Environment Project Manager

About the Role

Egis is seeking a detail-oriented Environment Project Manager to join its site team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This contract position requires over 10 years of experience. The Project Manager will be accountable for the successful delivery of environmental services, ensuring quality, regulatory compliance, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.

Role Responsibilities

The Project Manager will provide leadership and oversight to Site Engineers responsible for day-to-day environmental management activities. Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing, approving, and formally signing off all bi-annual environmental compliance submissions to NCEC.
• Reviewing and endorsing technical justifications for environmental exceedances, including air quality, noise, and other compliance-related matters, prior to submission.
• Approving remediation plans, corrective action reports, and closeout documentation related to NCEC violations and regulatory observations.
• Acting as the senior point of contact with NCEC, managing regulatory engagement and escalation matters.
• Leading engagement with the Client and PMCM on environmental compliance, performance, risks, and strategic matters.
• Allocating responsibilities among Site Engineers, establishing priorities, and defining escalation thresholds and decision-making authorities.
• Conducting regular progress, performance, and coordination meetings with Site Engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and performance oversight.
• Ensuring adequate resource planning and continuity of service during absences, leave periods, or peak workload demands.
• Performing quality assurance reviews of environmental reports, inspection findings, audit reports, compliance submissions, and tracker updates.
• Ensuring the Environmental Permit Compliance Tracker and all regulatory commitment registers are accurate, complete, and maintained.
• Leading senior-level engagement with PMCM's environmental managers and driving resolution of persistent non-compliance issues.
• Establishing expectations and quality standards for overall deliverables.
• Managing contractual scope boundaries, timely deliverables, and invoicing.
• Monitoring workload, resource utilization, and deliverable frequencies against contractual assumptions.
• Maintaining and regularly updating the project risk register, with a focus on regulatory compliance, stakeholder management, monitoring performance, and contractor compliance risks.
• Providing regular reporting to the Project Director on project performance, compliance status, key risks, opportunities, and issues requiring management intervention.
• Ensuring robust document control, record management, and knowledge retention processes are maintained to support project continuity and audit readiness.
• Driving continual improvement initiatives, lessons learned, and best practices to enhance environmental performance and regulatory compliance across the project.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess the following:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in environmental project management or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure consistent implementation of project requirements, effective stakeholder engagement, and adherence to contractual obligations.
• Experience in managing regulatory engagement and escalation matters.
• Strong understanding of environmental compliance, performance, risks, and strategic matters.

Work Environment

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates on a contract basis. The role involves working as part of a site team, providing leadership and oversight to Site Engineers.