Technical Manager

About the Role

HanmiGlobal MENA is seeking a Technical Manager to join its program management and PMCM team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves providing program-wide technical leadership, engineering governance, and multidisciplinary integration for a mega multi-work package land and infrastructure development program. The program is delivered on behalf of a major government entity in Riyadh.

Role Purpose and Context

The Technical Manager will provide program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and strategic engineering oversight for all infrastructure and utility engineering submissions across the program. This includes ensuring that multidisciplinary technical reviews, infrastructure integration, and sustainability goals are fully integrated to support informed engineering decisions for PMCM Management and the Client. The role also involves leading the Program Technical Team to support the successful delivery of the overall development program.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the Program Technical Governance Framework, including engineering review procedures, technical standards, compliance requirements, and engineering assurance processes.
• Provide strategic leadership, technical direction, and performance oversight to the multidisciplinary Program Technical Team, ensuring consistent application of engineering standards and best practices across all project packages.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviews of engineering reports, design submissions, specifications, calculations, and technical studies prepared by Lead Developers and consultants.
• Ensure the successful integration of roads, transportation, utilities, drainage, irrigation, electrical, telecommunications, and associated infrastructure systems across the program.
• Identify and resolve multidisciplinary engineering conflicts, interface issues, and technical constraints to support coordinated project delivery.
• Ensure compliance with approved technical standards, specifications, utility requirements, statutory regulations, and operational objectives through robust engineering assurance processes.
• Lead the technical evaluation of design modifications, engineering deviations, Value Engineering proposals, and change requests, assessing their impact on safety, quality, functionality, cost, schedule, sustainability, and lifecycle performance.
• Support technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and engineering decision-making throughout the program lifecycle.
• Coordinate with Lead Developers, consultants, contractors, utility providers, government agencies, and regulatory authorities on technical matters, utility interfaces, approvals, and compliance requirements.
• Prepare technical reports, executive summaries, engineering assessments, and recommendations for PMCM Management and the Client.
• Lead technical workshops, multidisciplinary coordination meetings, engineering review sessions, and stakeholder engagements while promoting continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant technical management role.
• Demonstrated experience in program management and PMCM teams.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and manage complex infrastructure development programs.

Work Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Interested candidates are invited to apply for this full-time Technical Manager position.