Interface Manager

About the Role

Hill International, Inc. is seeking an experienced Interface Manager for a full-time position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves managing interfaces across complex water projects, ensuring technical dependencies, scope boundaries, and outstanding issues are identified and resolved to prevent clashes, rework, delays, and cost impacts.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage interfaces between contractors, design disciplines, project packages, stakeholders, and existing infrastructure.
• Identify and resolve technical dependencies, scope boundaries, and outstanding issues.
• Prevent clashes, rework, delays, and cost impacts across complex water projects.
• Lead interface coordination meetings and workshops, driving actions to closure.
• Identify and resolve scope gaps, design clashes, technical risks, and interface issues before they impact cost or program.

Qualifications and Experience

• 20+ years of experience in engineering and/or project delivery, with significant experience in interface management on large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience in the water sector, including water transmission, desalination, treatment, pumping stations, storage, and distribution networks.
• Proven experience managing interfaces between multiple contractors, design consultants, disciplines, and stakeholders, including brownfield tie-ins and existing infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of design and construction processes across civil, mechanical, electrical, and process disciplines, including scope boundaries, battery limits, tie-in points, and technical dependencies.
• Good knowledge of FIDIC, EPC, and design-build contracts, including interface responsibilities, claims, variations, and change management.
• Experience with Aconex, Navisworks, Primavera P6, or similar interface, document management, and BIM tools.
• Experience working on major programs or giga-projects in the GCC/Middle East is highly desirable.

Required Skills

• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Effective communication and negotiation abilities.
• Proven problem-solving skills.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on large-scale water infrastructure projects within a dynamic project delivery environment.

Application Process

Candidates meeting the specified requirements are encouraged to apply for this role.