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Site Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview
AtkinsRéalis is seeking an experienced Programme Director to provide executive leadership, governance oversight, and strategic delivery management across a large-scale rail infrastructure and systems programme. The role will lead multidisciplinary engineering, construction, commercial, systems integration, and operational teams through planning, delivery, testing, commissioning, stakeholder coordination, and operational readiness activities in alignment with programme objectives, quality requirements, and regulatory obligations.
Your role
- Lead overall programme governance, delivery strategy, and executive-level decision-making across all workstreams.
- Direct multidisciplinary engineering, construction, commercial, systems integration, and operational teams to ensure programme objectives are achieved.
- Establish programme management frameworks, reporting systems, and assurance processes aligned with industry best practice.
- Manage strategic stakeholder engagement with client representatives, government authorities, contractors, operators, and third parties.
- Oversee programme-wide risk, change control, schedule recovery, and commercial performance management.
- Ensure testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness activities are integrated into programme delivery.
- Drive compliance with safety, quality, environmental, and regulatory obligations throughout programme execution.
- Mentor senior leadership teams and promote a high-performance delivery culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Location
Site Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-155485
Salary range
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About you
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum 20 years' professional experience with at least 12 years in senior programme or project director roles.
- Extensive experience on major rail, infrastructure, transportation, or industrial programmes.
- Strong understanding of programme controls, systems integration, interface management, and operational readiness.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams within complex stakeholder environments.
- Strong commercial, contractual, and risk management capability.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and executive reporting skills.
- Professional membership or chartership preferred (PMP, APM, PE, CEng, or equivalent).
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?
Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.
This includes:
- Tax-free salary.
- Life insurance coverage.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual leave balance.
- Company gratuity scheme.
- Discretionary bonus program.
- Annual flight contribution.
- Transportation & housing allowances.
- Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.
Make it brilliant, a career with AtkinsRéalis
Our supportive, collaborative culture inspires us as a global community every day.
Watch this short film and imagine what you could achieve here, too.
About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
#RailME
Our Transportation business brings together expertise in rail, highways, and local transport into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. Within Rail, our Systems & Infrastructure capability provides leading expertise across signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and integrated operations. We combine technical excellence with a human-centered approach, ensuring that railway systems are designed for performance, reliability, safety, and long-term operability.
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