Senior Manager - Facade

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. The project: This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia. This unique project consists of major mixed-use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure. Mace is one of the delivery partners requiring high-calibre and experienced professionals to lead integrated teams throughout each phase of the project. The senior manager – façade engineering provides technical leadership across ensuring design quality, compliance and sustainability from concept to construction. The role supports consultant performance, coordinated design delivery, value engineering and stakeholder engagement to create investment-grade office assets and regulatory requirements. Your responsibilities will include: • Champion safety first, wellbeing and inclusion, while ensuring compliance with local HSW standards and visible safety leadership. • Manage end-to-end project delivery, quality systems, programme milestones, design development, procurement and construction phase requirements. • Oversee budgets, risks, governance and sustainable business outcomes, acting with integrity and accountability. • Manage collaborative teams and stakeholders, driving performance, innovation, best practice and continuous improvement. • Manage safety, wellbeing and values. • Oversee collaborative, accountable, high-performing teams. • Manage façade design, technical reviews and consultant coordination. • Oversee compliant delivery, mitigates risk and monitors progress. • Supports the design team(s) in undertaking technical design reviews to ensure compliance with all project requirements and strategy, project, design and development briefs. • Supports the design managers in coordination with external consultants through design stages ensuring conformity to the project stated objectives, in line with stage gate approval process, and provides recommendations. • Reviews outputs of design consultants, including related design documentation, to ensure compliance with all project requirements and strategy, project, design and development briefs. • Manages coordination and collaboration between development, delivery, construction, consultants, contractors and authorities to ensure early identification of design risk and proposal of mitigating strategies. • Ensures all design and development teams maintain strict compliance with industry standards, codes, required regulations and framework, regulations and COBU design technical, sustainability, and smart building guidelines to guarantee the success of the project. • Assesses the Consultants and Contractors structural engineering submittals to ensure conformity to the specifications including correct processes and procedures. • Oversee functional structural engineering review and report on progress of design/engineering deliverables based on agreed milestone gates and earned value. • Acts as structural engineering technical liaison including design matters relating to contracting, procurement and requisitions. You’ll need to have: • Bachelor's Degree in façade engineering, or related discipline. A master's degree would be an advantage. • Professional registration in the respective discipline (or similar – i.e. Chartered Engineer) would be an advantage registration as a Project Management Professional (PMP) would be an advantage. • 10–12+ years of façade engineering management experience, including senior design leadership on large-scale commercial office or mixed-use developments. • Experience in leading a design team to deliver to program, balancing competing requirements on project to deliver design outcome (e.g. cost v. time v. quality). • Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes and regulations. • Previous KSA/Middle East experience preferred • Track record delivering BCO Grade A/investment-grade office towers or business park product from concept through to handover. • Strong command of design review processes, authority approval pathways and international best practice in commercial office design. • Experience managing multi-disciplinary international consultant teams (architecture, structure, MEP, facade, sustainability). • Excellent stakeholder management and executive presentation skills; comfortable operating in a fast-paced, giga-project delivery environment • Major program experience – managing multiple projects, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders. • Supports team through periods of business change. • Provides strategic oversight and guidance in managing and prioritizing the workload, deadline-driven and ability to optimize workload. • Leverage exceptional written and verbal skills in English – articulate ideas, strategies, and

• Degree in façade engineering or related discipline; master’s preferred. • Chartered engineer or PMP accreditation advantageous. • Significant façade leadership experience on major commercial or mixed-use developments. • Strong design, stakeholder, consultant and programme leadership capability.

• Champion Safety First, wellbeing and inclusion, while ensuring compliance with local HSW standards and visible safety leadership. • Manage end-to-end project delivery, quality systems, programme milestones, design development, procurement and construction phase requirements. • Oversee budgets, risks, governance and sustainable business outcomes, acting with integrity and accountability. • Manage collaborative teams and stakeholders, driving performance, innovation, best practice and continuous improvement. • Manage safety first, wellbeing and values across all activities. • Manage façade engineering input, reviews and compliance through design stages. • Oversee consultants, contractors and authorities to manage risk and delivery. • Drive high-performance teams, governance, quality, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement.