Interface Manager

About Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. focuses on solving critical global problems across various sectors, including urban development, environmental resilience, and scientific discovery. The company aims to transform abstract ideas into tangible realities that benefit the world.

Role Overview: Interface Manager

Jacobs is seeking an Interface Manager to join its team in Neom, Tabuk, or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading interface management activities for a major water infrastructure project during its completion, commissioning, handover, and close-out phases. The Interface Manager will coordinate the resolution of outstanding interface issues, ensure alignment among project parties, and drive successful completion, handover, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, management, and resolution of interfaces among contractors, consultants, operators, utility providers, and client stakeholders.
• Maintain and manage the project interface register, tracking all actions, dependencies, and risks to closure.
• Coordinate interface meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements to facilitate timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Drive the resolution of outstanding technical, construction, commissioning, and operational interface issues impacting project completion and handover.
• Ensure interface requirements are incorporated into commissioning plans, operational readiness activities, and handover strategies.
• Monitor contractor performance related to interface deliverables and completion milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, commercial, HSE, project controls, GIS/BIM, and commissioning teams to ensure alignment across project functions.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate interface-related risks that could impact project delivery, commissioning, or handover.
• Support the review and coordination of handover documentation, asset information, and operational acceptance requirements.
• Provide regular interface status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to project leadership and client stakeholders.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in interface management, project management, engineering management, or project delivery roles on major infrastructure, utilities, transportation, water, energy, or industrial projects.
• Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, handover processes, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Infrastructure Project Experience: Proven experience managing interfaces on large-scale infrastructure projects involving multiple contractors, stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• Digital Tools: Experience using project management systems, interface management tools, Autodesk Construction Cloud, document management systems, and digital collaboration platforms.
• Project & Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of project controls, risk management, change management, contract administration, stakeholder coordination, and project close-out processes.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, resolve complex issues, and drive decisions in fast-paced project environments.
• Behavioral Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship management, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a proactive and collaborative approach.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience working on major water, utilities, or infrastructure programs in the Middle East.
• Exposure to commissioning, operational readiness, and asset handover activities.

Work Location

This full-time position is available across all SA Regions, specifically in Neom, Tabuk, and Riyadh.