Senior Metro Operations & Maintenance Lead

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks a Lead Operation and Maintenance specialist for metro systems. You will oversee operability and maintainability from design through commissioning, ensuring signaling, rolling stock, track, and associated systems meet contractual and international railway standards.

Extensive international project experience is required. The role entails reviewing contractor submissions, coordinating with OCC and design teams, and delivering weekly progress

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in a relevant engineering, railway, transportation, operations, or technical discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience in metro Operation and Maintenance.
• Experience across automatic metro line projects and across multiple countries.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical reviews of Operation and Maintenance documentation submitted by contractors.
• Prepare structured review reports in accordance with project schedules, quality procedures, and contractual requirements.
• Assess contractor designs for operability, maintainability, and railway system requirements.
• Report non-compliance, technical deviations, unresolved issues, and submission risks during design progress meetings.
• Escalate significant concerns to the Package Manager, System Manager, and Design Manager.
• Prepare weekly progress reports covering Operation and Maintenance activities, risks, and required actions.
• Organize technical workshops with contractors to identify gaps and establish corrective actions.
• Monitor contractor response times and ensure revised submissions are provided within schedules.
• Act as the Engineer's Operation and Maintenance specialist advising the Employer on metro system matters.
• Review operability and maintainability requirements for subsystems and interfaces.
• Translate railway operating requirements into design criteria for subsystems.
• Provide operational constraints and maintenance requirements to system designers.
• Confirm subsystem designs remain compatible with overall metro concepts.
• Verify traceability between requirements, design, verification, and compliance.
• Define technical actions where requirements are unclear or incomplete.
• Prepare technical requests and monitor closeout.

Skills

Metro Operation and Maintenance

Automatic metro systems

Railway operations

Operations Control Centre

OCC operations

Metro line operations

Operability assessment

Maintainability assessment

System assurance

Requirements management

Requirements traceability

Design review

Design change management

Rolling stock

Railway signaling

Track systems

Electromechanical systems

Civil infrastructure interfaces

Factory Acceptance Testing

Operational Scenario Testing

OST

Testing and commissioning

Train operations during construction

Operational readiness

Maintenance readiness

Education

Degree or diploma in relevant engineering/railway/transportation/operations/technical discipline

Job description

Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks a Lead Operation and Maintenance specialist for metro systems. You will oversee operability and maintainability from design through commissioning, ensuring signaling, rolling stock, track, and associated systems meet contractual and international railway standards.

Extensive international project experience is required. The role entails reviewing contractor submissions, coordinating with OCC and design teams, and delivering weekly progress