Governance & Assurance Director

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.

Role Overview: Governance & Assurance Director

The Governance & Assurance Director, also referred to as the Asset Management Governance & Assurance Lead, is responsible for implementing and maintaining ISO 55001-aligned asset management governance, assurance, stage gate oversight, and platform management across City Asset Management. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires over 10 years of experience. The role ensures that asset management requirements are embedded into operational strategies, readiness plans, budgets, design reviews, and handover activities before key approvals and stage gate decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and implement ISO 55001-aligned asset management governance, assurance, and stage gate processes across City Asset Management.
• Ensure asset management requirements, risks, operational readiness, and lifecycle considerations are incorporated into key project and handover decisions.
• Oversee stage gate assurance activities, providing evidence-based go, conditional go, or no-go recommendations.
• Coordinate and facilitate design reviews, ensuring operability, maintainability, cost, and performance requirements are addressed.
• Manage the capture, resolution, tracking, and escalation of review comments, risks, issues, and governance actions.
• Maintain accurate assurance records, decision logs, dashboards, and reporting to support governance and leadership oversight.
• Lead COP/DOP implementation planning, stakeholder engagement, platform management, and handover documentation control.
• Collaborate with City Operations, delivery teams, O&M teams, technical authorities, and consultants to ensure compliance and readiness.
• Apply risk-based decision-making to balance asset performance, value, cost, service outcomes, safety, and whole-life requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of asset management governance, assurance processes, document control, and lifecycle planning through audits, lessons learned, and performance reviews.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 15 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining ISO 55001-aligned asset management governance.
• Proven ability to oversee governance activities across projects and portfolios.
• Experience in coordinating stakeholder inputs and managing review outcomes.

Work Environment and Location

This full-time position is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, supporting a significant giga project that contributes to Vision 2030. The role involves overseeing governance activities across various projects and portfolios within City Asset Management, requiring collaboration with diverse internal and external stakeholders.

Application Information

Jacobs is committed to solving critical problems for thriving cities and resilient environments. We invite qualified candidates to apply for this role to contribute to a transformative project in Saudi Arabia.