Interface Manager

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Neom; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs seeks an Interface Manager for NEOM's major water infrastructure program. You will lead internal and external interfaces, coordinating engineers, contractors, and client stakeholders to ensure timely completion, handover, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities include maintaining the interface register, leading interface meetings, and driving issue resolution across disciplines, while aligning commissioning plans with project close-out goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of interface management, project management, or related delivery experience.
• Experience on major infrastructure, utilities, water, or industrial projects.
• Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead identification, management, and resolution of project interfaces across contractors, consultants, and client stakeholders.
• Maintain the interface register with actions, dependencies, and risks from start to close.
• Coordinate interface meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements for timely decisions.
• Drive resolution of technical, construction, commissioning, and operational interface issues.
• Ensure interface requirements are in commissioning plans and handover strategies.
• Monitor contractor performance related to interface deliverables and milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, commercial, HSE, controls, GIS/BIM, and commissioning teams.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate interface-related risks affecting delivery and handover.
• Support handover documentation review, asset information, and acceptance requirements.
• Provide regular interface status updates and risk recommendations to leadership.

Skills

Interface management

Project management

Engineering management

Construction management

Stakeholder coordination

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Risk management

Multidisciplinary delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Construction/PM

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Document management systems

Digital collaboration platforms

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

At Jacobs, we push the limits of what is possible to make the world smarter and more connected. We are seeking an Interface Manager to join our team at NEOM and lead interface management activities during the completion, commissioning, handover, and close‑out of a major water infrastructure project.

About the Opportunity

Lead the management of internal and external project interfaces across a major water infrastructure programme entering its close‑out phase. Working closely with contractors, consultants, client stakeholders, commissioning teams, and operations representatives, you will be responsible for coordinating the resolution of outstanding interface issues, ensuring alignment between project parties, and driving successful completion, handover, and operational readiness activities. This role is critical in ensuring that technical, construction, commissioning, commercial, and operational interfaces are effectively managed through to final project close‑out.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, management, and resolution of interfaces between contractors, consultants, operators, utility providers, and client stakeholders.
• Maintain and manage the project interface register, ensuring all actions, dependencies, and risks are tracked through 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 affecting project completion and handover.
• Ensure interface requirements are incorporated into commissioning plans, operational readiness activities, and handover strategies.
• Monitor contractor performance relating 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.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Experience: Minimum 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: Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, handover processes, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Infrastructure: Proven experience managing interfaces on large‑scale infrastructure projects involving multiple contractors, stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• Digital: Experience using project management systems, interface management tools, Autodesk Construction Cloud, document management systems, and digital collaboration platforms.
• Project & Commercial: 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: Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship management, problem‑solving, and organizational skills with a proactive and collaborative approach.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Preferred: Experience working on major water, utilities, or infrastructure programmes in the Middle East with exposure to commissioning, operational readiness, and asset handover activities.

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Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed today and into tomorrow.

From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions – we’re committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally - and together, our diverse perspectives and unique backgrounds power our collective strength. We collaborate and share! By supporting one another, we all succeed.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities to do good too – from participating in our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place.

No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

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