Senior Road Engineer - Roadway Design
Parsons
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Job summary
Parsons Corporation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeks a Senior Road Engineer - Roadway Design with 12+ years of overall experience and 7+ years in roadway design. You will lead technical reviews, verify calculations, and ensure compliance with AASHTO criteria while coordinating with clients, stakeholders, and authorities on major transportation projects.
The role emphasizes constructability, cost estimates, permit support, and value engineering to deliver high-quality roadway solutions for complex
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.
- Minimum 12 years of total professional experience.
- At least 7 years of directly relevant roadway design or highway engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of roadway geometry, design criteria, calculations, and specifications.
- Familiarity with AASHTO roadway design requirements.
- Experience coordinating with clients and regulatory authorities.
Responsibilities
- Perform detailed technical reviews of roadway design plans and drawings.
- Review roadway design calculations for accuracy and compliance with criteria.
- Examine roadway specifications for consistency with project requirements.
- Review construction cost estimates and identify discrepancies.
- Prepare and monitor comment resolution sheets during design reviews.
- Coordinate with designers, clients, and authorities on project requirements.
- Provide guidance on design alternatives and resolutions.
- Attend stakeholder meetings to explain design concepts and constraints.
- Support permit and approval processes with regulatory authorities.
- Contribute to value engineering to improve cost, constructability, and performance.
- Maintain technical records of reviews, meetings, and resolutions.
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Job description
Role: Senior Road Engineer - Roadway Design
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Civil & Structural Engineering
Experience: 12 years total with 7 years relevant experience
Job Type: Full-time
Senior Road Engineer - Roadway Design in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Civil Engineering opportunity for an experienced roadway design professional with strong expertise in technical reviews, AASHTO criteria, design calculations, specifications, construction cost estimates, stakeholder coordination, and regulatory approvals. The role focuses on ensuring roadway designs are technically sound, compliant with project requirements, constructible, and aligned with client and authority expectations across major infrastructure developments.
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Civil & Structural Engineering
Salary: 22000-32000 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
The Senior Road Engineer provides technical leadership during the design development and review of roadway infrastructure. The position evaluates drawings, calculations, specifications, and cost estimates while coordinating closely with designers, clients, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities. By resolving technical issues early and applying established roadway design standards, the role helps reduce design risk, improve constructability, support permitting, and maintain high engineering quality throughout project development.
- Perform detailed technical reviews of roadway design plans and engineering drawings.
- Review roadway design calculations to verify technical accuracy, assumptions, and compliance with applicable criteria.
- Examine roadway specifications for consistency with project requirements and accepted engineering standards.
- Review construction cost estimates associated with roadway works and identify technical or scope-related discrepancies.
- Prepare, maintain, and monitor comment resolution sheets throughout the design review process.
- Track outstanding technical comments and ensure responses are properly addressed and closed.
- Meet with designers and client representatives to confirm project requirements and design criteria.
- Collaborate with design teams to improve roadway solutions and resolve engineering challenges.
- Provide clear technical guidance when design alternatives or modifications are being considered.
- Attend stakeholder meetings and explain roadway design concepts, constraints, and engineering considerations.
- Coordinate with regulatory authorities and support the technical aspects of permit and approval processes.
- Participate in value engineering workshops to identify practical improvements in cost, constructability, and performance.
- Review alternative roadway design solutions from technical and operational perspectives.
- Conduct site visits to assess existing conditions and verify that proposed designs are appropriate for the project environment.
- Identify site constraints that may affect roadway geometry, drainage interfaces, access, utilities, or construction methodology.
- Meet directly with designers to explain technical review comments and agree appropriate resolutions.
- Ensure technical comments are clear, justified, and based on applicable engineering criteria.
- Support multidisciplinary coordination where roadway design interfaces with structures, utilities, drainage, landscape, or other infrastructure systems.
- Maintain accurate technical records related to design reviews, comments, meetings, and agreed resolutions.
- Contribute engineering input during project coordination and design development meetings.
- Help ensure roadway designs remain consistent with approved project scope, standards, and client objectives.
- Perform additional technical responsibilities associated with roadway engineering and infrastructure design as required.
- Bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering.
- Minimum 12 years of total professional experience.
- At least 7 years of directly relevant roadway design or highway engineering experience.
- Strong working knowledge of roadway geometry, design criteria, calculations, and technical specifications.
- Practical understanding of AASHTO roadway design requirements.
- Experience reviewing roadway drawings and design packages prepared by consultants or engineering teams.
- Ability to assess design calculations and identify technical inconsistencies or missing information.
- Experience reviewing construction cost estimates from an engineering perspective.
- Familiarity with design comment management and structured review processes.
- Strong understanding of constructability and the relationship between design intent and site conditions.
- Experience coordinating with clients, consultants, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities.
- Previous involvement with Riyadh Municipality projects is an advantage.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Confident interpersonal approach when discussing technical issues with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to explain complex engineering matters clearly during meetings and reviews.
- Working knowledge of computer software commonly used in roadway design and engineering coordination.
- Roadway design
- Highway engineering
- AASHTO criteria
- Civil engineering
- Road geometry
- Horizontal alignment review
- Vertical alignment review
- Roadway design calculations
- Technical drawing review
- Engineering specification review
- Construction cost estimate review
- Design criteria development
- Design comment resolution
- Technical compliance review
- Value engineering
- Constructability review
- Site assessment
- Road infrastructure
- Stakeholder coordination
- Client coordination
- Regulatory authority coordination
- Permit support
- Design quality assurance
- Technical documentation
- Multidisciplinary coordination
- Roadway design software
- Engineering review
- Infrastructure design
- Riyadh Municipality coordination
- Technical meeting support
This position offers the opportunity to contribute senior roadway engineering expertise to major infrastructure development in Riyadh, where continued investment in transportation networks is creating sustained demand for experienced Civil Engineering professionals. The role provides substantial involvement in technical decision-making, design quality, stakeholder engagement, value engineering, and authority coordination while offering a progression path toward lead engineering, design management, and broader infrastructure leadership responsibilities.
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, construction management, project controls, and technology services across major programs worldwide. Its Saudi Arabia operations support complex transportation and infrastructure developments, providing experienced engineers with opportunities to contribute to technically demanding projects and multidisciplinary urban development programs.
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