Senior Interface Manager (Utilities)

About the Role

Mace is seeking a Senior Interface Manager (Utilities) to join their team in Tabuk, with work locations including Umluj. This full-time role involves leading the management of technical, construction, commissioning, operational, and stakeholder interfaces for major utility production assets and infrastructure plants.

Project Context

The Senior Interface Manager will ensure effective integration across utility plant packages, network infrastructure contractors, utility operators, authorities, commissioning teams, and programme stakeholders. The focus will be on the successful delivery and integration of major infrastructure facilities, including power, district cooling, desalination, sewage treatment, potable water production, ICT infrastructure, and centralized utility systems. This position is critical for managing plant-to-network and plant-to-plant interfaces, utility operator requirements, and operational readiness activities across multiple contractors and workstreams.

Key Accountabilities

• Establish and manage the package interface management framework across all utility plant assets.
• Lead interface coordination among power plants, substations, district cooling plants, desalination facilities, sewage treatment facilities, ICT infrastructure, and associated utility networks.
• Manage interfaces between plant contractors, utility network contractors, utility providers, authorities, operators, and programme stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain interface registers, responsibility matrices, and interface agreements.
• Coordinate technical interfaces across civil, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, controls, ICT, and operational systems.
• Manage plant-to-network integration requirements to support testing, commissioning, energisation, and operational handover.
• Facilitate interface workshops and multidisciplinary coordination meetings.
• Identify interface risks and drive timely mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Support operational readiness planning and integration with future operating entities.
• Monitor interface performance and provide regular reporting to programme leadership.

Core Responsibilities

• Promote Mace's Safety First value, exhibiting visible safety behaviours, sharing lessons learned, and utilising safety moments and Mace's HSW framework to support the safety and wellbeing of all staff.
• Possess technical expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to the project portfolio.
• Promote a diverse and inclusive working environment and understand the importance of team wellbeing.
• Ensure robust quality systems are in place and managed in line with service excellence.
• Manage delivery from project inception/brief through design development, planning, contractor procurement, and construction phase, in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed project milestones.
• Manage tasks and associated deliverables in support of senior leaders and the wider project and client teams to ensure timely and accurate project delivery.
• Manage project budgets and highlight any risks, challenges, and mitigations.
• Support the long-term development of the function or Business Unit (BU), contributing to a sustainable business future.
• Commit to making a positive impact for people, clients, and the planet, and hold others accountable for upholding Mace values.
• Manage design and wider consultant teams collaboratively to ensure effective completion of responsibilities.
• Lead and manage the project team and relevant stakeholders to achieve strategic project key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Actively network, innovate, and seek understanding of best practice, utilising the full depth of knowledge of Mace Group, the Centres of Excellence, Mace Way Control Centre, and Knowledge Hub.

Application Information

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not fulfill all criteria, as they may still be suitable for this role or another within the organisation. Discussions regarding part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options are also open if suitable for the role.