Job description

Municipal, recycling, organics, construction, hazardous, and event waste streams all fall under one portfolio in this Director, Waste Management role, based at a giga project roughly 45 kilometers southwest of Riyadh built around Vision 2030. Jacobs delivers this development as a key partner, positioning it as the Kingdom's future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture. You provide strategic leadership for the city's waste management asset portfolio, ensuring infrastructure, systems, services, and commercial arrangements stay planned, governed, and optimized across their lifecycle. Long-term strategies, lifecycle investment plans, performance frameworks, and regulatory assurance all sit within your remit, supporting waste services that stay safe, sustainable, and cost effective. Circular economy principles, resource recovery, and digital enablement run through the role too, alongside alignment with the city's asset management framework and Saudi regulations. You lead the strategic direction, governance, operating model, policies, and performance framework for the citywide waste management portfolio, developing service models, demand forecasts, and capacity plans tied to city growth. Sustainability work extends to circular economy initiatives, recycling, resource recovery, waste diversion, and carbon reduction, all in line with ESG objectives. Asset information, digital systems, smart waste technologies, and performance dashboards get established to support informed decision-making across the portfolio. Compliance sits close to the center of the role as well, covering environmental requirements, permits, licensing obligations, and regulatory reporting through engagement with key authorities. Commercial and provider governance strategies round things out, spanning contracts, KPIs, SLAs, budgeting, and lifecycle cost optimization.