Manager – Geotechnical

Job Purpose:

The Manager – Geotechnical (Client Side) is accountable for the strategic oversight, governance, assurance, and integration of all geotechnical investigation, ground engineering, subsurface risk management, and related technical field data activities across assigned infrastructure packages within the KSG Infrastructure Works program.

Responsibilities:

Client Geotechnical Governance

• Establish and own the Client-side geotechnical governance framework across assigned infrastructure packages in line with RUA delivery requirements and best practice.
• Define project-wide standards for geotechnical investigations, borehole programs, trial pits, in-situ testing, laboratory testing, groundwater monitoring, factual reporting, interpretive reporting, and geotechnical design inputs.
• Approve, conditionally approve, or reject geotechnical scopes, work plans, method statements, testing strategies, and technical deliverables submitted by consultants and contractors where required by the Client governance process.
• Ensure geotechnical activities are fully integrated into infrastructure planning, design development, enabling works, demolition, temporary works, utilities, and construction sequencing.

Geotechnical Delivery Leadership

• Lead the client-side oversight of geotechnical investigations and related ground engineering activities from mobilization through execution, reporting, interpretation, and close-out.
• Ensure field investigations are executed in accordance with approved scope, technical standards, permits, HSE requirements, quality procedures, and program commitments.
• Maintain full visibility over drilling progress, testing progress, sample recovery, groundwater observations, laboratory turnaround, report issuance, and critical technical dependencies.
• Direct early intervention where slippage, incomplete testing, weak field execution, poor sample quality, delayed reporting, or unresolved ground risks threaten design development or project delivery outcomes.

Consultant, Contractor & Laboratory Oversight

• Hold supervision consultants accountable for effective field monitoring, factual verification, technical review, and timely escalation of geotechnical issues.
• Ensure current and future site supervision consultants, and others as mobilized, are actively supporting the Client through disciplined verification of drilling progress, test completion, field conditions, sample handling, and factual records.
• Hold geotechnical contractors, drilling subcontractors, specialist testing subcontractors, and laboratories accountable for compliance with approved procedures, technical specifications, HSE requirements, and reporting timelines.
• Challenge poor methodologies, weak sequencing, inadequate test coverage, unsupported interpretations, delayed laboratory outputs, and any approach that transfers unquantified ground risk to the Client.

Technical Assurance & Ground Risk Management

• Ensure all geotechnical data is technically robust, traceable, and suitable for design development, construction planning, temporary works, and risk assessment.
• Oversee the quality and completeness of:

Borehole Logs

Trial Pit Logs

CPT and In-Situ Testing

Groundwater Monitoring

Laboratory Testing

Factual Geotechnical Reports

Interpretive Geotechnical Reports

Geotechnical Risk Assessments

• Identify, assess, and manage subsurface risks including variable strata, weak ground, groundwater, obstructions, voids, contamination, slope instability, and buildability concerns.
• Ensure ground-related risks are clearly recorded, communicated, and reflected in design assumptions, temporary works planning, package readiness, and delivery strategies.

Stakeholder & Interface Leadership

• Lead senior coordination across geotechnical interfaces involving:
• Infrastructure Design Teams
• Temporary Works
• Structural And Civil Disciplines
• Demolition And Enabling Works
• Survey Teams
• Utilities
• Permits and Authorities
• Internal RUA Stakeholders
• Ensure geotechnical outputs are aligned with package needs, design milestones, program requirements, and downstream construction activities.
• Support resolution of conflicts between geotechnical findings, design assumptions, field realities, and construction sequencing.

Quality, HSE & Compliance Assurance

• Ensure all geotechnical activities comply with:
• Client Technical Requirements
• Approved Investigation Standards And Procedures
• HSE Obligations
• Saudi Regulatory Frameworks
• Authority and Permit Conditions
• Intervene immediately where drilling, testing, sampling, access arrangements, or laboratory processes create unacceptable quality, safety, or compliance risk.
• Ensure quality control, equipment calibration, sample custody, chain of evidence, field records, and technical documentation are maintained to a standard suitable for design reliance, audit, and claims defensibility.

Program, Controls & Executive Advisory

• Ensure geotechnical progress, outputs, technical issues, and ground risks are fully embedded within the project controls and reporting framework.
• Maintain executive-level visibility over:
• Drilling and Testing Progress
• Factual and Interpretive Reporting Status
• Laboratory Turnaround
• Data Gaps
• Unresolved Technical Issues
• Ground Risk Exposure
• Program Impacts
• Required Interventions
• Provide the Project Director and Executive Leadership with:
• Clear Fact Based Advice
• Decision Options
• Consequence Analysis
• Recommended Mitigation and Recovery Actions
• Escalate early and clearly no surprises.

Recovery, Corrective Action & Delivery Assurance

• Maintain active oversight of geotechnical package risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
• Ensure recovery plans are prepared, challenged, agreed, and implemented where investigation activities fall behind program or fail to meet technical requirements.
• Drive disciplined action tracking with clear owners, due dates, and follow-up until closure.
• Support change, claims, and commercial management by ensuring geotechnical records, progress evidence, factual conditions, delays, and interface impacts are contemporaneously maintained.

Requirements:

Mandatory Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geological Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Engineering, or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Mandatory Experience (Non-Negotiable)

• Minimum 12 to15 years’ experience in geotechnical engineering, site investigation, ground engineering, or related infrastructure delivery roles on major infrastructure, enabling works, civil works, or complex multi-package developments.
• Proven experience in a Client, Developer, PMC, EPCM, or major program oversight role with direct responsibility for geotechnical investigations, technical assurance, reporting, and ground risk management.
• Demonstrated experience managing consultants, contractors, laboratories, and technical interfaces across multiple active geotechnical work fronts.
• Strong track record in geotechnical delivery oversight covering investigation planning, field execution, technical review, data validation, interpretation review, program integration, and recovery planning.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia or GCC on large-scale infrastructure or mixed-use developments is strongly preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience working in Mecca or on projects with significant access, authority, stakeholder, religious, or public interface constraints.
• Exposure to major program governance environments comparable to RUA, AECOM, Bechtel, Parsons, Jacobs, or equivalent.
• Experience working in a client-led delivery model supported by site supervision consultants and multiple contractors.
• Familiarity with factual versus interpretive reporting discipline, geotechnical baselines, and the downstream use of ground data for design, procurement, and construction risk management.

Core Competencies (Client-Side)

Strategic Technical Judgment

Understands that geotechnical engineering on a major infrastructure program is not limited to boreholes and test results; it is a critical risk-management function that directly influences design certainty, temporary works, safety, cost, program, and reputation.

Authority & Gravitas

Able to challenge senior consultant, contractor, and laboratory leadership credibly, clearly, and decisively where methods, data quality, interpretations, or reporting standards are unacceptable.

Governance & Controls Discipline

Maintains rigorous control over investigation status, technical outputs, risks, corrective actions, and escalation, and understands that client-side geotechnical leadership requires structure, evidence, and discipline.

Interface Leadership

Able to manage multiple technical and delivery interfaces simultaneously without losing control of design priorities, field realities, or program obligations.

Clarity Under Pressure

Makes sound, defensible decisions in fast-moving site conditions and escalates before technical uncertainty becomes a program, commercial, or reputational issue.

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