Interface Manager

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, management, and resolution of interfaces among contractors, consultants, operators, utility providers, and client stakeholders.
• Maintain and manage the project interface register, tracking all actions, dependencies, and risks to closure.
• Coordinate interface meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements to facilitate timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Drive the resolution of outstanding technical, construction, commissioning, and operational interface issues affecting project completion and handover.
• Ensure interface requirements are incorporated into commissioning plans, operational readiness activities, and handover strategies.
• Monitor contractor performance related to interface deliverables and completion milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, commercial, HSE, project controls, GIS/BIM, and commissioning teams to ensure alignment across project functions.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate interface-related risks that could impact project delivery, commissioning, or handover.
• Support the review and coordination of handover documentation, asset information, and operational acceptance requirements.
• Provide regular interface status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to project leadership and client stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in interface management, project management, engineering management, or project delivery roles on major infrastructure, utilities, transportation, water, energy, or industrial projects.
• Technical Understanding: Strong understanding of engineering, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, handover processes, and multidisciplinary project delivery.
• Infrastructure Projects: Proven experience managing interfaces on large-scale infrastructure projects involving multiple contractors, stakeholders, and delivery partners.
• Digital Tools: Experience using project management systems, interface management tools, Autodesk Construction Cloud, document management systems, and digital collaboration platforms.
• Project & Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of project controls, risk management, change management, contract administration, stakeholder coordination, and project close-out processes.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, resolve complex issues, and drive decisions in fast-paced project environments.
• Behavioral Skills: Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship management, problem-solving, and organizational skills with a proactive and collaborative approach.
• Preferred Experience
• Working on major water, utilities, or infrastructure programs in the Middle East with exposure to commissioning, operational readiness, and asset handover activities.