Job description

A landmark giga-project roughly 45 km southwest of Riyadh, designed as the Kingdom's future capital of entertainment, sports, and culture, anchors the scope of this Director, Power Management role within Jacobs' city asset management team. Strategic leadership across the city's power and electrical asset portfolio ensures infrastructure, networks, systems, services, and commercial arrangements stay effectively planned, governed, and optimised throughout their lifecycle. You will develop long-term strategies, lifecycle investment plans, performance frameworks, regulatory assurance, and asset management standards that support safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective power services. Electrical distribution, substations, transformers, switchgear, renewable energy, energy storage, street lighting, and associated control and monitoring systems all fall under this role's oversight, alongside energy efficiency, decarbonisation, and digital enablement priorities. Alignment with the city's asset management framework, sustainability objectives, Saudi regulations, and Vision 2030 priorities gets maintained throughout. Asset information, digital systems, smart-grid technologies, advanced metering, and performance dashboards get established to support informed decision-making. Compliance with electricity regulations, electrical codes, grid requirements, permits, and licensing obligations gets ensured through engagement with relevant authorities. Strong relationships with developers, utility providers, network operators, regulators, and major energy users support power service and sustainability objectives across the destination.