About this role
The Singapore Roads & Highways Sub-Sector Lead is responsible for the overall strategic, operational, financial, people, and business performance of the Roads & Highways portfolio in Singapore. The role provides senior leadership to deliver high-quality project outcomes, drive sustainable growth, strengthen client relationships, and build a high-performing team aligned with SJ’s national and regional strategies
Responsibilities
Develop and deliver Singapore Roads & Highways operating plans aligned with SJ’s strategic objectives, ensuring high-quality project delivery and operational excellence.
Accountable for sub-sector financial performance, budget management, utilisation, and robust oversight of operational, commercial, project, and OHS risks.
Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing workforce through effective recruitment, succession planning, mentoring, performance management, and skills development.
Optimise resourcing across Singapore and nationally in collaboration with regional and national leaders, ensuring clarity in structure, deployment, and reporting.
Build strong client relationships, drive client satisfaction, lead business development efforts, and secure new opportunities aligned with SJ’s strategic direction.
Lead and support national sector-based initiatives, governance requirements, cultural programmes, and change management activities in line with organisational policies.
Maintain clear, effective communication with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues, align priorities, and support successful delivery and growth.
Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
Professional Engineer (PE) registration in Singapore (or equivalent with eligibility for local registration) preferred.
Formal training in leadership, business management, or finance is an advantage.
Minimum 15–20 years of relevant experience in Roads & Highways, transportation infrastructure, or large-scale civil engineering projects.
Proven experience in a senior leadership or sub-sector management role, with accountability for operations, people, and financial performance.
Strong track record managing multi-disciplinary teams across design, delivery, and advisory services.
Demonstrated experience working within a matrix organisation across local, regional, and national structures.
Hands-on experience in budget ownership, utilisation management, and P&L accountability.
Proven involvement in business development, tendering, client engagement, and winning work within the Roads & Highways sector in Singapore
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Other facts
About Surbana Jurong Group
Surbana Jurong Group is a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firm, with over 70 years of track record in successful project delivery. Headquartered in Singapore, the group has a global talent pool of 16,000 across Surbana Jurong and our member companies AETOS, Atelier Ten, B+H, KTP, Prostruct, RBG, SAA, Sino-Sun and SMEC, based in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries. They include architects, designers, planners, engineers and other specialists driven by progressive thinking and creative ideas to help shape a better future.
Our technical experts deliver sustainable solutions that cover the entire project life cycle from planning and design, through to delivery and management, as well as decommissioning and closure. We provide a full suite of multidisciplinary consultancy services across a diverse range of sectors that includes aviation, healthcare, hospitality, transport, energy, water and environment.
Surbana Jurong has built more than a million homes in Singapore, created master plans for more than 30 countries and developed over 100 industrial parks globally. Our tag line “Building Cities, Shaping Lives” expresses how every project or undertaking is, for the Group, an opportunity to fulfil aspirations and enrich lives. By designing and delivering quality housing, work spaces, roads, rail, hydropower, dams, underground and coastal protections and other critical infrastructure needed by our clients, we are redefining cities and transforming them into sustainable and liveable spaces where communities and businesses, present and future, can thrive.
What you'll do
- The role involves developing and delivering operating plans for the Roads & Highways portfolio, ensuring high-quality project delivery and operational excellence. It also includes leading a high-performing team and building strong client relationships to drive business development efforts.
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