Director Engineering and Assurance

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._ - 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._ **Your Impact**: **Role**: **Title: **Director Engineering and Assurance**: **Global Career Structure**: Senior Director, Program Management **LOB**: People & Places Solutions **Primary role**: Yes **Region**: Middle East - Saudi Arabia **Location Riyadh **Jacobs Purpose**: **To create a more connected, sustainable world.**: **Values**: We do things right. We challenge the accepted. We aim higher. We live inclusion. **Project Overview**: ***: **Role Summary**: *** **Essential Duties & Responsibilities** The Client is embarking upon a significant capital program to create the capital of entertainment, sports, and the arts in Riyadh. The program will be an integrated destination offering immersive experiences and memorable moments of delight. The program will involve parallel development and execution of a broad range of assets encompassing leisure, sports, cultural, retail, hospitality, religious, residential, transport and infrastructure. As a member of the Senior Management team, the Director Engineering and Assurance role is considered a key function for providing accountability to develop the engineering and assurance strategies and execution plans required for the project. This role will be given the authority to execute approved strategies and plans for the project and prepare and drive the team to meet evolving project’s needs. The role will also provide and seek regular feedback and input from the Senior Management team and Client stakeholders. The following provides a summary of essential duties and responsibilities applicable to the role: - Progressing asset and infrastructure designs from the approved concept designs to a point where they can be put to tender for construction - Manage the design consultants output designs to within the approved cost plan budget. - Manage the production of quality documentation which does not present claims risk. - Facilitate and participate in value engineering, constructability reviews and sustainability management - Monitor compliance with all client design and engineering requirements - Develop standard template for design briefs, architectural competition briefs and LDC scope of work to support procurement of architects, designers, and engineers. - Lead the procurement and management of specialized consultants to support the Program-level design and engineering requirements - Develop, maintain, and implement a design management plan for the Program, Precincts and Projects covering all phases of design from pre-concept to shop drawings. - Develop and manage an integrated design review and approval process (stage gate process) across the entire Program. - Implement and oversee design reviews in an integrated collaborative platform / environment for all asset designs. - Responsible for design performance monitoring, design change management reporting and resolution, design management, coordination, scheduling and review, value engineering, constructability reviews, sustainability management, document and version control, and statutory approvals throughout the design development stages. - Assist in the pre-qualification, qualification, review, and recommendation of design consultants. - Work with the Client's Development Team(s) to develop design briefs, architectural competition briefs and LDC scope of work to support procurement of architects, designers and engineers. - Manage and support the Client's design and engineering consultants. Responsible for managing the Client appointed designers, overseeing design development, design change reporting and resolution, design coordination, scheduling and review, value management / engineering, constructability reviews, sustainability management, document, and version control, and coordinating statutory approvals throughout the design development stages. - Oversee the design development process, not limited to drawings (architectural, structural, MEP and landscape), and specifications, site analysis, concept designs, plans, final designs and construction details to confirm compliance with approved themes, dimensions and budget. - Implement a design to budget approach - Confirm compliance with all the Client's design and engineering requirements such as common specification, theming, architectural guidelines, land use gui