Digital Infra Planning Director
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About the Role
Mace seeks a Digital Infra Planning Director to lead planning coordination for digital infrastructure packages on a major mixed-use development program in Saudi Arabia. The role involves managing planning baselines, demand forecasting, and coordination with multiple stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Manage day to day planning coordination for digital infrastructure packages, including planning baselines, phasing logic, sequencing, dependencies, critical interfaces, constructability inputs, co build opportunities, and alignment with district CMP/DMP submissions
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity planning inputs, including fiber demand, mobile coverage needs, data center/edge capacity, smart city use cases, resilience requirements, spare capacity, growth assumptions, and short /mid /long term planning horizons
- Coordinate planning interfaces with design, construction, utilities, authorities, operators, and consultants
- Review and validate digital infrastructure planning submissions, including fiber routes, tower siting plans, MMR/POP locations, duct bank layouts, right of way requirements, utility dependencies, access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy paths, and commissioning/handover planning inputs
- Track progress against approved planning baselines and report variances, including planning risks, schedule impacts, change requests, planning deviations, authority dependencies, delayed inputs, and mitigation actions for escalation to the Planning Director
- Support planning governance and review forums, including preparing planning dashboards, issue logs, risk registers, decision papers, steering committee inputs, technical review comments, and planning approval recommendations
- Ensure planning compliance with applicable standards and project requirements, including CST, SBC, MOMRAH right of way requirements, cybersecurity/resilience requirements, sustainability targets, operational readiness, O&M access, maintainability, and future scalability
- Support operational readiness and transition planning, ensuring that commissioning, integrated system testing, cutover, training, spares, O&M access, as built documentation, and phased handover requirements are embedded into the planning schedule
- Lead and mentor planning engineers/coordinators within the digital infrastructure planning team
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management
- Minimum 15+ years' experience in ICT, telecoms, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning
- Strong experience in digital infrastructure planning including phased implementation plans, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling
- Proven coordination experience across design, construction, utilities, authorities, consultants, operators, and contractors
- Strong planning control and reporting capabilities including baseline tracking, phasing adjustments, change requests, risk registers
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Project Overview
- This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia. This unique project consists of major mixed use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure.
You’ll be responsible for
- Manage day to day planning coordination for digital infrastructure packages, including planning baselines, phasing logic, sequencing, dependencies, critical interfaces, constructability inputs, co build opportunities, and alignment with district CMP/DMP submissions.
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity planning inputs, including fiber demand, mobile coverage needs, data center/edge capacity, smart city use cases, resilience requirements, spare capacity, growth assumptions, and short /mid /long term planning horizons.
- Coordinate planning interfaces with design, construction, utilities, authorities, operators, and consultants, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST, MOMRAH, SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, data center operators, and external EPC/design consultants.
- Review and validate digital infrastructure planning submissions, including fiber routes, tower siting plans, MMR/POP locations, duct bank layouts, right of way requirements, utility dependencies, access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy paths, and commissioning/handover planning inputs.
- Track progress against approved planning baselines and report variances, including planning risks, schedule impacts, change requests, planning deviations, authority dependencies, delayed inputs, and mitigation actions for escalation to the Planning Director.
- Support planning governance and review forums, including preparing planning dashboards, issue logs, risk registers, decision papers, steering committee inputs, technical review comments, and planning approval recommendations.
- Ensure planning compliance with applicable standards and project requirements, including CST, SBC, MOMRAH right of way requirements, cybersecurity/resilience requirements, sustainability targets, operational readiness, O&M access, maintainability, and future scalability.
- Support operational readiness and transition planning, ensuring that commissioning, integrated system testing, cutover, training, spares, O&M access, as built documentation, and phased handover requirements are embedded into the planning schedule.
- Lead and mentor planning engineers/coordinators within the digital infrastructure planning team, promote planning best practices, maintain planning trackers, ensure quality of outputs, and support coordination between planning, design, construction, and external consultants.
You’ll need to have
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management.
- Minimum 15+ years’ experience in ICT, telecoms, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning, preferably on city wide, giga project, mixed use, campus, or major infrastructure programs.
- Strong experience in digital infrastructure planning, including phased implementation plans, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, district connectivity, MMR/POP planning, duct corridors, and right of way coordination.
- Proven coordination experience across design, construction, utilities, authorities, consultants, operators, and contractors, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST/MOMRAH/SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, and data center operators.
- Strong planning control and reporting capabilities, including baseline tracking, phasing adjustments, change requests, risk registers.
Our values
- Safety first Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
- Client focus Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
- Integrity Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
Additional Information
- Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.
- We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
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