Interface Manager

Overview

Job Description

Interface Manager

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop and implement the interface management strategy and planning activities to ensure all system interface requirements are identified, managed, and delivered throughout the project lifecycle.
• Act as the primary focal point for interface work package contractors, designated interface contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to identify, define, and manage system interface requirements across all project disciplines.
• Lead and chair interface coordination meetings with contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders to facilitate interface resolution and project integration.
• Ensure interface-related deliverables comply with contractual requirements, project standards, and technical specifications.
• Identify and manage project system interfaces through workshops, reviews, and coordination activities with the client and project teams.
• Develop and maintain Interface Management Plans for work packages and system elements.
• Ensure system interface requirements are effectively tracked, monitored, and controlled throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform impact assessments for interface requirements and design changes, and provide recommendations to support management decision-making.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement and integration activities to achieve project objectives related to scope, schedule, budget, quality, sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders and communicate interface issues, approvals, risks, and coordination requirements.
• Manage interface resolution activities and implement mitigation strategies to ensure interface conflicts are resolved in a timely manner.
• Prepare and maintain Interface Management Plans, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Detailed Interface Documents for system interfaces.
• Provide regular interface management reports, status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation plans to the client and project management teams.
• Manage contractors and subcontractors to ensure successful implementation and verification of interface requirements during construction, testing, and commissioning phases.
• Support procurement activities by providing interface management input to tender and contract documentation.
• Support Systems Integration Testing (SIT), Trial Running, and operational readiness activities to ensure all interfaces are validated prior to revenue service.
• Provide guidance, support, and training to interface management team members.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a lead role on major infrastructure or heavy civil projects.
• Strong technical expertise in the design and construction of complex rail systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of railway project design, construction management, systems integration, and stakeholder coordination.
• Strong knowledge of modern railway systems, including signaling systems and system interfaces.
• Experience developing and managing interface management processes, plans, and documentation on large-scale projects.
• Strong leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate within multidisciplinary and multinational project environments.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Arabic language skills.
• Experience on major metro, railway, transit, or transportation infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of systems engineering, interface management, and systems integration best practices.
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