Senior Project Manager Infrastructure Specialist Saudi National

About Mace

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to enhance projects and redefine ambition. The company's values guide its consultancy approach and define the individuals sought to join its team.

The Project and Role Overview

This full-time role is for a Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure Specialist, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The position involves leading a landmark program focused on delivering premium buildings and supporting infrastructure for a prestigious private estate. This project includes a diverse portfolio of high-value developments, requiring high standards of design, planning, and execution. The Senior Project Manager will lead the planning, coordination, delivery assurance, and stakeholder integration of complex infrastructure projects, applying senior project management discipline and technical infrastructure insight to ensure outcomes are achieved safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end infrastructure project delivery, from strategy, planning, and mobilisation through design coordination, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and closeout.
• Establish robust project governance, delivery controls, baseline schedules, cost controls, risk management, issue resolution, and reporting rhythms aligned with programme requirements.
• Integrate multidisciplinary technical inputs across civil, utilities, transport, buildings, public realm, systems, interfaces, and enabling works to support coordinated delivery.
• Manage senior stakeholders, authorities, consultants, and contractors to drive decisions, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and maintain alignment on scope, quality, safety, commercial, and schedule objectives.
• Provide strategic advice to programme leadership on constructability, sequencing, procurement strategy, delivery risks, interface constraints, change impacts, and recovery options.
• Champion HSE, quality, sustainability, compliance, and assurance expectations across the project lifecycle.
• Approve project execution plans, mobilisation plans, delivery strategies, interface plans, and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Develop integrated schedules, lookahead plans, progress reports, dashboards, risk and issue registers, decision logs, and escalation papers.
• Prepare package delivery plans, procurement and tender inputs, technical evaluations, change impact assessments, and recovery/action plans.
• Compile governance meeting packs, executive reporting, assurance responses, lessons learned, and closeout documentation.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Saudi National.
• Over 10 years of experience in project management, specifically within infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects from inception to completion.
• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.

Company Values

Mace operates on core values that guide its operations and team interactions:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: Fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, with an emphasis on well-being.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: Taking ownership of deliverables and strategic outcomes, building long-term client relationships.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: Influencing positive industry outcomes while adhering to compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: Promoting a continuous improvement culture to inspire team development.

Application Information

Mace is an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Applicants who may not meet all criteria are still encouraged to apply, as they may be suitable for this or other roles within the organisation.