Director - Infrastructure

Role Overview

Key Duties

• Lead infrastructure design strategy and delivery from concept through construction support.
• Direct design consultants, specialist subconsultants, and internal teams against programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across roads, grading, wet and dry utilities, infrastructure corridors, and authority interfaces.
• Integrate architecture, landscape, transport, utilities, structures, and MEP design disciplines.
• Oversee design governance, reviews, gateway submissions, and technical approvals.
• Lead value engineering, buildability reviews, cost validation, risk management, and change management.
• Establish design protocols, reporting structures, deliverable trackers, and consultant performance standards.
• Support procurement, including scope definition, RFP preparation, technical bid reviews, and consultant appointments.
• Lead client-facing infrastructure design discussions and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Mentor design managers and discipline leads and support continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Extensive infrastructure design leadership experience on major mixed-use, hospitality, destination, or luxury developments.
• Strong multidisciplinary design management and complex interface coordination experience.
• Ability to lead consultant teams and manage client, authority, and executive-level stakeholders.
• Knowledge of design stages, technical assurance, authority approvals, and construction support.
• Experience in value engineering, programme recovery, and design risk management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including high-level technical report writing.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Experience within a BIM-led design environment is preferred.
• Middle East project experience, ideally in Saudi Arabia, is strongly preferred.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead infrastructure design on a flagship luxury development in Riyadh.
• Senior leadership role with significant influence on project outcomes and long-term legacy.
• Attractive salary and benefits package.
• Collaborative environment with exposure to leading consultants and stakeholders.