Asset Lifecycle Planning Director

Role summary

Jasara Program Management Company (Jasara PMC), a leading joint venture between Public Investment Fund, Jacobs, and Saudi Aramco, seeks an Asset Lifecycle Planning Director. This role will establish 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.

Responsibilities

• Establish city-wide asset lifecycle planning framework, principles, policies and governance approach aligned to AM Policy, Strategy and ISO 55001 principles
• Define lifecycle planning standards balancing cost, risk, performance, service quality, safety, maintainability, resilience and long-term asset value
• Set approach for managing assets across their life, including how condition, criticality, hierarchy, risk, service levels and whole-life cost inform decisions
• Develop renewal rules, intervention approaches, planning assumptions and decision criteria for assets across portfolios and districts
• Set 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
• Develop city-wide lifecycle and renewal pipeline joining condition, risk, cost, performance, criticality and maintenance data across portfolios
• Prioritize assets entering operation between 2026 and 2028, ensuring renewal needs, early-life risks and lifecycle obligations are visible before handover
• Set risk-based prioritization rules guiding when assets are maintained, monitored, refurbished, renewed, replaced or escalated for investment decision
• Create practical rules for transferring lifecycle planning outputs and prioritization logic to incoming City Operations resources once recruited
• Ensure prioritization decisions are transparent, evidence-based and auditable, supporting whole-life cost and value optimization
• Work with asset leads across wider City AM team to define intervention thresholds, maintenance policies, inspection triggers and asset-specific requirements
• Ensure lifecycle planning reflects portfolio-specific asset behavior, 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 management objectives
• Work with Enterprise AM Systems / SAP EAMS Director ensuring AM platform and SAP EAMS support lifecycle planning, renewal forecasting, intervention rules, condition scoring and risk prioritization
• 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 supporting one version of truth for lifecycle planning and investment decisions
• Validate data captured during handover and early operations is sufficient for lifecycle planning, total cost of ownership, renewal prioritization and adaptive change management
• Promote single source of lifecycle asset information supporting balanced decisions over full lifespan of each asset

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Cost and Performance Balance, Operations Management, Facilities Management, Business Administration or related discipline
• Master's degree in relevant discipline preferred
• Professional certification or membership in asset management, project management, data governance, SAP EAM or information management desirable
• Minimum 15 years 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 prioritization 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 strongly preferred

Requirements

• 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
• Lifecycle planning frameworks, renewal rules, intervention thresholds, maintenance policies and asset management planning
• Risk-based prioritization, whole-life cost, cost-risk-performance trade-offs, value optimization 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

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Cost and Performance Balance, Operations Management, Facilities Management, Business Administration or related discipline; Master's degree in relevant discipline preferred

Experience

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

Skills

• Lifecycle planning frameworks, renewal rules and intervention thresholds
• Risk-based prioritization and whole-life cost analysis
• Data integration and lifecycle forecasting
• SAP EAMS/CMMS systems and reporting
• Infrastructure asset lifecycle planning
• ISO 55001 asset management principles

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