Project Director

Project Overview

Project Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and governance for the KSU Relocation Project.
• Establish project strategy, execution plans, and delivery objectives aligned with client requirements.
• Lead large multidisciplinary project management, engineering, construction, commissioning, and commercial teams.
• Drive performance against schedule, cost, quality, and safety objectives.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary senior representative to the client and executive stakeholders.
• Build working relationships with client leadership, EPC contractor management, authorities, consultants, and other stakeholders.
• Lead executive meetings, progress reviews, and strategic decision-making forums.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and alignment with project and contractual objectives.

EPC Delivery Oversight

• Direct and oversee EPC contractor performance throughout all project phases.
• Integrate engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Monitor contractor compliance with specifications, contractual obligations, and performance targets.
• Resolve major technical, commercial, and operational challenges affecting delivery.

Process and MEP Systems

• Provide executive oversight of process-driven and MEP-intensive systems through design, construction, testing, and commissioning.
• Integrate cooling towers, sewage treatment facilities, thermal utility generation, electrical generation, and utility distribution networks.
• Coordinate a 1.7 km service tunnel network, warehouses, maintenance workshops, and an administration building.
• Support design optimization, operational readiness, and interfaces among process, MEP, civil, and campus systems.

Commercial and Financial Management

• Maintain accountability for project budget, forecasting, cost control, financial performance, and profitability.
• Lead assessment and resolution of claims, variations, change orders, and commercial negotiations.
• Ensure robust risk management processes are implemented and maintained.

Schedule and Governance

• Ensure development and maintenance of integrated master schedules.
• Drive recovery plans to mitigate schedule risks and monitor critical path activities.
• Monitor contractor productivity, procurement status, commissioning readiness, milestones, and contractual completion dates.
• Establish project governance, lead risk and issue resolution, and chair executive reviews and steering committee meetings.

Workplace

• The source identifies the capability as Office/Onsite and places the role in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Role Scope

• The role requires leadership of a major EPC infrastructure and utility development program.
• The role requires oversight of multidisciplinary teams and complex process, MEP, utility, civil, structural, and building systems.
• The role requires accountability for schedule, cost, quality, safety, risk, stakeholder, and contractual outcomes.