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About the Role

HanmiGlobal MENA is seeking an experienced Interface Manager to join its program management and PMCM team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves leading comprehensive interface management for a large-scale, multi-work package land and infrastructure development program. The role is critical in ensuring the successful integration and delivery of the program on behalf of a major government entity.

Role Context and Responsibilities

The Interface Manager will provide program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and strategic oversight. This includes establishing and managing the program-wide Interface Management Framework. Key responsibilities involve ensuring all external dependencies, utility connections, authority approvals, and package-to-package interfaces are integrated and resolved among stakeholders, thereby supporting the overall development program's successful delivery. The role reports to the Program Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Program Interface Management Framework, including plans, procedures, registers, governance, reporting, and escalation protocols.
• Establish standardized processes for identifying, tracking, managing, and closing interfaces across all project packages, promoting best practices.
• Identify, monitor, and manage interfaces between development packages, infrastructure systems, utilities, stakeholders, government authorities, permitting agencies, and third-party organizations.
• Maintain the Program Interface Register, ensuring interface obligations, dependencies, risks, constraints, and mitigation actions are managed to resolution.
• Coordinate with utility providers and regulatory authorities for utility connections, diversions, permits, approvals, and statutory compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Planning & Scheduling, Design, Technical, Commercial, Construction, Project Controls, and Risk Management teams for seamless integration.
• Assess the impact of interface issues on scope, schedule, cost, quality, and program performance, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and escalating critical issues.
• Prepare interface management reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and recommendations for PMCM Management and the Client.
• Lead interface coordination meetings, stakeholder workshops, and cross-functional review sessions to facilitate issue resolution and maintain communication.
• Promote continuous improvement in interface management practices and support the implementation of PMIS, EDMS, and digital collaboration tools.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Urban Development, or a related discipline.
• Chartered Professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience in interface management, infrastructure delivery, utilities, transportation, land development, urban development, or major capital projects.
• Experience within PMCM, PMC, EPCM, client-side organizations, or major infrastructure delivery programs, preferably in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Core Competencies

• Interface & Program Integration Management
• Stakeholder, Utility & Authority Coordination
• Third-Party & Dependency Management
• Infrastructure & Land Development Coordination
• Permit & Approval Management
• Interface Risk & Issue Management
• Program Governance & Reporting
• PMIS, EDMS & Digital Collaboration Systems
• Executive Reporting & Performance Monitoring
• Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Communication, Negotiation, and Problem Solving.