Infrastructure Assets Integration Senior Manager

About the Role

Jacobs (KSA) is seeking an Infrastructure Assets Integration Senior Manager to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time position supports a flagship giga project in Saudi Arabia, a central pillar of Vision 2030, located approximately 45 km southwest of Riyadh. This landmark development aims to diversify the economy and enhance quality of life through world-class attractions, residential communities, and natural landscapes across all Saudi Arabian regions.

Purpose of the Position

The Infrastructure Assets Integration Senior Manager will report to the Asset Lifecycle Planning & Integration Director. This role involves close collaboration with the Infrastructure portfolio lead, roads and car parks stakeholders, City Operations, and O&M teams. The primary objective is to shape practical lifecycle plans and renewal programmes for critical infrastructure assets, ensuring decisions are evidence-based and aligned with the city-wide Asset Management (AM) framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of lifecycle plans and programmes for roads, car parks, and other infrastructure assets.
• Apply city-wide asset management principles, renewal strategies, and intervention criteria to infrastructure planning.
• Develop maintenance, renewal, refurbishment, and replacement plans based on asset condition, criticality, and performance.
• Ensure lifecycle plans consider safety, resilience, maintainability, operability, user experience, and whole-life value.
• Incorporate operational risks, issues, opportunities, and lessons learned from O&M activities into asset planning.
• Monitor asset performance, defects, recurring failures, and maintenance challenges to support informed decision-making.
• Support risk-based prioritisation using condition, cost, performance, safety, criticality, and service impact data.
• Escalate lifecycle and renewal risks arising from funding gaps, deferred works, or ownership issues.
• Contribute to infrastructure renewal pipelines through analysis of condition, risk, maintenance, cost, and performance data.
• Maintain evidence-based renewal priorities and provide reporting on lifecycle risks, backlogs, budgets, and recommended actions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Infrastructure, Transport, Facilities Management, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications are desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure asset management, roads, car parks, transport infrastructure, maintenance planning, or city operations.
• Proven ability to support lifecycle planning, renewal programmes, maintenance strategies, risk management, and asset management plans.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Skilled in collaborating effectively with O&M teams, consultants, and stakeholders to translate operational insights into improvement initiatives.
• Comprehensive knowledge of infrastructure lifecycle planning, planned maintenance, renewals, asset performance monitoring, and ISO 55001 asset management principles.
• Strong capabilities in risk-based prioritisation, condition assessment, renewal planning, SAP EAMS reporting, lifecycle dashboards, and budget-support analysis.

Work Environment

This role operates within the dynamic environment of a major giga project in Saudi Arabia, contributing to long-term, sustainable growth and significant employment generation.