New Deployments Lead, Nigeria
On-siteLagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Summary
Own full lifecycle delivery and formal operational handover for all new Zipline sites in Nigeria, managing site selection, permitting, construction, commissioning, and safety acceptance. Lead a portfolio of deployments up to 12 total, maintaining integrated program plans, risk registers, and escalation points while defining binary launch-readiness acceptance criteria. Build and lead the Nigeria deployments team, managing vendors, contractors, and external consultants to enforce measurable acceptance tests and defect thresholds. Coordinate daily with Operations, Safety, Engineering, and Regulatory partners to resolve readiness issues, own in-country deployment budgets, and report variances to stakeholders. Capture lessons learned to continuously improve deployment playbooks and SOPs. Must be a licensed civil engineer with 8+ years in infrastructure delivery, experience in Nigeria, and ability to travel frequently.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience in construction, infrastructure delivery, engineering, or technical program management
- at least 3 years leading teams or complex programs
- demonstrable hands-on field delivery experience
- Proven track record delivering multiple technically complex infrastructure projects concurrently through permitting, commissioning, and handover
- experience in Nigeria
- Direct experience interacting with Nigerian regulatory bodies (aviation or infrastructure) and securing site permits/approvals for regulated projects
- Practical, demonstrable experience managing contractors and on-site civil, electrical, and communications works
- driving commissioning to measurable acceptance criteria and defect thresholds
- Strong program management discipline: integrated schedules, resource and contingency planning, budget ownership, risk register management, and decisiveness to make program tradeoffs
- Metrics-driven: able to define, track, and report binary launch milestones, schedule variance, budget variance, and basic reliability/quality metrics at handover
- Comfortable operating in high-intensity, ambiguous field environments with variable site conditions and supply-chain constraints
- able and willing to spend significant time on active sites
- Excellent stakeholder management
- clear written and verbal communication with technical, regulatory, community, and executive partners
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently across Nigeria
- must be based in or able to relocate to Nigeria for the role
- Legal authorization to work in Nigeria
- Must be a licensed civil engineer
Desired Qualifications
- experience in Nigeria strongly preferred
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