Stage Gate Assurance & Monitoring Senior Manager City Asset Management

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is a key delivery partner for one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship giga-projects, a central pillar of Vision 2030. This landmark development, located approximately 45 km southwest of Riyadh, is designed as the Kingdom’s future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture. It aims to diversify the economy and enhance quality of life through world-class attractions, residential communities, and natural landscapes, while generating significant employment and enabling long-term, sustainable growth across all SA Regions.

The Role of Stage Gate Assurance & Monitoring Senior Manager

The Stage Gate Assurance & Monitoring Senior Manager supports the Asset Management Governance & Assurance Director. This full-time role involves coordinating asset management assurance across stage gate reviews, design reviews, and handover readiness activities. The Senior Manager ensures that Asset Management (AM) requirements are consistently reviewed, evidenced, tracked, and integrated into project delivery, operational readiness, handover, and lifecycle planning, in alignment with the ISO 55001 asset management framework. A minimum of 10 years of experience is required for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate AM assurance activities across Stage Gate reviews, assessing requirements, trigger points, and evidence at appropriate project stages.
• Monitor AM requirements related to operational readiness, operator strategies, budgets, delivery plans, asset requirements, and handover preparedness.
• Prepare assurance reports detailing review status, risks, conditions, evidence gaps, and recommended decision outcomes.
• Support evidence-based go, conditional go, or no-go recommendations and ensure accurate recording of decisions.
• Facilitate and coordinate design reviews involving City AM, City Operations, O&M teams, delivery teams, and technical stakeholders.
• Ensure design reviews address operability, maintainability, lifecycle impacts, Opex considerations, service levels, and handover requirements.
• Track, monitor, and resolve review comments, actions, risks, and outstanding issues, escalating when necessary.
• Consolidate review findings, risks, conditions, and unresolved matters to support Stage Gate decision-making.
• Maintain AM platform records, action tracking, and assurance documentation to support governance and compliance requirements.
• Provide reporting and monitoring to ensure Stage Gate outcomes are implemented and reflected in project, readiness, handover, and lifecycle plans.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Over 14 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Knowledge of Stage Gate processes, governance reporting, evidence management, action tracking, risk escalation, and decision support.
• Experience coordinating with City Operations, O&M teams, delivery teams, consultants, and asset management stakeholders.
• Understanding of ISO 55001 asset management principles, including lifecycle management, value optimization, risk management, and continual improvement.
• Proficiency in AM platforms, dashboards, exception reporting, operational readiness, handover requirements, maintainability, and lifecycle planning.

Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Jacobs is committed to solving the world’s most critical problems. We invite qualified candidates to apply for this role to contribute to transformative projects.