Senior Engineering Manager - Technical Assurance

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 502,000 - 725,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation seeks a Senior Engineering Manager - Technical Assurance in Riyadh to lead multidisciplinary design integration, governance, stage-gate assurance and construction readiness for major infrastructure delivery.

The role oversees complex packages from design to handover, ensuring safety, compliance and value across civil, structural, MEP, utilities and ICT interfaces in Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Civil/Structural/Mechanical/Electrical/Architectural Eng or related field.
• Master's degree in Engineering/PM/CEM or MBA preferred.
• Professional registration or chartership advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Direct multidisciplinary engineering activities from design through handover.
• Establish engineering delivery strategies, governance, and schedules.
• Coordinate interfaces across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, roads, utilities.
• Lead technical reviews through concept to handover stages.
• Ensure design maturity, constructability, and procurement readiness.
• Maintain traceability, risk registers and stage-gate documentation.
• Mentor engineering managers and discipline engineers.
• Support engineering change control and supplier evaluations.

Skills

Multidisciplinary management

Technical assurance

Design management

Engineering governance

Stage-gate assurance

Constructability reviews

Value engineering

Handover management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil/Structural/Mechanical/Electrical/Architectural Eng

Master's degree preferred

Tools

BIM

Navisworks

Revit

Primavera P6

Aconex

SharePoint

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager - Technical Assurance Job Snapshot Role: Senior Engineering Manager - Technical Assurance Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Engineering Function: Engineering General Experience: 15 years of progressive engineering and project delivery experience, including 7 years in senior leadership Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Senior Engineering Manager - Technical Assurance in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Engineering opportunity overseeing multidisciplinary design integration, technical governance, stage-gate assurance, construction readiness, digital engineering, and infrastructure delivery. Parsons Corporation is hiring an experienced engineering leader to coordinate complex multi-package programs from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and final asset handover.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Engineering Function: Engineering General Salary: 45000-65000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Senior Engineering Manager will operate within a Delivery Partner governance structure, providing technical leadership without replacing the professional responsibilities of appointed designers or contractors. The role will establish the controls required to move complex infrastructure packages through design maturity, statutory approvals, procurement, construction release, testing, commissioning and handover. Success will depend on maintaining visibility across technical risks, interfaces, decisions, information dependencies, and stage-gate requirements so that project leadership can act before engineering constraints affect cost, schedule, safety, or operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct multidisciplinary engineering activities across assigned infrastructure and development packages from early design through handover.
• Establish engineering delivery strategies, design-management plans, technical governance arrangements, approval matrices, and deliverable schedules.
• Coordinate civil, structural, architectural, MEP, roads, drainage, utilities, ICT, security, landscape, mobility, logistics and specialist engineering interfaces.
• Verify engineering deliverables against approved scope, Employer 's Requirements, design criteria, specifications, Saudi Arabian regulations, authority requirements, and program milestones.
• Lead structured technical reviews through concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC, construction support, commissioning and handover stages.
• Assess submissions for design completeness, constructability, maintainability, accessibility, resilience, operational suitability and procurement readiness.
• Challenge technically incomplete, uncoordinated, non-compliant or impractical proposals before they create downstream project exposure.
• Establish design verification, independent checking, peer review, compliance certification and specialist assurance requirements.
• Drive value engineering assessments that improve whole-life value while preserving required safety, performance and operational outcomes.
• Maintain requirements-traceability records, technical decision registers, design-risk registers and auditable engineering assurance evidence.
• Establish a regular governance cadence covering engineering coordination, interface reviews, design risk, progress and executive technical decisions.
• Define engineering entry and exit requirements for applicable program stage gates.
• Lead stage-gate readiness reviews and recommend progression, conditional progression, hold or escalation within delegated authority.
• Maintain visibility of stage-gate deficiencies, accountable owners, recovery actions and target closure dates.
• Ensure conditions, waivers, exceptions, residual risks and technical decisions are formally recorded and appropriately approved.
• Prepare concise engineering dashboards, stage-gate submissions, executive presentations, decision papers and technical risk summaries.
• Support procurement by developing technically robust scopes, tender requirements, clarification responses, technical evaluations and recommendations.
• Review technical submissions, design changes, deviations and value engineering proposals and recommend appropriate action.
• Coordinate engineering issues with Project Management, Commercial, Contracts, Planning, Project Controls, Quality, HSE, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Document Control.
• Identify technical matters carrying potential cost, time scope, procurement, entitlement or claims implications and provide timely technical substantiation.
• Maintain a technical change log covering rationale, approvals, interfaces, implementation requirements and cost or schedule assessment status.
• Escalate significant non-compliance, safety concerns, unresolved interfaces, authority constraints and program-critical engineering risks.
• Serve as a senior technical interface between the Client, Parsons, designers, contractors, supervision teams, utilities, authorities, asset owners and other delivery partners.
• Lead resolution of complex cross-package interfaces involving shared infrastructure, utility corridors, diversions, access, logistics, temporary works, tie-ins and operational requirements.
• Maintain interface registers, responsibility matrices, assumptions logs, action trackers and technical decision records.
• Coordinate statutory and utility approval requirements while supporting responsible parties in obtaining permits, NOCs, approvals and service agreements.
• Align engineering solutions with construction sequencing, work-front release, logistics, procurement, testing, commissioning and handover needs.
• Review RFIs, shop drawings, material and technical submittals, field changes, design clarifications and contractor proposals through approved workflows.
• Monitor design maturity and construction-ready information to protect procurement and site activities from late technical decisions.
• Support resolution of non-conformances, deviations, field changes and commissioning issues while preserving approved design intent.
• Lead integration of BIM, digital engineering and information-management requirements across engineering delivery.
• Maintain alignment with Employer Information Requirements, BIM Execution Plans, Common Data Environment procedures and ISO 19650 principles where adopted.
• Drive coordinated use of discipline models, federated models, drawings, schedules, technical documentation and asset information.
• Use model coordination to identify clashes, access restrictions, maintenance clearances, utility conflicts and constructability issues before construction.
• Coordinate 3D models and, where applicable, 4D sequencing and 5D cost information to expose delivery risks earlier.
• Ensure engineering information supports commissioning, operational readiness, record models, asset data and final handover.
• Contribute technical dependencies, approval periods, procurement lead times, construction releases and commissioning milestones to the integrated master schedule.
• Challenge program logic where design maturity, technical sequencing or approval dates cannot support practical delivery.
• Develop engineering recovery plans for delayed submissions, approvals, interfaces and critical technical decisions.
• Monitor designers, consultants, contractors and specialist subcontractors against staffing, quality, schedule, scope and technical performance requirements.
• Track RFI ageing, design maturity, comment closure, authority status, interface health, engineering risk and recovery performance.
• Incorporate operational readiness, maintainability, reliability, resilience, accessibility, security, lifecycle cost and asset-management requirements from early design stages.
• Coordinate with operations, facilities management, security, ICT, commissioning, mobility and asset-information stakeholders before design freeze.
• Support testing, integrated systems testing, training, O and M documentation, warranties, record information and asset handover requirements.
• Lead and mentor engineering managers, discipline engineers, interface managers, design managers and technical coordinators.
• Plan engineering resources around critical design periods, construction interfaces and major technical decisions.
• Support technical audits, engineering assurance reviews, quality assessments and continuous improvement initiatives.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Architectural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience across engineering, design management, technical assurance, construction management or project delivery.
• At least 7 years of experience in senior engineering management or leadership.
• Master 's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or Business Administration is preferred.
• Professional engineering registration, chartership or equivalent recognized membership is advantageous.
• Strong delivery record across major infrastructure, mixed-use, transport, utilities, commercial, residential, hospitality, entertainment or master-planned development programs.
• Experience with large, multi-package, fast-track programs in Saudi Arabia or the GCC is highly valuable.
• Background in Client-side, Delivery Partner, PMC, consultant, contractor, Engineer 's Representative or Design-Build environments.
• Demonstrated capability managing multidisciplinary interfaces across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and handover.
• Strong knowledge of design management, technical assurance, construction methodologies, constructability, utilities, logistics temporary works interfaces and authority approvals.
• Experience with PMO or program governance, stage-gate assurance, portfolio risk tracking and executive technical reporting.
• Strong understanding of contract administration, technical change control, interface management and procurement support.
• Working knowledge of BIM, digital engineering, Common Data Environments, model coordination and asset-information handover.
• Able to distinguish material engineering risks from routine coordination matters and establish proportionate responses.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, reporting, stakeholder-management and decision-making capability.

Skills Set

• Multidisciplinary engineering management
• Technical assurance
• Design management
• Engineering governance
• Stage-gate assurance
• Design verification
• Requirements traceability
• Interface management
• Design risk management
• Constructability reviews
• Value engineering
• Technical change control
• Engineering procurement support
• Construction readiness
• Authority approvals
• Utility coordination
• BIM
• Digital engineering
• ISO 19650
• Common Data Environment
• Autodesk Construction Cloud
• BIM 360
• Navisworks
• Revit
• Primavera P6
• Aconex
• SharePoint
• 3D model coordination
• 4D sequencing
• 5D cost integration
• Technical reporting
• Engineering dashboards
• Commissioning integration
• Operational readiness
• Asset information
• Handover management
• Engineering team leadership

Why Join Us

Riyadh 's large-scale infrastructure and development programs require engineering leaders capable of controlling technical complexity across multiple packages, disciplines, contractors, and delivery stages. This role offers portfolio-level influence over design maturity, technical assurance, digital engineering, construction readiness, commissioning and major project decisions. It provides an opportunity to lead multidisciplinary teams while strengthening the engineering governance required for reliable delivery across Saudi Arabia 's growing Engineering sector.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, program management and technology solutions for complex projects worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, its Delivery Partner teams support major development programs through multidisciplinary engineering leadership, technical assurance, digital integration, project governance and coordinated delivery from design through final asset handover.