Interface Manager

About Jacobs

Jacobs is a company focused 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.

The Role of Interface Manager

Jacobs is seeking an Interface Manager to join its team in Neom, Al Jawf. This full-time role involves leading interface management activities for a major water infrastructure project during its completion, commissioning, handover, and close-out phases. The position is critical for ensuring effective management of technical, construction, commissioning, commercial, and operational interfaces through to final project close-out.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, management, and resolution of interfaces among contractors, consultants, operators, utility providers, and client stakeholders.
• Maintain and manage the project interface register, tracking all actions, dependencies, and risks to closure.
• Coordinate interface meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements to facilitate timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Drive the resolution of outstanding technical, construction, commissioning, and operational interface issues affecting project completion and handover.
• Ensure interface requirements are incorporated into commissioning plans, operational readiness activities, and handover strategies.
• Monitor contractor performance related to interface deliverables and completion milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, commercial, HSE, project controls, GIS/BIM, and commissioning teams to ensure alignment across project functions.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate interface-related risks that could impact project delivery, commissioning, or handover.
• Support the review and coordination of handover documentation, asset information, and operational acceptance requirements.
• Provide regular interface status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to project leadership and client stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in interface management, project management, engineering management, or project delivery roles on major infrastructure, utilities, transportation, water, energy, or industrial projects.
• Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, handover processes, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Infrastructure Projects: Proven experience managing interfaces on large-scale infrastructure projects involving multiple contractors, stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• Digital Tools: Experience using project management systems, interface management tools, Autodesk Construction Cloud, document management systems, and digital collaboration platforms.
• Project & Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of project controls, risk management, change management, contract administration, stakeholder coordination, and project close-out processes.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, resolve complex issues, and drive decisions in fast-paced project environments.
• Behavioral Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship management, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a proactive and collaborative approach.

Preferred Experience

• Working on major water, utilities, or infrastructure programs in the Middle East with exposure to commissioning, operational readiness, and asset handover activities.