Engineering Manager (Operation Manager) EXPO

Project Overview

Workplace

• The role is based in Riyadh at a full-time office and project work location.
• International single relocation is authorized.

Job Summary

Major Responsibilities

• Lead operational integration and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain operational requirements, assumptions, constraints, and interface registers.
• Incorporate operational requirements into planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover.
• Coordinate interfaces across mobility, transport, logistics, security, venues, facilities management, maintenance, workforce, customer experience, and event operations.
• Review design submissions and technical deliverables for operational alignment.
• Lead readiness workshops, operational reviews, and stakeholder coordination meetings.
• Coordinate Concepts of Operations, Operational Plans, Readiness Plans, Transition Plans, and Handover Strategies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and readiness gaps and develop mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate testing, commissioning, trial operations, rehearsals, and readiness activities.
• Support mobility operations covering public transport, buses, fleets, depots, traffic management, pedestrian movement, crowd management, and transport control.
• Coordinate with security, emergency management, logistics, venue operations, and government agencies.
• Provide readiness reporting and support transition into operational deployment and handover.

Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree or international equivalent in engineering, operations management, transportation, event management, project management, or a related discipline is required.
• At least 15 years of experience in major-program delivery, operations planning, operational readiness, venue operations, transportation operations, or related disciplines is required.
• Experience delivering major events or comparable mega-projects is required.
• Experience developing and coordinating operational requirements across multidisciplinary projects is required.
• Experience managing interfaces among operators, designers, contractors, authorities, and project stakeholders is required.
• Experience supporting testing, commissioning, trial operations, readiness, transition, and handover is required.
• Strong knowledge of event operations, transport operations, crowd management, logistics, security coordination, and operational governance is required.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills are required.
• The role requires effectiveness in complex multi-organizational environments.

Benefits

• Bechtel states that it offers benefits intended to support employee development, culture, wellbeing, and sustainable career growth.