Junior Project Manager – Onsite (Saudi National Only)

The role

The PMC Lead / Site Director will lead the delivery of a major hyperscale data center project. This person serves as the single point of accountability to the Owner for project governance, stakeholder coordination, and performance management.

What you will do

• Serve as the PMC primary point of accountability to the Owner for overall project delivery.
• Lead project governance, coordination, decision-making, and escalation processes.
• Provide strategic leadership across construction, project controls, commercial, quality, HSE, and commissioning functions.
• Coordinate activities between the Owner, Site Supervision Consultant, designers, contractors, vendors, utility providers, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor overall project performance against approved cost, schedule, quality, safety, and commissioning objectives.
• Ensure project risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are identified, tracked, and resolved.
• Lead executive-level project meetings, governance reviews, and performance discussions.
• Review and challenge project progress, forecasts, key milestones, and contractor performance.
• Ensure alignment between design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Oversee the performance of the PMC project team and ensure clear accountability across disciplines.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional certification or chartered status.
• Minimum 10 years of overall professional experience in major construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical project delivery.
• Demonstrated experience delivering at least one hyperscale data center project of 15MW or greater.
• Strong experience leading complex multidisciplinary project teams.
• Extensive knowledge of project governance, stakeholder management, construction delivery, project controls, commercial management, quality, HSE, and commissioning.
• Proven ability to manage multiple contractors, consultants, designers, and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of cost, schedule, risk, quality, safety, and commissioning performance management.
• Experience providing executive-level project reporting and recommendations to clients or Owners.
• Strong decision-making, negotiation, escalation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities.

Nice to have

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• MRICS or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent.
• Experience working on hyperscale or mission-critical data center developments.
• Experience within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) environment.
• Strong familiarity with EPC, design-build, and multi-contractor project delivery models.
• Experience working in KSA or the wider GCC region.
• Knowledge of international construction contracts and project governance standards.

About the company

Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East.