultants, general contractors, and specialists in structural repair, waterproofing, and geotechnical works. Your work will directly impact the adoption of high-performance solutions in feasibility studies (SF), technical design (PT), execution details (DDE), tender documentation, and site instructions.

This role requires strong technical authority, an ability to build credibility with senior engineers, and the discipline to manage a wide project pipeline across Romania.
Regular travel to design offices, project owners, and construction sites is required.

KEY CHALLENGES & REQUIREMENTS

Technical Influence in Complex Infrastructure Projects

The role requires a deep understanding of infrastructure and underground construction systems — including mortars, repair materials, waterproofing, injection, grouting, anchoring, and shotcrete — and the ability to translate this expertise into compelling technical specifications for major projects (bridges, tunnels, metros, hydrotechnical structures, foundations).
Requirement: Solid engineering background (civil, structural, geotechnical, or materials science) with proven experience in infrastructure or UGC.

Norms, Standards & Compliance Mastery

You must operate confidently within relevant Romanian and European standards, ensuring solutions comply fully with project specifications, verification processes, and execution constraints.
Requirement: Strong knowledge of SF/PT/DDE processes, technical norms, and conformity documentation.

Stakeholder Ecosystem Leadership

Success requires building credibility with engineering design houses, verifiers, consultants, general contractors, and project owners — influencing decisions through authority, clarity, and technical value.
Requirement: Demonstrated ability to work with multi-level stakeholders in technical roles, ideally with exposure to tendering, design reviews, or technical approvals.

Project Pipeline Development & Prioritisation

The role involves identifying and monitoring national infrastructure projects, engaging early in design, and ensuring continuity of specified solutions through tender and execution phases.
Requirement: Strong organisational discipline, the ability to manage a wide project pipeline, and autonomous decision-making.

Technical Promotion & Solution Optimization

You will prepare and defend technical proposals, alternative solutions, method statements, and BoQ adjustments — often in competitive environments involving established specifications.
Requirement: Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the capacity to articulate technical and cost-performance arguments.

On-Site Credibility & Execution Awareness

Direct engagement with contractors is essential to validate feasibility, support application methods, and troubleshoot deviations from the designed solution.
Requirement: Practical understanding of execution constraints, site behaviour of materials, and real-world implementation. 

Communication & Training Excellence

You must deliver high-quality technical presentations and training sessions to engineering offices, contractors, and internal teams.
Requirement: Strong communication skills, confidence in front of technical audiences, and the ability to adapt messaging depending on stakeholder type.

CANDIDATE PROFILE 

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Materials Engineering, Geotechnics, or related technical field.
• Additional qualifications in underground construction or structural rehabilitation are an advantage.

Professional Experience

• 5–10+ years of technical experience in:
• Construction materials (mortars, concrete, waterproofing, repair systems)
• • Infrastructure or underground construction projects
  • Technical sales, project specification, or engineering consultancy
• Experience working with design institutes, engineering companies, and public sector contracting authorities.
• Prior experience with similar companies is a strong advantage.

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of:
  • Standards & norms for infrastructure and underground construction
  • Concrete technology & repair systems
  • Waterproofing systems
  • UGC application technologies
• Ability to prepare technical proposals, design alternatives, and optimized solutions.

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder influence and relationship building.
• High credibility with engineers, contractors, designers, and technical decision-makers.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Analytical thinking, problem-solving orientation, and autonomy.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

ATTRACTIVE ASPECTS 

This role offers the opportunity to be at the heart of Romania’s major infrastructure developments, influencing technical decisions that shape tunnels, bridges, transport networks, and underground structures.

You will work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to engineering excellence, and build strong professional credibility across the industry.

It is an ideal role for an engineer who wants to combine deep technical impact, project strategy, and national-level visibility.

APPLICATION PROCESS 

If this opportunity aligns with your technical expertise and professional ambitions, please submit your CV.
Qualified candidates will participate in a structured evaluation process focused on technical competence, project influence, and stakeholder collaboration.

If you know someone who may fit this challenge, feel free to share this opportunity.

We welcome resumes or / and recommendations in English Language until latest FRIDAY 23.01.2026.

If, this opportunity does not interest you, but you would like to recommend a member of your professional network who might have the right profile and a potential interest in pursuing it, please don’t hesitate to forward them this ad or directly send us their coordinates.

Please consider that only the suitable candidates will be contacted for interview, but we appreciate everyone’s interest in our projects and would like to keep in touch for future projects.

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