Senior Water Engineering Manager

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. focuses on solving critical global problems across various sectors, including urban development, environmental resilience, and scientific discovery. The company aims to transform abstract ideas into realities that benefit the world.

Role Overview

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Water Engineering Manager (Water Transmission) to join the team in Neom, Tabuk, or Riyadh, within the All SA Regions. This full-time role involves providing technical leadership for the completion, commissioning, handover, and close-out of a major water transmission infrastructure project.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering activities for the completion and close-out of water transmission assets, including pipelines, pumping stations, reservoirs, valve chambers, and associated infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight during testing, commissioning, performance validation, and system acceptance activities.
• Ensure all water transmission systems meet design intent, operational requirements, regulatory standards, and project specifications.
• Manage the resolution of outstanding engineering issues, technical queries, NCRs, punch-list items, and defects through to final close-out.
• Coordinate engineering reviews of commissioning records, performance testing results, as-built documentation, and handover packages.
• Collaborate with contractors, consultants, and operations teams to support operational readiness and successful asset transfer.
• Monitor contractor engineering performance and provide guidance to ensure timely delivery of close-out milestones.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination across civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, GIS, and BIM teams.
• Support risk assessments, constructability reviews, lessons learned, and asset optimization initiatives.
• Ensure engineering documentation, technical approvals, asset registers, and turnover records are complete, accurate, and compliant with project requirements.

Project Focus

This role focuses on leading engineering oversight and technical assurance for a major water transmission project during its final delivery stages. The manager will work with project leadership, contractors, commissioning teams, operations representatives, and client stakeholders to ensure successful completion, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover of critical water transmission assets. Key areas include resolving outstanding technical issues, ensuring asset performance, managing engineering close-out activities, and supporting the transition from construction to operations.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in water engineering and project management.

Application Information

Salary for this position will be disclosed during the recruitment process.