Infrastructure Manager

The Senior Manager – Infrastructure is accountable for the strategic oversight, governance, assurance, and integration of infrastructure delivery across assigned packages within the KSG Infrastructure Works program. The role acts as the Client’s senior representative for infrastructure execution, ensuring that all consultants, contractors, and third parties deliver in a manner that protects:SafetyQualitySchedule certaintyAuthority complianceThis role does not execute contractor work directly; it establishes the delivery expectations, enforces compliance, coordinates interfaces, drives recovery where required, and intervenes decisively when project outcomes are at risk. The role must ensure that all package performance is managed in accordance with best practice and Gold Standard accurately tracked, actively controlled, realistically forecast, clearly reported, and promptly mitigated where delivery exposure exists.Key Responsibilities & AccountabilitiesClient Infrastructure GovernanceEstablish and maintain the Client-side infrastructure delivery framework across assigned packages in line with RUA governance requirements and best practice.Provide senior oversight of package planning, execution readiness, delivery performance, and close-out requirements.Approve, conditionally approve, or reject key delivery plans, sequencing proposals, and recovery approaches submitted by consultants and contractors where required by the Client governance process.Ensure infrastructure delivery is fully integrated with project controls, interfaces, authority approvals, logistics, safety, and quality management processes.Package Delivery LeadershipLead client-side oversight of major infrastructure packages from mobilization through execution and handover.Ensure contractors and consultants are performing in accordance with approved scope, program, drawings, specifications, permits, and technical requirements.Maintain full visibility over package status, critical path activities, key milestones, constraints, and delivery risks.Direct early intervention where slippage, weak contractor performance, poor coordination, or unresolved interfaces threaten project outcomes.Hold supervision consultants accountable for effective site oversight, accurate field verification, timely reporting, and proactive issue escalation.Ensure current and future site supervision consultants are supporting the Client through disciplined monitoring of progress, quality, safety, and field constraints.Challenge contractor execution logic, sequencing, productivity assumptions, temporary works strategies, and recovery plans where risk is being transferred to the Client.Direct corrective actions when contractor or consultant performance threatens safety, quality, schedule, authority compliance, or public interface.Stakeholder & Interface LeadershipLead senior coordination across package interfaces involving:Adjacent ContractorsDesign TeamsSupervision ConsultantsUtilitiesPermits and AuthoritiesInternal RUA StakeholdersEnsure access, approvals, information flow, temporary works, and construction interfaces are identified early and actively managed.Represent the Client in infrastructure‑related coordination forums, interface reviews, and delivery escalations.Quality, HSE & Compliance AssuranceEnsure All Assigned Packages Are Executed In Compliance With:Client Technical RequirementsApproved Quality StandardsHSE ObligationsAuthority and Permit ConditionsIntervene immediately where contractor or consultant activities create unacceptable quality, safety, or compliance risk.Ensure inspections, NCR management, testing, close‑out, and field verification processes are being properly implemented and tracked.Program, Controls & Executive ReportingEnsure infrastructure package performance is fully embedded within the project controls and reporting framework.Maintain executive‑level visibility over:ProgressForecast DatesCritical ActivitiesKey Risks and ConstraintsPending ApprovalsRecovery ActionsProvide project leadership with:Clear Fact‑Based AdviceDecision OptionsConsequence AnalysisRecommended InterventionsEscalate early and clearly — no surprisesRisk, Recovery & Delivery AssuranceMaintain active oversight of package‑level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.Ensure recovery plans are produced, challenged, agreed, and implemented where progress or performance deviates from plan.Drive disciplined action tracking with clear owners, due dates, and follow‑up until closure.Support change, claims, and commercial management by ensuring package records, progress status, and interface conditions are contemporaneously maintained. (osha.gov)Mandatory Qualifications & ExperienceEducationBachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.Mandatory Experience (Non‑Negotiable)Minimum 12 to 15 years’ experience on major infrastructure, enabling works, civil works, or complex multi‑package developments.Prove