SAP Enterprise Asset Management Director

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is a key delivery partner for one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship giga projects, a central pillar of Vision 2030. This landmark development, located approximately 45 km southwest of Riyadh, is designed as the Kingdom’s future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture. It aims to diversify the economy and enhance quality of life through world-class attractions, residential communities, and natural landscapes, while generating significant employment and enabling long-term, sustainable growth.

Role Overview: SAP Enterprise Asset Management Director

The SAP Enterprise Asset Management Director leads the city’s enterprise asset management systems, asset information governance, and SAP EAMS implementation within City Asset Management. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, acts as the business owner for SAP EAMS, overseeing system design, data governance, process integration, reporting, and asset information standards. The role ensures asset data, operational requirements, and AM standards are aligned across the city by collaborating with City Operations, Asset Management teams, O&M, Digital, Finance, and Governance functions. The Director establishes a single, trusted source of asset information to enable effective maintenance, lifecycle planning, asset performance monitoring, renewals planning, and investment decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise asset management systems strategy, governance framework, operating model, and SAP EAMS roadmap across City Asset Management and City Operations.
• Act as the business owner for SAP EAMS, ensuring system design, configuration, workflows, and reporting align with asset management policies, operational requirements, and governance standards.
• Oversee SAP EAMS implementation, including business readiness, data migration, system integration, user acceptance testing, cut-over planning, and go-live support.
• Define and maintain enterprise asset data standards, asset registers, information governance, master data quality controls, and asset classification frameworks.
• Establish and manage asset management workflows, KPIs, dashboards, reporting standards, and performance metrics to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Ensure SAP EAMS supports maintenance planning, inspections, renewals, lifecycle management, compliance monitoring, service quality, and investment planning.
• Lead change management, communications, training, user adoption, and early-life support to ensure effective system utilization across stakeholders.
• Collaborate with City Operations, O&M teams, Asset Class BUs, Digital, Finance, Handover, and service providers to align asset information and operational requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement through data quality monitoring, system enhancements, automation, reporting optimization, and lessons learned from operations and audits.
• Manage consultants, implementation partners, suppliers, budgets, contracts, and performance to ensure sustainable AM system capabilities and value delivery.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in Enterprise Asset Management and SAP EAMS implementation.
• Demonstrated experience in system design, data governance, process integration, and reporting within an asset management context.
• Proven ability to lead change management and stakeholder engagement initiatives.

Work Environment

This role requires onsite attendance at a Jacobs workplace on a full-time basis, as dictated by the nature of the position.

About Jacobs

Jacobs is committed to solving critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, and operational advancement. The company fosters an inclusive culture that supports employee well-being and professional growth, offering opportunities for global collaboration and diverse perspectives.