Design Director, City Assets: Operability & Handover

JASARA PMC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Jasara Program Management Company (Jasara PMC) seeks a Design Director Estate Management to lead operability and maintainability reviews for city assets. The role ensures operational requirements are embedded in planning, design, and handover, coordinating with multiple stakeholder groups to deliver sustainable asset performance.

The role acts as estate management design authority, developing standards and ensuring alignment with long-term operations, maintenance, and service delivery across

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in design management, operational readiness, facilities planning, asset management, infrastructure delivery, estate management or related disciplines, including leadership experience.
• Experience influencing design outcomes across multidisciplinary projects and stakeholder groups.
• Experience coordinating development, operations, asset management and delivery stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational design reviews of city and district assets to assess operability, maintainability, functionality and long-term serviceability.
• Review asset designs throughout planning, concept, schematic, detailed design and pre-handover stages.
• Challenge design proposals to ensure assets can be safely, efficiently and sustainably operated and maintained.
• Promote whole-life thinking within design reviews to support long-term operational sustainability and value.
• Develop operational design standards, guidance documents and review criteria.
• Coordinate stakeholder reviews and ensure alignment between operational requirements and design solutions.

Skills

Operability reviews

Maintainability

Stakeholder coordination

Leadership

Design governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Facilities Management, Asset Management, Urban Planning, Building Sciences, Construction Management or related

Master's degree (desirable)

Job description

Jasara Program Management Company (Jasara PMC) seeks a Design Director Estate Management to lead operability and maintainability reviews for city assets. The role ensures operational requirements are embedded in planning, design, and handover, coordinating with multiple stakeholder groups to deliver sustainable asset performance.

The role acts as estate management design authority, developing standards and ensuring alignment with long-term operations, maintenance, and service delivery across