About this role
About SJ:
Surbana Jurong Group is a diverse collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create a smart and sustainable 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 a full suite of multidisciplinary consultancy services across a diverse range of sectors including transportation, water, aviation, healthcare, hospitality and renewables.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Program Director to lead complex, high-impact programs within a complex and regulated industry. This senior leadership role is responsible for end-to-end program delivery, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and financial performance across large, multi-disciplinary initiatives.
The ideal candidate brings a depth of expertise within the aviation/aerospace industry, strong executive presence, and a proven ability to lead large programs in highly regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee planning, scheduling, and interface activities.
- Track contractor performance and manage progress reporting.
- Lead and deliver complex programs from initiation through completion, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
- Define program scope, roadmap, governance, and success metrics
- Serve as the senior point of contact for customers, OEMs, suppliers, regulators, and internal executives
- Direct cross-functional Engineering teams and own program budgets, financial forecasts, and commercial performance
- Ensure compliance, regulations and standards are adhered to
- Identify and manage technical, operational, regulatory, and financial risks
- Provide executive-level reporting, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership
- Mentor and develop program managers and senior team members
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum 20+ years in Aviation, Aerospace, or a closely related regulated industry
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aerospace or related field; Master’s preferred.
- Proven track record managing large, complex, multi-year programs
- Hands-on experience working with OEMs, airlines, MROs, or aviation authorities preferred
- Advanced knowledge of program management methodologies (PMI, PRINCE2, Agile/Hybrid)
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program management certification strongly preferred
- Excellent financial, commercial, and contract management skills
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities
Why Join Us?
At Surbana Jurong, we bring together talent, teamwork, innovation, and a dynamic workplace to solve complex challenges creatively and collaboratively. Be part of a global multidisciplinary consultancy where your ideas and expertise are valued and rewarded.
All recruitment activities must go through our recruitment function. At this time, this role does not require agency support.
Please do not forward résumés directly to SJ Group employees or managers. We do not accept unsolicited résumés and are not responsible for any fees associated with them.
Only successful candidates will be contacted.
At Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. Join us in making a positive impact on the world!
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 Programme Director will oversee planning, scheduling, and delivery of complex programs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. They will also manage stakeholder engagement and ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
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