Senior Electrical Engineering Leader: Portfolio Delivery

Buro Happold Limited; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 400,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Attractive salary and benefits package

Continuous development programme

Two professional memberships

Job summary

Buro Happold seeks an Associate Director in Electrical Engineering to lead a project portfolio in the Riyadh Buildings practice. You will translate business objectives into technical delivery, manage resources, and build strong client relationships to ensure sustainable performance across major programmes.

The role requires senior leadership, chartered registration, and a track record of delivering complex multidisciplinary projects in Saudi Arabia and the wider region.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline as required for professional registration.
• Demonstrated leadership of a substantial engineering team, complex project portfolio or major multidisciplinary programme.
• Strong technical judgement across electrical building services systems and ability to direct specialist input.
• Experience establishing technical assurance and overseeing delivery through project leaders.
• Proven capability in portfolio forecasting, fee development, resource planning and commercial recovery.
• Experience developing strategic client relationships and leading technically credible bids within delegated authority.
• Strong understanding of Saudi Arabian delivery conditions, regulatory interfaces and authority requirements.
• Evidence of developing leaders, strengthening team capability and planning succession.
• Saudi Council of Engineers registration or accreditation appropriate to activities undertaken.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agreed electrical project portfolio or major programme, overseeing quality, delivery, client outcomes and commercial results.
• Set portfolio delivery and assurance arrangements, assigning responsibilities and aligning reviews with complexity and risk.
• Provide senior technical direction on complex electrical strategies and significant decisions within delegated authority.
• Oversee major technical, regulatory and delivery risks, ensuring mitigation, escalation and specialist support.
• Lead workforce and resource planning, balancing capability, capacity, demand and development needs.
• Manage portfolio forecasts, fee performance, resourcing costs and commercial exposure, agreeing corrective action with project leaders.
• Develop strategic client relationships and resolve escalated delivery, technical and commercial issues.
• Lead significant bids and fee proposals, establishing scope, assumptions, exclusions, resources and delivery commitments.
• Embed sustainability, resilience, maintainability, adaptability and whole-life value in project strategies and reviews.
• Develop Associates and Senior Engineers through coaching, succession planning and performance management.
• Coordinate across disciplines and regional teams to secure specialist capability and improve multidisciplinary delivery.
• Sponsor improvements in technical standards, digital engineering, assurance and lessons learned across the practice.

Skills

Leadership

Technical judgment

Portfolio forecasting

Strategic client relationships

Digital workflows evaluation

Team development

Regulatory and technical governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Saudi Council of Engineers registration

Professional membership (IET/CIBSE)

Chartered Engineer status or equivalent

Job description

Buro Happold seeks an Associate Director in Electrical Engineering to lead a project portfolio in the Riyadh Buildings practice. You will translate business objectives into technical delivery, manage resources, and build strong client relationships to ensure sustainable performance across major programmes.

The role requires senior leadership, chartered registration, and a track record of delivering complex multidisciplinary projects in Saudi Arabia and the wider region.