Senior Logistics Manager First National Human Resources Company

The Senior Logistics Manager (Client Side) is accountable for the strategic governance, assurance, and integration of all logistics, access, and site interface activities across the RUA Al Haram Project.

The role represents the Client’s single point of authority for logistics, ensuring that all PMC, contractors, and third parties plan and execute logistics in a manner that protects:

• Public safety

• Religious sensitivities

• Authority compliance

• Schedule certainty

• Client reputation

This role does not execute contractor logistics; it sets the rules, enforces compliance, and intervenes decisively when project outcomes are at risk.

2. Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

2.1 Client Logistics Governance

• Establish and own the Client Project Logistics Strategy and Logistics Governance Framework in line with RUA client-side best practice.

• Approve, conditionally approve, or reject all PMC and contractor logistics plans.

• Define project-wide logistics rules, access hierarchies, delivery windows, and material movement constraints.

• Ensure logistics is fully embedded in master scheduling, construction sequencing, and risk management processes.

2.2 Mecca-Specific Logistics & Religious Interface

• Apply direct, prior experience working in Mecca to proactively manage:

  • Hajj, Ramadan, and Umrah logistics restrictions

  • Prayer time impacts

  • Crowd sensitivity and pedestrian flows

  • Authority-mandated access suspensions

• Ensure all logistics strategies respect religious protocols, community expectations, and security requirements.

• Act as the Client’s senior advisor on what is and is not operationally acceptable in Mecca.

2.3 Stakeholder & Authority Leadership

• Lead senior-level coordination with:

  • Local Municipality

  • Traffic Police

  • Civil Defense

  • Security Authorities

  • RUA internal stakeholders

• Secure Client-level agreements on access, permits, and temporary works impacting public space.

• Represent the Client in all logistics-related authority forums and escalations.

2.4 Contractor & PMC Oversight

• Hold the PMC accountable for enforcing approved logistics plans.

• Challenge contractor sequencing, delivery logic, crane strategies, and laydown assumptions where risk is transferred to the Client.

• Direct corrective actions when logistics failures threaten safety, schedule, or public interface.

• Chair the Client Logistics Steering Committee, with binding decision authority.

2.5 Safety, Security & Public Risk Management

• Ensure all logistics activities comply with:

  • Client HSE requirements

  • Saudi regulatory frameworks

  •  Zero Harm principles (as governance benchmark)

• Intervene immediately where logistics operations create unacceptable public or workforce risk.

• Ensure emergency access routes and contingency plans are continuously maintained and tested.

2.6 Reporting, Controls & Executive Advisory

• Establish logistics KPIs and executive dashboards focused on risk, constraint, and forward-look exposure.

• Provide the Project Director and Executive Leadership with:

  • Clear risk-based advice

  • Decision options

  • Consequence analysis

• Escalate early and factually — no surprises.

3. Mandatory Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Logistics, or related discipline.

Mandatory Experience (Non-Negotiable)

• Minimum 15 years’ experience on large, complex construction or mixed-use developments.

• Demonstrated prior experience working in Mecca on projects subject to religious, crowd, and authority constraints.

• Proven experience in a Client, Developer, or PMC oversight role (not contractor-only).

• Direct exposure to mega-project governance environments comparable to RUA, AECOM, Parsons, Jacobs, or similar.

4. Core Competencies (Client-Side)

Strategic Judgment

• Understands that in Mecca, logistics is reputational risk management, not just material movement.

Authority & Gravitas

• Able to challenge senior PMC and contractor leadership credibly and decisively.

Cultural Intelligence

• Demonstrates deep awareness of religious sensitivities, local authority protocols, and escalation pathways.

Clarity Under Pressure

• Makes defensible decisions during peak periods and access constraints without creating downstream risk.

5. Authority & Decision Rights

The Senior Logistics Manager (Client Side) is authorized to:

• Approve or suspend logistics operations across the project.

• Direct the PMC to enforce or amend contractor logistics plans.

• Escalate directly to the Project Director on matters of safety, public interface, or authority non-compliance.

• Require re-planning where contractor logistics assumptions expose the Client to unacceptable risk.

6. Performance Measures

Performance will be measured against:

• Zero major public interface or crowd-related incidents

• No unplanned authority-imposed access shutdowns

• Effective logistics performance during Hajj, Ramadan, and peak Umrah periods

• Early identification and mitigation of logistics-driven schedule risk

• Positive authority and stakeholder feedback

7. Professional Expectation

This is a senior client-side leadership role requiring:

• Strong on-site presence

• High discretion and judgement

• Confidence to intervene early and decisively