Senior Project Manager - Public Realm

Overview

Role: Senior Project Manager - Public Realm
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Construction
Function: Project-Program Management
Experience: 15 years in multidisciplinary project delivery
Job Type: Full-time

Senior Project Manager - Public Realm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a construction hiring opportunity for an experienced project leader who can manage the full design and construction lifecycle of a high-visibility public realm improvement project under a Design and Build contract. The role focuses on end-to-end delivery across hard landscaping, soft landscaping, roads, utilities infrastructure, interface management, handover readiness, and construction coordination within a long environmentally sensitive corridor.

Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Salary: 42, (estimated; confirm final offer with employer)

• Manage the design and construction delivery of a public realm improvement project executed under a Design and Build contract.
• Take responsibility for end-to-end project delivery, ensuring milestones are achieved on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination across hard landscaping, soft landscaping, roads, utilities infrastructure, buildings, public realm assets, and corridor works.
• Oversee delivery activities within a 10km environmentally sensitive corridor while ensuring environmental, safety, technical, and stakeholder requirements are respected.
• Review design progress, construction sequencing, project schedules, delivery plans, and interface requirements to keep the project moving toward completion.
• Coordinate with consultants, contractors, designers, supervision teams, utility providers, local authorities, and internal project stakeholders.
• Manage project interfaces between functional requirements, construction constraints, utilities, public realm elements, roads, landscape works, and adjacent assets.
• Monitor milestone performance, construction progress, cost exposure, quality standards, safety requirements, and risk controls.
• Lead project meetings, progress reviews, technical workshops, coordination sessions, and stakeholder briefings.
• Identify project risks, delivery constraints, design issues, and interface conflicts, then develop practical mitigation and recovery actions.
• Support construction-phase decision-making by solving complex problems and guiding teams toward workable technical and delivery solutions.
• Manage asset delivery through construction, completion, handover, and start-up readiness.
• Ensure project execution aligns with industry practices, contractual requirements, approved procedures, regulations, and client expectations.
• Coordinate handover documentation, close‑out requirements, operational readiness inputs, and final acceptance activities.
• Motivate project teams, encourage accountability, and maintain delivery focus across multiple work streams.
• Support clear written and oral communication with senior stakeholders, contractors, client representatives, technical teams, and public-facing project participants.
• Maintain professional project reporting on progress, milestones, risks, interfaces, decisions, and delivery priorities.
• Respond flexibly to new challenges, changing project needs, and critical delivery issues while keeping the project focused on completion.

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of related experience in project management, construction delivery, infrastructure, public realm, or urban regeneration projects.
• Proven track record delivering multidisciplinary projects with high public visibility.
• Strong experience managing Design and Build contracts with responsibility for design coordination, construction delivery, handover, and project close‑out.
• Working knowledge of public realm, urban regeneration, road works, landscaping, buildings, and utilities infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing asset delivery through construction, handover, and start‑up operations.
• Skilled in interface management between complex functional, technical, infrastructure, and…