Digital Infra Planning Director

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.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Manage day-to-day planning coordination for digital infrastructure packages, including planning baselines, phasing logic, sequencing, dependencies, critical interfaces, constructability inputs, co-build opportunities, and alignment with district CMP/DMP submissions.

• Lead demand forecasting and capacity planning inputs, including fiber demand, mobile coverage needs, data center/edge capacity, smart city use cases, resilience requirements, spare capacity, growth assumptions, and short-/mid-/long-term planning horizons.

• Coordinate planning interfaces with design, construction, utilities, authorities, operators, and consultants, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST, MOMRAH, SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, data center operators, and external EPC/design consultants.

• Review and validate digital infrastructure planning submissions, including fiber routes, tower siting plans, MMR/POP locations, duct-bank layouts, right-of-way requirements, utility dependencies, access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy paths, and commissioning/handover planning inputs.

• Track progress against approved planning baselines and report variances, including planning risks, schedule impacts, change requests, planning deviations, authority dependencies, delayed inputs, and mitigation actions for escalation to the Planning Director.

• Support planning governance and review forums, including preparing planning dashboards, issue logs, risk registers, decision papers, steering committee inputs, technical review comments, and planning approval recommendations.

• Ensure planning compliance with applicable standards and project requirements, including CST, SBC, MOMRAH right-of-way requirements, cybersecurity/resilience requirements, sustainability targets, operational readiness, O&M access, maintainability, and future scalability.

• Support operational readiness and transition planning, ensuring that commissioning, integrated system testing, cutover, training, spares, O&M access, as-built documentation, and phased handover requirements are embedded into the planning schedule.

• Lead and mentor planning engineers/coordinators within the digital infrastructure planning team, promote planning best practices, maintain planning trackers, ensure quality of outputs, and support coordination between planning, design, construction, and external consultants.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management.

• Minimum 15+ years’ experience in ICT, telecoms, smart city, data center, utilities, or critical infrastructure planning, preferably on city-wide, giga-project, mixed-use, campus, or major infrastructure programs.

• Strong experience in digital infrastructure planning, including phased implementation plans, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, district connectivity, MMR/POP planning, duct corridors, and right-of-way coordination.

• Proven coordination experience across design, construction, utilities, authorities, consultants, operators, and contractors, including SEC, NWC, district cooling, CST/MOMRAH/SDAIA, MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, and data center operators.

• Strong planning control and reporting capabilities, including baseline tracking, phasing adjustments, change requests, risk registers.

Our values

Safety first – Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.

Client focus – Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.

Integrity – Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.

Create opportunity – For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role

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