Interface Manager

HanmiGlobal is seeking a highly qualified interface manager to join our program management and PMCM team in Saudi Arabia. In this role, you will lead comprehensive interface management for a major, multi-work-package land and infrastructure development program in Riyadh, delivered on behalf of a government entity.

You will provide program-level leadership, governance, coordination, and strategic oversight to establish and manage the program-wide interface management framework. You will ensure that external dependencies, utility connections, authority approvals, and package-to-package interfaces are integrated and resolved among stakeholders, supporting the successful delivery of the overall development program.

Reports to: Program director

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the program interface management framework, including interface management plans, procedures, registers, governance processes, reporting requirements, and escalation protocols.
• Establish standardized processes for identifying, tracking, managing, and closing interfaces across all project packages while promoting best practices in interface management.
• Identify, monitor, and manage interfaces between development packages, infrastructure systems, utilities, stakeholders, government authorities, permitting agencies, and third-party organizations.
• Maintain the program interface register and ensure interface obligations, dependencies, risks, constraints, and mitigation actions are managed through to resolution.
• Coordinate with utility providers and regulatory authorities to facilitate utility connections, diversions, permits, approvals, and statutory compliance.
• Coordinate closely with planning and scheduling, design, technical, commercial, construction, project controls, and risk management teams to ensure seamless integration across program functions.
• Assess the impact of interface issues on scope, schedule, cost, quality, and overall program performance. Proactively identify and mitigate interface-related risks, escalating critical issues when required.
• Prepare interface management reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and recommendations for PMCM management and the client.
• Lead interface coordination meetings, stakeholder workshops, and cross-functional review sessions to facilitate timely issue resolution and effective communication among project participants.
• Promote continuous improvement in interface management practices and support the implementation of PMIS, EDMS, and digital collaboration tools.

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, urban development, or a related discipline.
• Chartered professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• At least 15 years of professional experience in interface management, infrastructure delivery, utilities, transportation, land development, urban development, or major capital projects.
• Experience in PMCM, PMC, EPCM, client-side organizations, or major infrastructure delivery programs, preferably in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.
• Saudi nationals are preferred.

Core competencies

• Interface and program integration management
• Stakeholder, utility, and authority coordination
• Third-party and dependency management
• Infrastructure and land development coordination
• Permit and approval management
• Interface risk and issue management
• Program governance and reporting
• PMIS, EDMS, and digital collaboration systems
• Executive reporting and performance monitoring
• Leadership, strategic thinking, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving