Defence Infrastructure Programme Manager

PAE Government Services Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Amentum UK and International is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to support a high-profile defence infrastructure programme in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The role covers planning, governance, and coordination across multiple workstreams in a demanding, multi-stakeholder environment.

You will manage schedules, RAID, and progress reporting, interfacing with client, technical teams, and contractors while ensuring delivery aligns with programme governance and procurement needs.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Business Management, or a related field.
• Professional project management certification (PRINCE2, APM, PMP, or similar) is desirable.
• 5+ years' experience delivering or supporting infrastructure, engineering, construction, or major capital projects.
• Strong understanding of project governance, reporting, controls, scheduling, and delivery coordination.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across client, contractor, and delivery teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); SharePoint experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day infrastructure project activities, priorities, outputs and interfaces across assigned workstreams.
• Support the planning and delivery of new-build, refurbishment and wider infrastructure activities within a complex programme environment.
• Maintain effective working relationships with client representatives, programme leadership, technical teams, commercial/procurement functions, consultants, contractors and other delivery stakeholders.
• Plan, coordinate and administer project meetings and formal governance forums, including agendas, meeting records, action logs and decision registers.
• Maintain project schedules, milestone trackers and delivery plans, and monitor progress against agreed commitments and dependencies.
• Prepare clear project reports, management information, briefings, presentations and governance submissions to support informed decision-making.
• Maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) records and support the identification, escalation and management of project risks and issues.
• Coordinate project actions, approvals and deliverables through established governance and assurance arrangements.
• Maintain robust document control, records management and project information arrangements.
• Support business case, procurement and commercial activities where required, including coordination of inputs, documentation and stakeholder actions.
• Provide delivery oversight and proactive follow-up to ensure actions are closed and project outputs are progressed in a timely manner.
• Promote professional, collaborative and disciplined project-management practices throughout the assignment.

Skills

Project management

Governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Scheduling

Risk management

Education

PM/Engineering degree

PRINCE2

PMP

APM

Tools

MS Office

SharePoint

Project Management software

Job description

Amentum UK and International is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to support a high-profile defence infrastructure programme in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The role covers planning, governance, and coordination across multiple workstreams in a demanding, multi-stakeholder environment.

You will manage schedules, RAID, and progress reporting, interfacing with client, technical teams, and contractors while ensuring delivery aligns with programme governance and procurement needs.