Technical Site Support Lead - Airport Delivery
Parsons
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Job summary
Parsons is hiring a Technical Site Support Lead - Airport Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role provides multidisciplinary engineering support across terminals, runways, taxiways, and support facilities, acting as the bridge between design and construction to ensure accurate information flow and approvals.
The ideal candidate will coordinate responses, manage interfaces, review changes, and support installation through handover and operational readiness, with broad responsibility for
Qualifications
- Degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 15 years in construction engineering, site tech support, or delivery management.
- Experience on airport projects and major infrastructure programs.
- Familiar with ICAO/FAA/Airport requirements preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead site-based engineering support for construction work fronts and project zones.
- Coordinate responses with designers, contractors, and authorities.
- Review RFIs, site queries, and design questions from a construction perspective.
- Maintain issue tracker and drive outstanding matters to closeout.
- Support testing, commissioning, and handover for operational readiness.
- Coordinate interfaces between civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical works.
- Facilitate technical meetings with contractors, consultants, and stakeholders.
- Ensure delivery teams receive drawings, clarifications, and approvals.
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Job description
Role: Technical Site Support Lead - Airport Delivery
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function: Engineering
General Experience: Minimum 15 years
Job Type: Full-time
Parsons is hiring a Technical Site Support Lead - Airport Delivery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a major development within the Airlines/Aviation industry. The lead will provide multidisciplinary engineering support across airport terminals, runways, taxiways, aircraft aprons, cargo facilities, utilities, and operational infrastructure. Acting as the main technical connection between design and construction, the successful candidate will coordinate responses to site queries, resolve interfaces, review proposed changes, and ensure construction teams receive accurate information and approvals. The role extends through installation, testing, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover.
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function: Engineering
General Salary: 30000-45000 SAR per month
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Airport construction involves constant interaction between buildings, airfield pavements, lighting, utilities, specialist technology, security, and operational systems. Unresolved technical questions or incomplete design information can delay work fronts and create quality, cost, safety, or commissioning risks. The Technical Site Support Lead will establish a responsive engineering service for delivery teams. Timely decisions, structured issue tracking, and practical site-based recommendations will help maintain construction momentum while protecting approved design intent and regulatory compliance.
- Lead site-based engineering support for construction work fronts and project zones.
- Guide site engineers, construction managers, inspectors, contractors, and technical coordinators.
- Serve as the primary engineering focal point for site challenges and coordination issues.
- Ensure delivery teams receive the required drawings, clarifications, approvals, and technical input.
- Support the delivery partner in achieving construction and operational-readiness objectives.
- Manage technical issues raised during construction, installation, and fit-out activities.
- Review requests for information, site queries, design questions, and technical clarifications.
- Coordinate timely responses with design consultants and engineering disciplines.
- Maintain an issue tracker and drive outstanding matters through effective closeout.
- Identify recurring problems and recommend preventive improvements.
- Review drawings, specifications, technical submissions, and design changes from a construction perspective.
- Confirm that design requirements are correctly understood and implemented on site.
- Coordinate constructability matters between designers and construction teams.
- Evaluate proposed alternatives, substitutions, departures, and technical deviations.
- Support value-engineering proposals without compromising safety, quality, compliance, or performance.
- Manage interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, and electrical works.
- Coordinate ICT, ELV, airfield, airfield-ground-lighting, utility, and infrastructure systems.
- Facilitate technical meetings involving contractors, consultants, specialists, and stakeholders.
- Resolve clashes, sequencing constraints, access conflicts, and system-interface issues.
- Maintain technical alignment across all project disciplines.
- Provide engineering support during testing, commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.
- Participate in site inspections, technical walkthroughs, and completion reviews.
- Review contractor method statements, shop drawings, material submissions, and construction proposals.
- Verify that construction complies with approved designs, specifications, and project requirements.
- Support quality teams in resolving technical non-conformances.
- Review inspection records, test results, root causes, and proposed corrective measures.
- Participate in technical audits, quality reviews, and delivery assessments.
- Coordinate with clients, airport authorities, contractors, subcontractors, and specialist suppliers.
- Provide recommendations supporting project and management decisions.
- Escalate critical technical matters with clear evidence and proposed solutions.
- Identify engineering risks affecting cost, schedule, quality, safety, or operational performance.
- Lead constructability reviews and provide practical site-based advice.
- Assess the consequences of design changes and technical decisions.
- Support mitigation plans, corrective actions, and schedule-recovery measures.
- Capture lessons learned and promote improvements across work packages.
- Prepare technical reports, status summaries, issue registers, and progress updates.
- Maintain records of queries, decisions, approvals, and technical resolutions.
- Support preparation of project closeout files and handover documentation.
- Degree in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in construction engineering, site technical support, engineering coordination, or delivery management.
- Proven involvement in major airport, aviation, transportation, infrastructure, or large-scale construction programs.
- Experience supporting airport terminals, runways, taxiways, aircraft aprons, cargo areas, and operational facilities.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure, utility, building, airfield, and specialist-system interfaces.
- Background working in client, project-management consultancy, engineer, or delivery-partner roles.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical issues across design and construction teams.
- Experience coordinating consultants, contractors, suppliers, and airport stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of technical governance, constructability, interface control, and construction risk.
- Ability to communicate complex engineering matters clearly to technical and management audiences.
- Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or equivalent registration is preferred.
- International airport-development or expansion experience would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of ICAO, FAA, and aviation-infrastructure requirements is desirable.
- Experience working under FIDIC or a comparable contract framework is preferred.
- Familiarity with Design-Build, EPC, and project-management consultancy delivery models is beneficial.
- Experience with BIM, digital engineering, and common data environments is desirable.
- Airport technical support
- Construction-engineering coordination
- Site-query management
- Request-for-information review
- Design and construction interfaces
- Multidisciplinary engineering
- Airport-terminal construction
- Runway and taxiway interfaces
- Aircraft-apron infrastructure
- Cargo-facility delivery
- Airfield-ground-lighting systems
- ICT and ELV coordination
- Utility-interface management
- Shop-drawing review
- Material-submittal review
- Technical-deviation assessment
- Constructability reviews
- Value engineering
- Testing and commissioning
- Operational readiness
- Technical non-conformance resolution
- Construction-risk management
- FIDIC contracts
- ICAO requirements
- FAA requirements
- BIM coordination
- Digital engineering
- Common data environments
- Technical issue tracking
- Handover documentation
This opportunity provides technical leadership across the full range of facilities and systems required for a major airport development. The role offers broad exposure to construction, design coordination, specialist aviation infrastructure, commissioning, and operational readiness. It creates a strong pathway toward engineering-management, technical-director, and airport-delivery leadership within Saudi Arabia's expanding Airlines/Aviation market.
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, construction supervision, systems integration, and program-management services for complex airport and infrastructure developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients resolve technical challenges and achieve safe, coordinated, and operationally ready assets.
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