Asset Lifecycle Planning Director (Q - CO)

About this role

Jasara Program Management Company (Jasara PMC) is a leading Joint Venture between Public Investment Fund (PIF), Jacobs, and Saudi Aramco, established to deliver world-class program management services across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Jasara plays a key role in supporting the realization of Saudi Vision 2030, particularly in delivering giga-projects and large-scale infrastructure developments.

We are seeking an Asset Lifecycle Planning Director to join JASARA PMC. This role will establish the city-wide asset lifecycle planning framework, renewal rules and risk-based prioritization approach, integrating condition, risk, cost and performance data to shape lifecycle plans and renewal pipelines across portfolios.

The Asset Lifecycle Planning & Integration Director is accountable for establishing the city-wide lifecycle planning principles, frameworks, policies, renewal rules and intervention approach for City Asset Management. The role provides city-wide integration so lifecycle decisions across portfolios follow one unified ISO 55001-aligned AM framework, rather than fragmented local practices, and ensures decisions balance cost, risk, performance, service outcomes and whole-life asset value.

The role acts as the bridge between City AM portfolios and City Operations by defining lifecycle principles, intervention thresholds, maintenance policies, renewal criteria and cross-asset prioritization rules. It works with asset leads across the wider City AM team to ensure lifecycle plans reflect asset condition, criticality, hierarchy, service levels, O&M feedback and operational realities.

It also works closely with the Enterprise AM Systems / SAP EAMS Director to ensure the AM platform and SAP EAMS produce the data, dashboards and decision-support outputs required to provide one trusted view of asset risk, condition, performance, backlog and lifecycle pressures across the city.

Key Responsibilities

• Lifecycle Planning Framework, Principles and Policies

· Establish the city-wide asset lifecycle planning framework, principles, policies and governance approach for City AM, aligned to the AM Policy, AM Strategy and ISO 55001 principles.

• · Define lifecycle planning standards that balance cost, risk, performance, service quality, safety, maintainability, resilience and long-term asset value.
• · Set the approach for managing assets across their life, including how condition, criticality, hierarchy, risk, service levels and whole-life cost inform planning decisions.
• · Develop renewal rules, intervention approaches, planning assumptions and decision criteria for assets across portfolios and districts.
• · Set out consistent requirements for lifecycle plans, asset management plans, renewal pipelines, budget inputs and portfolio-level investment recommendations.
• · Ensure lifecycle planning reflects agreed asset ownership boundaries, leasing arrangements, cost structures and links to capital and operating budget planning.
• · Align lifecycle planning with operational readiness, handover, maintenance policies, SAP EAMS capabilities, AM governance and City Operations monitoring requirements.
• Renewal Pipeline and Risk-Based Prioritisation
• · Develop the city-wide lifecycle and renewal pipeline by joining condition, risk, cost, performance, criticality and maintenance data across portfolios.
• · Prioritise assets coming into operation between 2026 and 2028, ensuring renewal needs, early-life risks and lifecycle obligations are visible before handover.
• · Set risk-based prioritisation rules that guide when assets are maintained, monitored, refurbished, renewed, replaced or escalated for investment decision.
• · Create practical rules for transferring lifecycle planning outputs and prioritisation logic to incoming City Operations resources once recruited.
• · Ensure prioritisation decisions are transparent, evidence-based and auditable, supporting whole-life cost and value optimisation.
• Intervention Thresholds and Maintenance Policy Integration
• · Work with asset leads across the wider City AM team to define intervention thresholds, maintenance policies, inspection triggers and asset-specific lifecycle requirements.
• · Ensure lifecycle planning reflects portfolio-specific asset behaviour, usage intensity, condition profiles, criticality, service impacts and operational constraints.
• · Translate asset class requirements into consistent planning rules for renewals, planned maintenance, condition monitoring, deterioration assumptions and replacement strategies.
• · Challenge proposed interventions where cost, risk, performance or lifecycle value are not sufficiently evidenced.
• · Ensure maintenance and intervention policies remain aligned with operational readiness, O&M feedback, budget planning and long-term asset management objectives.
• SAP EAMS and Data Integration for Lifecycle Planning

· Work with the Enterprise AM Systems / SAP EAMS Director to ensure the AM platform and SAP EAMS are ready to support lifecycle planning, renewal forecasting, intervention rules, condition scoring, risk prioritisation and cost-performance analysis.

· Define lifecycle data requirements, including asset hierarchy, classification, condition, criticality, failure modes, replacement value, expected life, maintenance history, cost, risk, performance and renewal information.

· Ensure dashboards and reports provide usable outputs for lifecycle forecasts, renewal pipelines, budget inputs, risk registers, backlog visibility, performance trends and portfolio decision-making.

• · Link asset management outputs to financial reporting and work-management systems to support one version of the truth for lifecycle planning and investment decisions.

· Validate that data captured during handover and early operations is sufficient to support lifecycle planning, total cost of ownership, renewal prioritisation and adaptive change management.

• · Promote a single source of lifecycle asset information that supports balanced decisions over the full lifespan of each asset.
• Portfolio and Infrastructure Asset Integration
• · Lead integration of lifecycle planning across asset portfolios, ensuring common AM standards while allowing asset-class specific intervention rules and maintenance policies.
• · Direct the Asset Lifecycle & Costing Senior Manager to develop lifecycle cost models, renewal forecasts, budget inputs and whole-life cost analysis across asset portfolios.
• · Direct the Infrastructure Assets Integration Manager to work with the Infrastructure portfolio lead on lifecycle plans and programmes for roads and car parks.
• · Ensure risks, issues and opportunities from O&M are fed back into prioritisation, lifecycle plans, asset management plans and renewal pipelines.

· Coordinate with asset class leads to ensure lifecycle assumptions reflect operational realities, service expectations, deterioration patterns, usage intensity and maintenance strategy.

• · Provide a city-wide integrated view of asset risk, performance, backlog and lifecycle pressures to inform capital and Opex planning.

· Support integrated planning across City AM so lifecycle, costing, risk, criticality, operational integration and infrastructure asset priorities are joined up across the city operating model.

• Lifecycle Costing, Budget Inputs and Investment Planning
• · Direct the Asset Lifecycle & Costing Senior Manager to develop lifecycle cost models, renewal forecasts, total cost of ownership analysis and portfolio-level budget inputs.
• · Translate lifecycle plans into prioritised renewal programmes, multi-year capital requirements and operating budget implications.
• · Ensure investment recommendations are supported by condition, risk, cost, criticality, performance, backlog and service-impact evidence.
• · Support capital and Opex planning by identifying short-, medium- and long-term renewal needs, funding risks, deferral impacts and value optimisation options.
• · Use KPI and trend reporting, performance monitoring and O&M feedback loops to refine lifecycle assumptions, renewal timing and maintenance strategies.
• · Provide leadership reports on lifecycle cost exposure, renewal priorities, affordability constraints, risks, backlog and value-for-money options.
• Stakeholder Interface and Handover to Operations

· Work closely with City Operations, O&M teams, asset class leads, governance and assurance teams, handover teams and SAP EAMS stakeholders to embed lifecycle requirements before assets become operational.

• · Ensure lifecycle planning outputs are transferred into operational ownership, including renewal rules, intervention thresholds, prioritisation logic and known asset risks.
• · Support handover to incoming City Operations resources once recruited, ensuring lifecycle planning methods and renewal pipeline ownership are clearly documented.
• · Provide expert input into Stage Gate, readiness and handover processes where lifecycle, renewal or whole-life cost implications affect decisions.
• · Ensure lifecycle risks, issues and opportunities are visible to leadership and reflected in asset management planning and governance forums.
• Continuous Improvement and Lifecycle Policy Development
• · Develop and continuously improve lifecycle planning policies, frameworks, templates, intervention logic, renewal rules, decision criteria and prioritisation methodologies.

· Use asset performance monitoring, condition data, risk trends, cost data, O&M feedback, lessons learned and SAP EAMS outputs to refine lifecycle assumptions and planning standards.

• · Ensure lifecycle planning supports asset monitoring and continuous improvement, including cost, risk and asset health reporting, adaptive change management and lessons learned.
• · Benchmark lifecycle planning approaches and promote consistency with ISO 55001-aligned asset management principles and relevant international good practice.
• · Ensure lifecycle frameworks remain practical, scalable and usable by asset leads, O&M teams, portfolio teams and future City Operations resources.
• · Build lifecycle planning capability across City AM through guidance, workshops, governance routines and clear decision-support tools.

Requirements

• Education
• · Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Cost and Performance balance, Operations Management, Facilities Management, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• · Master's degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
• · Professional certification or membership in asset management, project management, data governance, SAP EAM or information management is desirable.
• Experience

· Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in asset management, lifecycle planning, renewals, maintenance strategy, infrastructure operations, portfolio planning or asset investment planning, including senior leadership experience.

• · Proven experience developing lifecycle planning frameworks, intervention policies, renewal rules, asset management plans and risk-based prioritisation approaches.
• · Experience joining condition, risk, cost, performance and maintenance data to develop lifecycle forecasts, renewal pipelines and investment recommendations.
• · Experience working with asset leads, O&M teams and enterprise asset management systems to define data requirements, intervention thresholds and decision-support outputs.
• · Experience leading or directing lifecycle costing, infrastructure asset integration, roads, car parks, utilities, public realm, built environment or city operations portfolios.

· Experience in public sector, infrastructure, city operations, giga-projects, facilities management, transport, real estate or major destination environments is strongly preferred.

• Preferred Background

· Background in lifecycle asset management, infrastructure asset management, maintenance strategy, renewals planning, capital planning, AM policy or portfolio-level asset investment planning.

· Practical exposure to ISO 55001 or ISO 55000-aligned asset management systems, including lifecycle value, risk-based decision-making, stakeholder requirements and continual improvement.

• · Experience working across asset data, SAP EAMS/CMMS, O&M, finance, governance, handover and portfolio teams to turn lifecycle policy into operational and investment plans.
• Technical & Functional Expectations
• · Lifecycle planning frameworks, renewal rules, intervention thresholds, maintenance policies and asset management planning.
• · Risk-based prioritisation, whole-life cost, cost-risk-performance trade-offs, value optimisation and investment planning.
• · Condition, risk, cost, criticality, performance and maintenance data integration for lifecycle forecasting and renewal pipelines.
• · SAP EAMS/CMMS lifecycle data requirements, dashboards, reports and decision-support outputs.
• · Infrastructure asset lifecycle planning, roads, car parks, O&M feedback loops and portfolio integration.
• · ISO 55001-aligned asset management principles, lifecycle value, risk management and continual improvement.