Role summary
The Director for Roads and Car Parks serves as the Subject Matter Expert responsible for strategic planning, assurance, governance, performance monitoring, operational readiness, asset management, and lifecycle optimization of roads, tunnels, and car park infrastructure. The role provides technical leadership and oversight across the full asset lifecycle, ensuring infrastructure assets are safe, reliable, sustainable, compliant, and aligned with organizational objectives and industry best practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement long-term strategy for roads, tunnels, and car park assets
- Establish asset management frameworks, standards, policies, and procedures aligned with international best practices
- Support executive leadership in defining infrastructure investment priorities and capital planning strategies
- Act as technical authority and SME for all roads, tunnels, and parking-related infrastructure matters
- Lead asset lifecycle management including planning, design review, operation, maintenance, renewal, and replacement strategies
- Develop and maintain asset management plans, asset condition assessments, and long-term investment programs
- Ensure infrastructure assets achieve required service levels while optimizing whole-life costs
- Oversee asset criticality assessments and risk-based maintenance approaches
- Lead Stage Gate Assurance reviews for roads, tunnels, and car park projects
- Review project deliverables and provide technical recommendations for Go/No-Go decisions
- Ensure compliance with organizational governance requirements, industry standards, and regulatory obligations
- Conduct technical audits, performance reviews, and assurance assessments
- Review and approve engineering designs, specifications, standards, and technical submissions
- Ensure designs meet operational, safety, sustainability, accessibility, and maintainability requirements
- Evaluate innovative technologies, smart mobility solutions, and industry developments
- Provide expert technical guidance on road geometry, pavement systems, tunnel systems, drainage, parking facilities, traffic management, and associated infrastructure
- Monitor operational performance of road, tunnel, and parking assets
- Ensure maintenance strategies are effectively implemented to maximize asset performance and reliability
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency and service levels
- Support operational readiness and transition from project delivery to operations
- Identify infrastructure risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Ensure compliance with local regulations, international standards, and health and safety requirements
- Oversee emergency response, resilience planning, and business continuity considerations for critical infrastructure
- Monitor environmental and sustainability performance requirements
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including project teams, operators, consultants, contractors, regulators, and government authorities
- Represent organization in technical committees and industry forums
- Provide executive-level reporting and technical advice to senior leadership
- Develop and monitor KPIs related to asset performance, condition, availability, reliability, and lifecycle costs
- Establish reporting dashboards and performance review processes
- Ensure data-driven decision-making through asset intelligence and performance analytics
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline
- Master's degree in Engineering, Infrastructure Management, Asset Management, or related field (preferred)
- Chartered Engineer, PE, or equivalent (preferred)
- Certified Asset Management Assessor qualification (preferred)
- IAM Certificate/Diploma or equivalent asset management qualification (preferred)
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification (preferred)
- Relevant transportation, tunnel, or infrastructure certifications (preferred)
Requirements
- 20+ years of experience in transportation, infrastructure, roads, tunnels, or parking asset management
- Minimum 8 years in senior leadership or management role
- Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure programs, smart cities, municipalities, giga projects, or transportation authorities
- Strong background in asset management, operations, maintenance, and infrastructure lifecycle planning
- Experience leading technical assurance and stage-gate reviews
Education
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline
Experience
20+ years of experience in transportation, infrastructure, roads, tunnels, or parking asset management with minimum 8 years in senior leadership or management role
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Asset management
- Lifecycle planning
- Assurance and governance
- Performance monitoring
- Operational readiness
- Risk management
- Regulatory compliance
- Road engineering
- Pavement systems
- Tunnel systems
- Smart mobility solutions
- Large-scale program management
Education · Experience · Type
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