Project Manager
About this role
About SJ
Surbana Jurong (SJ) is a leading global urban, infrastructure, and managed services consulting firm, driven by a vision to build cities and shape lives. Headquartered in Singapore, SJ is a diverse collective of experts delivering sustainable and high-impact solutions across the built environment.
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Project Manager to join our Project Management Consultancy team. This is a client-facing role supporting the Project Director in the successful delivery of major infrastructure project in Riyadh-KSA.
The successful candidate will play a key role in project planning, stakeholder management, progress monitoring, reporting, and executive-level presentations. The role requires an individual who can confidently engage with clients, consultants, contractors, and senior management while ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Project Director in the day-to-day management and delivery of major infrastructure projects.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including Civil, MEP, design consultants, contractors, and specialist advisors.
- Monitor project scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risks, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Assist in developing, reviewing, and maintaining master programmes and project execution plans.
- Lead progress review meetings and coordinate actions to resolve project issues and mitigate delays.
- Prepare high-quality client presentations, executive reports, dashboards, KPIs, and project status updates.
- Interface with clients, contractors, consultants, and regulatory authorities, maintaining strong professional relationships.
- Support contract administration, change management, risk management, and claims avoidance.
- Monitor project budgets, expenditure, forecasting, and cost control activities.
- Ensure compliance with quality, HSE, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
- Support project governance, document management, approvals, and reporting processes.
- Assist in project handover, close-out activities, and lessons learned workshops.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Civil or Mechanical).
- Minimum 10–15 years of professional experience in infrastructure project delivery.
- Minimum 7 years of experience on major infrastructure projects within the Middle East.
- Experience working with a construction consultancy or project management consultancy will be highly regarded.
- Strong understanding of project management principles, construction methodologies, planning, scheduling, and project controls.
- Proven experience in client-facing roles with excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary project teams.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of contract administration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Preferred Skills
- Outstanding presentation and communication skills with the ability to prepare executive-level PowerPoint presentations.
- Strong reporting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience preparing progress reports, KPIs, risk registers, and executive dashboards.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel), Microsoft Project, and project management systems.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
How to Apply
Please submit your application through our official careers portal. Click on the “Apply Now” button below and follow the instructions.
Note: Recruitment for this role is being managed internally. Unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be considered.
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!
Company at a glance
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.
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